Species o/'PselapliidaB/rom New Zealand. 493 



and palpi yellow ; pubescence greyish yellow, slender, sub- 

 erect behind. 



Head nearly as large as the thorax, moderately curvedly 

 narrowed behind the eyes, posterior angles obtuse, antennal 

 tubercles a little elevated but flattened towards the front ; 

 the median channel deep, extending nearly to the base but 

 narrower tiiere than it is between the eyes, occipital fovege 

 small and punctiform ;. eyes slightly prominent. Thorax 

 subcordate, widest near the middle, slightly broader than 

 long" ; median depression subquadrate, basal fove^e small and 

 punctiform, the lateral large and deep and extending for- 

 wards to the middle. Elytra nearly quite flat, not double 

 the length of the thorax, fully as broad behind as they are 

 long, moderately narrowed before the middle ; sutural striae 

 somewliat contracted near the base and finely tripunctate 

 there, alongside each there are two, or three, basal punctures, 

 apparently not a constant character ; the dorsal stripe do not 

 reacli the smooth base and consist of two basal punctures and 

 a large impression behind these. Bind body slightly longer 

 than the elytra, the first visible segment is much shorter tiian 

 the next and bears some minute brassy scales, fourth con- 

 siderably narrowed apically, fifth prominent, horizontal and 

 narrow. 



Ze^s moderately elongate ;• tibiae straight inwardly, slightly 

 arched externaby. 



AntenncB as long as the head and thorax, with long slender 

 pubescence ; basal joint rather longer than the second and 

 third combiaed; second thick, quite as long as broad, sub- 

 ovate, third very small and subglobular ; joints 4-8 about 

 equal, as long as- they are broad but distinctly contracted 

 apically so as to appear laxly articulated, ninth and tenth 

 slightly broader, transverse, the terminal rather longer. 



Underside apparently impunctate, clothed with distinct 

 yellow hairs. Head with a broad central depression, without 

 cilia. Fourth ventral segment very slightly longer than the 

 third ; fifth rather shorter, feebly medially impressed, trun- 

 cate behind ; sixth short, also truncate, supplementary segment 

 narrow, rounded apically, somewhat concave along; the 

 miildle. 



S. puncticeps is at once distinguishable by the deflexed 

 terminal dorsal segment and the punctate, though similarly 

 formed head. 8, duplicata, near which this should be 

 placed, may be recognized almost at a glance by the very 

 obsolete, or entirely absent, occipital foveae. 



(J. Length 2^; breadth § mm. 



Greymouth. When first received from Mr. J. H. Lewis 



