680 COLEOPTERA. 



from the antennae to tlie back of the head. Tliorax of about equal 

 length and breadth, of the same shape as that of Q. maorinus ; along 

 each side of the n^iddle there are three or four j)unctures, two outside 

 these, the front margin bipunctate, three or four on each side, and as 

 many at each side of the base, all but the discal ones are very small. 

 Scutellum large. Elytra subquadrate, slightly broader than long, each 

 oblique towards the suture ; they are finely punctate, with depressed, 

 slender, dark ashy pubescence. Hind-body elongate, with black terminal 

 appendages, its sculpture indistinct, the clothing like that of the wing- 

 cases. Hind-body longer than from head to apices of elytra, last segment 

 slightly tapering, subtruncate at extremity. Terminal appendages long. 

 Antennae reaching back to the middle of thorax, clothed with fine dark 

 pubescence, similar in colouring to the elytra ; basal joint long, third 

 not as long as first, second half as long as third, fourth not quite as broad 

 as fifth. Joints 6-10 broad and of equal length, terminal longer than 

 the preceding and tapering. Anterior tarsi castaneous, the four basal 

 joints slightly expanded. 



Length, 13 mm. ; breadth, 2-5 mm. 



Taken at Lake Ohia, North Auckland, with Q. opiatus, by A. E. Brookes 

 on the 18th February, 1918. 



4274. Quedius slipsensis sp. nov. 



Elongate, subdepressed ; head and thorax nitid, aeneo-niger, with a 

 few slender, erect, dark setae ; elytra, hind -body, legs, palpi, and basal 

 three joints of antennae castaneous, remaining joints of these last more 

 infuscate ; elytra and hind-body clothed with subdepressed yellowish 

 pubescence. 



Head oviform, as long as thorax but evidently narrower, distinctly 

 bipunctate alongside each eye, and obliquely so between each of the latter 

 and the base ; clypeus medially emarginate and fringed with flavescent 

 hairs in front. Eyes hardly at all convex, half the length of the head. 

 Antennae equalling the head and thorax in length, with blackish pubes- 

 cence, basal joint evidently longer than second or third, fourth and fifth 

 rather longer than 6-10, which are subquadrate, the terminal elongate- 

 conical. Thorax very little longer than broad, gently narrowed towards 

 the obtuse depressed anterior angles, the base and its angles somewhat 

 rounded , disc moderately bipunctate before the middle, quadripunctate 

 at the base. Scutellum large, triangular, closely punctured. Elytra 

 quite as long as broad, slightly narrowed towards the base, not broader 

 than thorax there, apices oblique towards the suture, their punctation 

 rather fine and shallow. Hind-body nearly half of the whole length, finely 

 punctate, last segment strongly rounded behind, terminal appendages 

 elongate. Anterior tarsi only moderately expanded. 



Nearly allied to Q.fuscatus (1839), but readily separable by the entirely 

 nigrescent head and thorax, differently formed antennae, less distinct 

 elytral sculpture, &c. 



Length, 6i mm. ; breadth, H mm. 



Mount Slips, Nelson. Unique. Captured by the late Mr. T. Hall on 

 the 24th December, 1915. 



