698 Major T. Broun on new 



Tarsi with single claws, basal joint of the posterior small, 

 the next thick and nearly twice the length of the third. 



Maxillary palpi small, first joint invisible, second elongate 

 and slightly curved, third globular^ fourth fusiform. An- 

 tennce rather distant at the base, the exposed portion of the 

 basal joint scarcely longer than broad, second as stout, ovi- 

 form ; joints 3-8 small and moniliform, eighth rather shorter 

 than seventh; the ninth very short, slightly broader than the 

 preceding, tenth strongly transverse, nearly double the width 

 of the ninth ; terminal large, as broad as the penultimate, 

 as long as joints 7-10 combined, conical and acuminate, and 

 bearing very slender elongate pubescence. 



Male. — Prosternum not carinate. Metasternum elongate, 

 convex, with a median impression behind. Abdomen witii 

 the basal segment covered by the femora, bearing elongate 

 pubescence behind ; segments 2-5 gradually decrease in 

 length, fifth slightly but widely incurved behind ; sixth 

 nearly twice the length of the fifth, deeply and somewhat 

 angularly emarginate at the extremity; seventh distinct, 

 subrotundate, with a slight median fissure or groove along its 

 hinder portion. 



The male characters are derived from a specimen found at 

 Tarukenga, near Rotorua ; the other part of the description 

 from the original specimen obtained at Maketu, Hunua 

 Range. 



This genus is instituted for the more systematic location of 

 my Euplectus claviger, 2483, which in 1893 I placed by 

 itself as the exponent of a new genus in Section VIII. of the 

 New Zealand Euplectini (Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 6, 

 vol. XV. p. 71). A third individual having been found, I 

 sent it to M. Ach. Raffray, who confirms my opinion, and 

 states that this new genus comes near his Euplectodina, 

 which occurs at Siam and Java. 



3385. Alloplectus pi'cipennis, sp. n. 



Subdepressed, elongate, narrow, glossy; light chestnut-red, 

 elytra somewhat piceous, legs and antennae testaceous ; 

 pubescence decumbent, greyish, scanty on the head and 

 thorax. 



Head shorter than the thorax, nearly as broad, with 

 rounded hind angles ; bifoveate in line with the front of the 

 rather large eyes, and with an indistinct longitudinal stria 

 behind. Thorax only slightly longer than broad, oviform, 

 rounded and widest at the middle, more narrowed towards 

 the front than behind ; with a transverse impression near the 



