PSELAPHIDAE. 607 



intrahumoral impressions rather short and deep. Basal dorsal segment 

 transversely impressed at the base. 



Legs moderately elongate, tibiae slightly curved and expanded below 

 the middle. 



Underside nitid, fuscous, trochanters and coxae somewhat testaceous ; 

 indistinctly punctate, with greyish pubescence. Head incurved behind, 

 with a small central fovea there ; it is abruptly contracted in front of the 

 eyes, finely and closely punctate, and bearing many yellowish, slender, 

 suberect setae. 



Female unknown as yet. 



Length, 1^ mm. ; breadth, J mm. 



Near Lake Rotoiti, Nelson. Four males, found amongst decaying 

 forest-leaves by Mr. T. Hall on the 3rd June, 1916. 



BRACHYGLUTINI. 



Eupines King. Gen. Ins. (Wytsm.), Pselaphidae, p. 206. 



4172. Eupines clemens sp. no v. 



Nitid, moderately convex, impunctate, with a few short greyish hairs 

 behind ; rufous, antennae and legs paler, tarsi testaceous. 



Head somewhat curvcdly narrowed behind the moderately prominent 

 eyes, which extend outwardly almost as far as the thorax ; with a pair of 

 distinct but small interocular foveae, and a transverse frontal impression. 

 Thorax of about equal length and breadth, rather wider before the middle 

 than elsewhere, more gradually narrowed behind than in front, with a 

 transverse basal impression at each side. Elytra about double the size 

 of thorax, rather broader than it is at the base, curvedly narrowed before 

 the middle ; with distinct sutural striae, and elongate, though sometimes 

 indefinite, intrahumeral impressions. Hind-body shorter than elytra^ 

 narrowed and deflexed behind. Anterior tibiae c'urvedlv expanded in- 

 wardly, almost straight externally. 



Antennae finely pubescent, not longer than the head and thorax ; 

 basal joint hardly exceeding the oblong second in length, third nearly as 

 long but narrowed towards its base ; joints 4, 6, and 7 not longer than 

 broad, fifth rather larger yet scarcely at all oblong, eighth and ninth 

 smaller than the quite transverse tenth, the terminal large, subacuminate, 

 as long as preceding three together. 



Underside nitid, chestnut-red, minutely and distantly punctate. Meta- 

 . sternum with a large subquadrate depression not reaching the base, its 

 obtusely raised borders terminate as small tubercular elevations near the 

 inner part of the posterior coxae. Basal ventral segment covered, second 

 largest, unimpressed ; third and fourth equally short, fifth distinct at the 

 sides, invisible at the middle, sixth with a transverse median impression, 

 as long as the third and fourth combined. 



Superficially very much like Dr. Sharp's Bnjaxis grata (240), but the 

 head is less quadrate, its frontal impression and the foveae are quite 

 definite, the eyes are more prominent, the antennae are a third shorter, 

 their intermediate joints differ, so do the front tibiae, and, moreover, on 

 the underside of 240 an almost uninterrupted broad depression extends 

 from the base of the metasternum to the middle of the sixth segment. 



(J. Length, 1| mm. ; breadth, f mm. 



Glenhope and near Lake Rotoiti, Nelson. Another of Mr. T. Hall's 

 discoveries during 1915; The males rather rare. 



