Coleoptera from New Zealand. 75 



Sagola spimfer, sp. n. 



Elongate, rather narrow, shinino;, red ; elytra paler ; legs 

 yellow or reddish yellow ; tarsi and palpi yellow ; pubescent. 



Bead not broad, slightly narrowed behind ; genre nearly 

 straight ; tubercles rather small, obviously separated except 

 at the extreme front ; frontal cliannel broad and deep, almost 

 parallel-sided, extending to beyond the middle of the eyes ; 

 there are two conspicuous fove^e behind ; its surface is not 

 distinctly punctured. Eges large. Thorax about as long as 

 it is broadj widest near the middle; with a large angular 

 antebasal impression; two minute foveas near the basal 

 margin and a large fovea at each side occupying the space 

 between the posterior angle and the middle. Elytra oblong, 

 almost parallel-sided, witli the common sutural and intra- 

 humeral impressions, the latter more or less evidently divided 

 into two parts ; pubescence elongate. Hind body rather 

 longer than the elytra, fourth segment about as long as the 

 third, but not marginated ; the basal segment with minute 

 brassy scales. Legs moderate ; front tibite slightly curved 

 externally, the middle pair straight, the posterior gradually 

 expanded, and with a spiniform appendage lying along the 

 inside near the extremity. Tarsi moderately short. 



Antennce pubescent ; first joint stout, cylindric ; second 

 hardly longer than broad ; third small ; joints 4 to 7 nearly 

 equal, 8 to 10 transverse, eleventh appendiculate. 



Underside red, shining, pubescent. Head simple, with the 

 usual broad groove behind the mentum. Metasternum rather 

 long and convex, with a broad central channel. The middle 

 coxce are rather widely separated and the mesosternal carina 

 is indistinct. Abdometi elongate, basal segment with a small 

 ridge between the coxaj; segments 2 to 5 about equal, the 

 hind margin of the fifth continuous with that of the upper 

 surface ; sixth somewhat retracted. 



This species may be placed near No. 1880. It can be 

 easily identified by an examination of the hind tibia3. 



Var. — Thorax evidently longer than broad, almost oviform. 



S ' Length 1, breadth \ line. 



Mount Pirongia. Three examples found during December 

 1893 and J\[arch 1894. 



Sagola eminens^ sp. n. 



Suhdepressed, red ; elytra and legs paler, tarsi and palpi 

 reddish yellow ; pubescence yellow, coarser and more erect 

 on the hind body than elsewhere. 



