New Zealand Pselapliidae. 631 



Antennoe as long as tlie head and thorax, basal joint twice 

 as long as broad, second suboviform, the next small and 

 sub<>-lobular, joints 4—8 suboqual, eacli narrowed in front, 

 ninth and tenth slightly broader, transverse, eleventh 

 conical. 



Underside castaneo-rnfous, with yellowish pubescence. 

 Head with a broad lunate impression between the eyes. 

 The third and fourth ventral segments rather longer than the 

 second, the fifth rather shorter than the fourth, longitudinally 

 impressed on the niitldle, the sixth deeply emarginate, its 

 central portion concave along the middle, but not extending 

 as far back as the extremity of the last dorsal segment. 



Though this, at first sigiit, may seem to be only a sexual 

 form of S. hifoveiceps it is certainly distinct and of the 

 same sex. The head is evidently broader, its frontal 

 channel is less cuneiform, the elytra are longer and less • 

 narrowed towards the base, the abdomen is more elongate, 

 and tiie sexual characters of the underside are materially 

 different. 



cJ . Length 2\ ; breadth quite ^ mm. 



Greymouth [U. Helms). One from Dr. Sharp's collection, 

 in the British Museum. 



3491. Sagola clavatella, sp. n. 



Elongate, narrow, subparallel, nitid ; head and thorax red, 

 elytra castaneo-rufous, abdomen, legs and antennae less 

 rufescent, palpi yellow; pubescence yellowish, elongate, 

 suberect, thicker behind than in front. 



//ga^subquadrate behind the nearly flatantennal tubercles, 

 the gense almost straight, with obtuse hind angles, very 

 finely and irregularly punctate ; frontal channel deep, oblong, 

 extending as far as the back of the eyes, but hardly half as 

 wide between the tubercles, occipital fovese small and puncti- 

 form. Eyes moderately large. Thorax rounded and widest 

 at the middle and therefore not quite cordate, its length 

 and, breadth about equal ; discal depression subrotundate 

 basal punctures small but distinct, lateral fovese deep, not 

 prolonged beyond the middle, its surface minutely and 

 indistinctly punctured. Elytra oblong, a third longer than 

 the thorax, slightly narrowed before the middle, nearly flat 

 above ; sutural strire well marked, with a basal puncture close 

 to each, the dorsal striaj composed of a basal puncture and an 

 elongate in)pression which becomes narrower and less distinct 

 behind the middle. Hind body horizontal, a third longer 

 than the elytra, its first visible segment with minute brassy 



