622 Major T. Broun on some 



tliat a large specimen is less than the sixth of an inch in 

 length. 



These insects are not agriculturalists' pests. Many years 

 ago I found them destroying Acarida?, and during Oct. 1911 

 I kept tliree specimens of Saqola eminens (2724) under close 

 observation, along with the dead vegetable rubbish, Acaridse, 

 Lipuridas, &c., amongst which they were found, and watched 

 ihem feeding on the Lipurce. 



The remainder of the specimens, belonging principally to 

 the Euplectini, will, if all goes well, be dealt with in a 

 later paper. TliOS. BuOUN. 



Mount Albert, 



Aucklatid, N.Z., 



31st Angust, 1912. 



List of Speciefi e.rammed. 



1877. Sagola. sobrina, Broun. Tairua. 



3364. ,, nitida, Broun. Greyniouth. 



3482. „ carinata, sp. n. „ 



3483. ,, centralis, sp. n. ,, 



3484. ,, occipitalis, sp. n. ,, 



3485. ,, longula, sp. n. Aiicldaud. 

 348G. ,, pallidula, sp. n. Greymoutli. 



3487. „ spiniventris, sp. n. Picton. 



3488. ,, grata, sp. n. ,, 



3489. ,, bifoveiceps, sp. n. (Treymouth. 



3490. „ biirapressa, sp. n. „ 



3491. ,, clavatella, sp. u. „ 



3492. ,, lawsoui, sp. ii. Auckland. 



3493. „ latula, sp. n. Greyniouth. 



— „ frontalis, Raffray. Bealey. 



— „ punctulata, Raftray. Greyniouth. 



The numbers are in correspondence witli tlie author's 

 * Manual of New Zealand Coleoptera.' 



3482. Sagola car inula, sp. n. 



Shining, sanguineous ; legs and antennae paler ; ])ubes- 

 cence yellowish, ratlier elongate, subdepressed, mingled with 

 longer erect setae on the wing-cases and abdomen : tlie body 

 elongate and subdepressed. 



Head rather smaller than the thorax, gradually narrowed 

 behind the eyes, witii obtuse hind angles ; it is finely 

 and indefinitely punctate; along the middle there is a 

 carina which, in front, is transformed into a very slender 

 groove; this separates the flat antennal tubercles; occipital 

 foveee punctiform, yet moderately large. Thora.r sub- 

 cordate, rounded and widest before the middle^ more obliquely 



