500 COLEOPTERA. 



Head underneath with a distinct punctiform depression at each side 

 near the base of the mentuni and an intervening transverse groove, a 

 shallow fovea at each hind angle, and a broad flat space across the middle, 

 the basal portion is broadly depressed and thinly pubescent. Ventral 

 segments 2-4 slightly increase, fifth a little shorter ; sixth short, truncate 

 behind, seventh obtusely triangular, the operculum large and broad. 



S. fascicv.lata, from Glenhope, is similarly bipunctate near the base of 

 the mentum, but otherwise is very different and referable to another section. 



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



Mount Algidus, Canterbury. A solitary specimen found by Mr. T. Hall 

 on the 25th October, 1913. 



4012. Sagola affinis sp. nov. 



Nitid, head and thorax infuscate-red, elytra, hind-body, and antennae 

 castaneo-rufous, legs paler, tarsi and palpi flavescent ; pubescence yellow, 

 elongate and suberect. 



Head obliquely narrowed anteriorly, almost straight behind, its obtuse 

 angles as wide as the prominent eyes ; frontal channel moderately broad 

 and deep, it is continued as far back as the eyes, but is not perceptibly 

 narrowed till near the extremity of the slightly raised tubercles, which do 

 not touch each other in front ; occipital foveae free and subangular. 

 Thorax slightly longer than broad, widest before the middle ; lateral foveae 

 deep and extending to the middle, the median one subquadrate but not 

 uniting with the small basal punctures. Elytra scarcely any longer than 

 broad, a third longer than thorax, slightly narrowed before the middle ; 

 sutural striae deep, simple, with a basal puncture alongside each, the dorsal 

 consist of a basal puncture and elongate impression but do not attain the 

 middle. Hind-body as long as elytra, not quite as broad at the base, 

 terminal segments obtusely triangular, second and third subequal, the first 

 shorter and covered with minute brassy squamae. Legs elongate and 

 moderately slender ; posterior tibiae obliquely narrowed near the outer 

 extremity and closely ciliate there. 



Antennae as long as the head and thorax, moderately slender ; basal 

 joint not double the length of the thick oviform second, third nearly as 

 long but more slender, fourth and fifth oblong-oval ; joints 6-8 slightly 

 shorter and broader, ninth and tenth transverse and laxly articulated, 

 eleventh subcorneal. 



This species belongs to Section V, but the underside, including the head, 

 is similar to that of S. bipuncticeps. The posterior angles of the head, 

 however, though as wide as the thorax, are not wider than the eyes, the 

 form therefore is not trigonal ; the frontal channel is less narrowed between 

 the tubercles, the thorax is slightly longer, and the dorsal striae of the elytra 

 are shorter and consist of two impressions only. 



(J. Length, 2J mm. ; breadth, | mm. 



Mount Algidus. Unique. Found by Mr. T. Hall on the 25th October, 

 1913. 



4013. Sagola planipennis sp. nov. 



Shininy;, elongate, rather narrow and flat, elvtra and hind-bodv sub- 

 parallel ; castaneo-rufous, antennae paler, legs fusco-testaceous, tarsi and 

 palpi flavescent ; clothed with greyish-yellow, subdepressed pubescence. 



Head rather smaller than thorax, obliquely narrow^ed in front of the 

 moderately small, slightly jirominent eyes, nearly straight behind them, 



