a7id species of PselaphidcE and Scydmcenida: 507 



ventral plates equal to one another, with five visible seo-- 

 ments both above and below, but with a well-developed 

 additional basal segment visible on dissection, the ventral 

 plate of which is hornj, the dorsal plate membranous. 



Body pubescent, general fonn elongate, subdepressed, 

 very StaphylinusAikQ. This genus appears to be ex- 

 tremely close to Far onus, but the species possess a well- 

 marked process of mesosternum sejmrating the middle 

 coxfe, of which there is no trace in Farojius Lafertei: the 

 frontal tubercles also are more approximate in Sagola, so 

 that the distance between the antennae at then- insertion is 

 less than in Faronus Lafertei. 



Sagola major, n. sp. Kufescens, nitida, elytris rufis ; 

 prothorace transversim cordato ; capite lato, angulis pos- 

 terioribus leviter dilatatis. Long. corp. '2\ mm. 



Mas, trochanteribus anticis prominulis acutis ; ab- 

 domine segmento 6° ventrali tuberculis duobus elevatis. 



Fern, incog. 



This species differs from S. prisca by its much broader 

 form, by its more slender antennre, the basal joint in 

 particular of these organs being notably more slender, and 

 by the more deflexed extremity of the hind body, as well 

 as by the different characters of the male. The first 

 visible dorsal segment of the hind body possesses a trans- 

 verse band of glandular pubescence, which is wanting in 

 the other species here described. 



I have seen but a single specimen of the species ; it was 

 sent to me from New Zealand by Mr. Edwards. 



Sagola prisca, n. sp. Obscure rufa, el}i:ris sanguineis, 

 capite thoraceque parce, longius, abdomine dense pubes- 

 centibus; antennis crassiusculis, articulis quatuor pcnulti- 

 mis leviter transversis ; capite anguhs posterioribus rotun- 

 datis. Long. corp. 2^ mm. 



Mas, abdomine segmentis S*', 4''que apice tubercuhs 

 duobus elongatis, 5° transversim depresso, apice emar- 

 ginato. 



Antennse with the first joint stout and elongate, 2nd 

 joint smaU, subglobular; 3rd joint similar in shape to 2nd 

 but still smaller than it; joints 4—10 differing httlc from 

 one another ; 11th joint hardly as broad as the lOt i but 

 a httle longer than it, obtusely pointed. Head small and 



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