GOO Major T. Broun on new 



very closely allied, but joints 5-7 of the antennae are oblong- 

 oval and tiie head is slightly broader. 



^ . Length If ; breadth ^ mm. 



Southland. A single individual from Mr. A. Philpolt. 



3379. Euplectopsis tumidus, sp. n. 



Shining, somewhat convex, moderately elongate ; san- 

 guineous or rufo-castaneous, rather variable; legs and an- 

 tennje paler, tarsi and palpi fulvescent ; pubescence yellowish, 

 rather short and more or less curled, the hind body with a 

 iQw long erect hairs. 



Head rather smaller than the thorax, slightly rounded 

 behind the rather small medially situated eyes ; antennal 

 tubercles distant and subrotundate, not prominent ; the surface 

 distinctly and near the sides closely punctate, the rounded 

 fovepe not very deep or sharply defined, and more or less con- 

 fluent jvith the frontal impression. Thorax cordiform, about 

 as long as broad, indistinctly punctate ; the median furrow 

 deep and broad, extending from the front to the deep, sub- 

 quadrate, basal fossa ; the lateral fovese large, but becoming 

 linear towards the apex, with a thin transverse impression 

 uniting them with the central fossa. Elytra slightly broader 

 than long, evidently larger than the thorax, curvedly nar- 

 rowed near the base ; sutural strise well marked, deeper and 

 foveate at the base, the dorsal ones also deep and broad, but 

 becoming shallow before the middle. Hind body shorter than 

 the elytra, its first segment horizontal, broadly medially im- 

 pressed at the base, the others gradually deflexed. Legs 

 simple, tibise nearly straight. 



AntenncB shorter than the head and thorax, rather slender, 

 finely and scantily pubescent ; basal joint red, slightly 

 longer than the oblong-oval second ; joints 3-9 hardly differ, 

 all subglobular and small ; tenth transverse, evidently 

 broader than the preceding ones; eleventh a little broader 

 than tenth at the base, conical and distinctly acuminate, and, 

 including the narrow apical appendage, as long as the pre- 

 ceding four combined. 



Male. — Underside fusco-rufous, very thinly clothed ; the 

 head with elongate erect setse, relatively coarsely punctate, 

 with a slender frontal carina and a large depression at the 

 base. Presternum with a fine carina along the middle. 

 Abdomen rather longer than the convex metasternum ; basal 

 segment covered by the femora, second rather large, broadly 

 medially emarginate at the apex, much swollen outwardly ; 

 third, in front, with a deep sinuosity at each side of the 



