164 Capt. T. Broun on new 
form and not sharply defined; near each hind angle there is 
a shallow impression, the middle of the base is scored with 
feeble longitudinal strie, and the fovew are more or less 
minutely punctured ; sometimes, however, they are smooth. 
Scutellum estriate. Elytra ovate-oblong, shoulders not denti- 
form; they are narrowed but hardly sinuate behind; their 
striz are deep, narrow, and impunctate ; the interstices plane, 
rather broad, without punctiform impressions. Legs mode- 
rately slender, posterior femora simple. 
Male.—Front tarst with sponge-like soles and lateral sete, 
the basal three joints dilated; first subtriangular, second and 
third cordiform. One setigerous puncture on each side of the 
last ventral segment ; two sete on each side of the thorax ; 
the middle and hind tarsi more or less grooved above. 
This is very different from Haptoderus maorinus, Bates, in 
many respects. P. oscillator, Sharp, has sulciform thoracic 
fovez, and the third elytral interstices bear two or three large 
punctures. 
3d. Length 44-45, breadth 14 lines, 
Ohaupo, Waikato, three examples ; Hunua Range, five. 
I have with pleasure named this species in honour of 
Dr. David Sharp. <A typical specimen has been sent to the 
British Museum. 
Group Bembidiide. 
Anillus phyllobius, sp. n. 
Subdepressed, slightly nitid, fulvescent ; legs pale yellow ; 
with numerous erect, slender, short sete. 
Head comparatively large, narrower than the thorax, dis- 
tinctly bimpressed ‘on the middle, slightly wrinkled there, 
with two elongate sets: on each side. Mandibles prominent. 
Thorax nearly as long as it is broad, cordiform, widest before 
the middle, gradually narrowed towards the base, posterior 
angles quite obtuse; sides finely margined, with a long seta 
betore the middle and another in front of the hind angle ; 
base medially incurved, transversely depressed, without well- 
marked fossee; there is an abbreviated central stria. Scu- 
tellum wanting. Llytra oblong, shoulders rounded, apices 
individually obliquely rounded, with a short broad sutural 
gap; their sides scarcely curvate, the lateral margins more 
explanate near the shoulders than they are elsewhere; disk 
flat, apparently covered with excessively minute brassy scales ; 
there are four or five series of very shallow indistinct punc- 
tures on each; these become irregular behind; there are no 
