178 Capt. T. Broun on new 
however, are not marked off from the disk by a linear im- 
ression. No. 1883 has a broader, less posteriorly narrowed 
fe, There are no distinguishing characters underneath. 
Length 14, breadth nearly # line. 
Wellington. Mr. G. V. Hudson sent me a mounted 
specimen numbered 224. 
Group Scydmenide. 
Scydmenus cilipes, sp. n. 
Elongate, not very narrow, convex, shining, rufous, tarsi 
yellow, palpi fulvous ; pubescence conspicuous. 
Head of moderate breadth, rather flat and bald in front ; 
with rather coarse, outstanding, but not very elongate, obscure 
yellowish hairs behind. Thorax scarcely longer than broad, 
slightly, regularly, and curvedly narrowed anteriorly, the 
base not much broader than the shoulders; there are two 
distinct median basal foveze, and a smaller one near each’hind 
angle, where the sides are compressed or flattened; the hairs 
on the sides are like those on the head, on the disk they are 
finer and more scanty. /ytra elongate-oval, with two broad 
basal depressions, the shoulders a little elevated ; their pubes- 
cence elongate, slender, upright, and quite yellow. Hemora 
moderately clavate beyond the middle ; t¢b¢@ slightly flexuous, 
the anterior with conspicuous yellow sete along the inside, 
their basal portion bare, the intermediate bear coarser sete 
near the inner extremity. 
Antenne elongate, stout, pubescence elongate ; second joint 
distinctly longer than the first, nearly twice the length of the 
third ; fourth subquadrate, rather shorter than the third or 
fifth ; sixth and seventh about equal; eighth subovate, rather 
longer than broad ; ninth and tenth about as long as broad ; 
eleventh longer than either of the preceding two; the four 
terminal joints are enlarged, but not suddenly. Mazillary 
palpi moderately long ; second joint slender and curved, third 
gradually dilated, fourth small, not half the width of the 
penultimate. yes prominent. Pygidium covered. Tarst 
slender, the anterior hardly at all expanded. 
This and the following species have been carefully com- 
pared with every one of the New-Zealand exponents of the 
group. The bright yellow, conspicuous fringe on the front 
tibize will be an aid to its identification. 
Length $, breadth 3 line. 
Ligar’s Bush, Papakura. One, no doubt a male. 
