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at any rate provisionally as congeneric. I fancy, however, that when we can 
obtain specimens for an exhaustive examination, that they will have to be 
generically separated. 
Otago. Sent by Professor Hutton in the year 1878, but only one example. 
Cillenum (?) subczecum, n. sp.—Minutissimum, testaceum, impunctatum, bre- 
Vissime setigerum; oculis minimis. Long. 1} m.m. 
Antennz very feeble, almost white; second joint elongate, longer than the 
third. Head narrow, eyes very minute, interocular grooves shallow. Thorax 
transverse, sides curved, narrowed but not sinuate behind; hind angles ex- 
tremely obtuse, median channel subobsolete, basal impressions very obscure. 
Elytra narrow, humeral angles rounded, lateral margin well marked, apices sub- 
truncate, without punctuation, but under a half-inch power appearing finely 
reticulate, studded with minute sete, especially on the lateral margins. Front 
tibize stout. 
This is one of the most minute of the Carabidee, and its almost blind condition 
renders it possible that it may be one of a group of species with subterranean habits, 
analogous to the minute European Scotodipni and Anilli. I obtained it some 
years ago from Herr Reitter, and I expect that when specimens come to hand to 
enable it to be thoroughly investigated, it will prove to be sufficiently generically 
distinct. I cannot place it in Scotodipnus nor Anillus, though it is apparently 
nearer to the former than to the latter of these two genera; and as it has some- 
what the form of the New Zealand Cillena, I associate it provisionally with them. 
The robust front legs are rather remarkable in so minute and fragile an insect, 
but do not indicate any real affinity with the Dyschirioid genus Reicheia, which 
consists also of minute blind species. 
Greymouth. Helms, ex Reitter. 
Fam. STAPHYLINIDZ. 
Apuytopus (noy. gen. Aleocharinorum). 
Tarsi omnes quinque articulati, articulis quatuor primis subequalibus, articulo 
ultimo inflato, unguiculis magnis. 
The minute insect for which I propose the above generic name can scarcely 
fail to be distinguished from all the known genera of Aleocharini by the very 
peculiar structure of the tarsi, the terminal joint being not only incrassate, but of 
peculiar shape, looking in fact as if it were a bilobed joint, and the lobes were 
folded along the middle, and their underfaces applied to one another. The large 
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