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length and breadtli, Tth and 8tli latlicr shorter, 9tli and lOth transversely 

 quadrate, laxly articiUated, the terminal, with its broad apical appendage, 

 conical. 



After comparison with the descriptions of twelve species, the types of 

 which are in the British Museum, and ten allied species in my own collec- 

 tion, this proves to be distinct from any of them. An examination of the 

 form and sculpture of the head, below as well as above, and of the nearly 

 equally stout antennal joints, will lead to its recognition. It belongs to 

 section v, according to my arrangement. 



<$. Length, 3 mm. ; breadth, * mm. 

 [ Routeburn, north of Lake Wakatipu ; 19th February, 1914. One 

 perfect and one damaged male found by Mr. T. Hall. 



3829. Sagola hectorii sp. nov. 



Robust, subdepressed, shining ; rufous, legs and antennae rather paler, 

 tarsi and palpi flavescent ; thinly clothed with slender, elongate, princi- 

 pally erect, yellowish hairs. 



Head trigonal, its hind angles extending straight outwards a little 

 farther than the widest part of the thorax and feebly depressed at the 

 extremity ; antennal tubercles somewhat elevated and separated by a 

 distinct groove in front ; median channel deep and angular, prolonged as 

 iar as the back of the eyes, narrowed there, occipital foveae elongate but 

 indefinite ; eyes moderately large and prominent. Thorax shghtly broader^ 

 than long, widest just before the middle ; median fovea subrotundate, base 

 l)ipunctate, lateral foveae deep, hardly extending forwards as far as the 

 middle. Elytra about a third broader than long, narrowed towards the 

 base, yet rather wider than the thorax there ; sutural striae well marked, 

 with a basal puncture near each, the dorsal apparently entire, short, 

 scarcely prolonged to the middle, the suture minutely punctate. Hind- 

 body evidently longer than elytra, 1st visible segment shorter than follow- 

 ing ones, with simple pubescence, 5th obtusely triangular. 



Underside shining, its pubescence yellow. Head with a transverse 

 groove in front of the eyes, its central portion depressed and fiat but with 

 distinctly elevated lateral borders, the hind angles only feebly impressed. 

 Abdomen finely and indistinctly punctate, 2nd segment shorter than the 

 three following ones, which are subequal, 6th almost as long as 5th, 

 truncate behind, Tth obtusely triangular, its operculum indistinct. 



Legs and antennae similar to those of 2724 {S. eminens), but in other 

 respects very different. S. anqulifcr (3363), another Auckland species, is 

 the nearest ally, but in it the head is gradually expanded behind the eyes, 

 and the extremity of its angles is convex or obtusely subtuberculate ; the 

 frontal channel is prolonged as an obvious stria right to the back of the 

 head : there are no basal punctures between the sutural and dorsal striae 

 of the elytra ; the 1st joint of the antennae is longer and thinner, and 

 the 7th ventral segment is oblong and rather narrow. 



S- Length, 2| mm. ; breadth, | mm. 



Belgrove, near Nelson. Another of Mr. T. Hall's numerous discoveries ; 

 7th November, 1914. This notable species is dedicated to the late Sir 

 James Hector, as a substitute for 2740, which proves to be merely a 

 varietal form of Bryaxis diversa. 



