Species 0/ Pselapliid£e/ro??i Neio Zealand. 697 



the transverse tentli ; tlie terminal large, conical, and acumi- 

 nate, about as long as the pi*eceding three combined. 



Male. — Underside shining chestnut-red, with fine yellowish 

 pubescence. Head foveate behind. Prosternum rather 

 short, carinate along the middle. Metasternum with a sub- 

 rotundate depression. Intermediate and posterior trochanters 

 spined. Abdomen with segments 2-6 decreasing in length, 

 the second medially convex and with a linear impression 

 towards each side, the frontal suture of the third open and 

 rather deep, with a small central depression within it ; sixth 

 slightly shorter than fifth, widely emarginate, the supple- 

 mentary obtusely triangular. 



The male characters of the Nortli Island Z. raffrayi and 

 Z. illustris are suflSciently distinctive. The female is 

 obviously more glossy, broader, and with thicker legs than 

 the same sex of Z. vsitatus, 3050, from Broken River. The 

 head is broader behind the eyes. The thorax is evidently 

 })roader, with much deeper impressions, and the elytral strii« 

 are deeper. The anteinige are longer and stouter, with larger 

 tenth and eleventh joints. 



Length 2 ; breadth | ram. 



Grey mouth. Two specimens from Mr. J. H. Lewis, the 

 male unfortunately without the middle pair of legs. 



Alloplectus, gen. no v. 



Body moderately elongate, subdepressed. Head shorter 

 than tiie thorax, as broad in line with the eyes, obliquely 

 narrowed anteriorly, gense nearly straight, with obtuse angles ; 

 bifoveate in line with the front of the eyes, anil with a 

 median groove behind. Ei/es rather large but only slightly 

 convex, situated just behind the middle, extending down- 

 wards and occupying a larger space underneath than above. 

 Antennal tubercles small, moderately elevated, subcontiguous. 

 Thorax longer than broad, rounded, and slightly wider before 

 the middle than at the base; without discoidal impressions, 

 but with a well-marked linear impression in front of the 

 base uniting with the elongate lateral fovese. Elytra oblong, 

 about twice the length of the thorax, slightly narrowed 

 towards the base ; sutural striae deep, putictiform at the base, 

 the dorsal also deep but only moderately elongate. Hind 

 body much shorter than the elytra, the basal three visible 

 segments margined, the first rather longer than the second, 

 horizontal, the others deflexedj but not abruptly. 



