686 Major T. Broun o?i new 



complex structure are very far from being easily accom- 

 plished even by expert entomologists. 



As a rule, the species are not so rare as those of our 

 Faronini; nearly all frequent heaps of decaying leaves in 

 the forests, and are seldom found over wide areas. 



T. Broun. 



Mount Albert, 



Auckland, N.Z., 



8th August, 1911. 



List of new Species. 



3376. Euplectopsis pranulatus. 



3377. „ fastigiatiis. 



3378. „ mucronelhis. 



3379. „ tumidus. 



3380. Vidamu.'5 trochanteralis. 



3381. ,, armiferus. 



3382. Zealandius raffrayi. 

 .3383. „ illusti-is. 



3384. „ fulg-ens. 



3385. AUoplectus picipennis. 



3386. „ subcoecus. 



3387. Kenoccelus dimorphus. 



Euplectopsis, Raffray. 



(CTenei*a des Pselaphidae, p. 82.) 



3376. Euplectopsis granulatus^ sp. n. 



Robust, elongate-oblong, slightly'convex ; head and thorax 

 subopaque, and, like the hind body, fusco-rufous, elytra 

 fulvo-rufous, legs and antennje red, tarsi and palpi testa- 

 ceous j pubescence rather scanty on the head and thorax, 

 more conspicuous on the abdomen than on the elytra, the 

 outstanding slender setse rather numerous. 



Head smaller than the thorax, widest in line with the 

 moderately large eyes, obliquely narrowed behind ; the 

 shallow frontal depression is not quite smooth and is furcate 

 towards the eyes, but there are no perceptible fovese ; it is 

 punctate-granulose. Tliorax of about equal length and 

 breadth, rather wider before the middle than elsewhere, 

 rounded there, a good deal narrowed anteriorly, so that its 

 apex is much narrower than the back of the head ; median 

 sulcus rather indistinct and ending in the small mesial basal 

 impression, the lateral fovese shallow, each with a linear 

 prolongation towards the front; the middle of the base and 

 the front are not quite smooth, the rest of its surface is 

 covered with granules, each of these has a small puncture in 

 it. Elytra subquadrate, with somewhat rounded shoulders ; 

 they are rather longer and broader than the tliorax and are 

 only indistinctly and finely punctate; the sutural strise are 

 deep and, like the short intra-humeral impression on each, 

 are broad and foveiform at the base. IJind body almost as 



