species o/Pselaphiilie/rowi New Zealand. 501 



subequa], fifth extremely short and truncate in the middle 

 but considerably prolonged at the sides, sixth in the middle 

 nearly as long- as the sides of the fifth, truncate behind, the 

 supplementary short and broad. 



The proper position for this species is after S. tenuis, 

 1582, in which, however, tiie head is more trigonal, the 

 frontal channel is not much larger than the occipital fove?e, 

 and the eyes are almost fiat; the tliorax is widest before the 

 middle and, therefore, cordiform, and its median depression 

 is oblong ; the elytral dorsal strise are longer, but not so 

 deep and, instead of being entire, are divided ; the hind body 

 is shorter, flatter, and very gradually expanded from the 

 base to the extremity of the third visible segment, and the 

 colour and vestiture are manifestly different. 



c?. Length 2 ; breadth ^ mm. 



Erua, February 1911. A solitary male specimen is all I 

 could find, during two visits, amongst leaves ou the ground 

 at an elevation of about 2400 feet. 



3372. Sagola crassicorm's, sp. n. 



Slender, elongate, subdepressed, nitid ; rufescent, legs and 

 antennso fusco-fulvous, palpi and tarsi yellow ; sparingly 

 covered with distinct, decumbent, elongate, greyish pubes- 

 cence. 



Head quite as long as broad, slightly rounded behind the 

 small eyes, rather gradually narrowed anteriorly, antennal 

 tubercles rather flat and broad, separated by a distinct 

 groove; frontal channel moderately broad and deep, ex- 

 tending as far as the back of the eyes, occipital fovese very 

 distinct and moderately large. Thorax suboviforra, widest 

 near the middle, rather longer than the head, a third longer 

 than broad ; median depression transversely quadrate, basal 

 punctures indistinct, lateral fovea3 extending forwards to the 

 middle. Elytra slightly curvedly narrowed before the middle, 

 nearly as broad as they are long but not exceeding the 

 thorax in length ; sutural striae distinct, the dorsal small and 

 entire. Hind body twice the length of the elytra, the third 

 exposed segment rather longer and broader than the precedino- 

 ones, fourth nearly as long as the first and slightly deflexed, 

 the terminal conical. 



Legs only moderately stout ; posterior tibise nearly straight 

 and evidently longer than the others, which are slightly 

 curved and dilated towards the extrem.ity ; the anterior and 

 intermediate tarsi shorter and thicker than the hind pair. 



AnteyincB shorter than the head and thorax, evidently 



