species o/PselapliiJse/rom New Zealand. 497 



head and thorax rufous, hind bodj more castaneous, elytra 

 and legs rufc'o- fulvous, tarsi and palpi yellow; pubescence 

 greyish, thinly distributed. 



Head slightly narrower than thorax, nearly straight, and 

 ■with obtuse angles, behind the rather small prominent eyes, 

 obliquely, not abruptly, narrowed anteriorly; antennal 

 tubercles but little elevated and subcontiguous, frontal 

 channel deep, moderately broad, and extending as far as the 

 back of the eyes, occipital fovese distinct and slightly 

 elongated. Thorax cordate, as long as broad, widest before 

 the middle, considerably and somewhat abruptly contracted 

 behind; its median depression deep and subquadrate, basal 

 punctures distinct, and placed close to the hind angles and 

 median depression, lateral fovese deep but hardly reaching 

 the middle of the sides. Elytra about a third longer than 

 the thorax, as long as thej are broad, a good deal narrowed 

 before the mid'lle, nearly flat; sutural strise moderately 

 broad and deep, indistinctly punctate near the base, dorsal 

 striae divided, the basal part punctiform, the other elongate, 

 there are no punctures between the striae. Hind body a 

 third longer, and in the middle rather broader than the elytra, 

 finely punctate, the penultimate segment quite distinctly so, 

 second and third visible segments almost equal, first rather 

 shorter, the terminal ones somewhat deflexed. 



Legs elongate, moderately slender, tibiae nearly straight. 

 Antennoi as long as the head and thorax, rather slender, 

 with elongate pubescence ; basal joint cylindric, nearly the 

 length of the following three united; second slightly longer 

 than broad, subovate, but contracted at the base ; third ovi- 

 form, small, yet slightly longer than broad ; fourth and fifth 

 oblong, equal ; joints 6-8 a little broader than the preceding 

 ones, gradually shortened, loosely articulated ; ninth and 

 tenth rather broader, transversely quadrate ; the terminal 

 conical and acuminate. 



Underside pubescent, fourth and fifth ventral segments 

 more distinctly punctured than the basal ones, 2-5 subequal, 

 sixth obtusely triangular, its whole central portion concave, 

 the supplementary indistinctly defined. 



This should be located near S. elongata, 24:72, the thorax, 

 behind the middle, is rather sharply marked off at the sides 

 from the lateral fovese. The head is longer and more convex, 

 and evidently more prolonged and narrowed anteriorly. The 

 antennae are more slender, differently formed, and have 

 acuminate terminal joints. The type of 2472 is probably a 

 n)ale, the first exposed dorsal segment having minute 

 squanicC. 



