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length and breadth, 7th and 8th rather shorter, 9th and 10th transversely 
quadrate, laxly articulated, the terminal, with its broad apical appendage, 
conical. 
After comparison with the descriptions of twelve species, the types of 
which are in the British Museum, and ten allied species in my own collec- 
tion, this proves to be distinct from any of them. An examination of the 
form and sculpture of the head, below as well as above, and of the nearly 
equally stout antennal joints, will lead to its recognition. It belongs to 
section v, according to my arrangement. 
$. Length, 3mm.; breadth, 4 mm. 
j Routeburn, north of Lake Wakatipu; 19th February, 1914. One 
perfect and one damaged male found by Mr. T. Hall. 
3829. Sagola hectorii sp. nov. 
Robust, subdepressed, shining; rufous, legs and antennae rather paler, 
tarsi and palpi flavescent ; thinly clothed with slender, elongate, princi- 
pally erect, yellowish hairs. 
Head trigonal, its hind angles extending straight outwards a little 
farther than the widest part of the thorax and feebly depressed at the 
extremity ; antennal tubercles somewhat elevated and separated by a 
distinct groove in front; median channel deep and angular, prolonged as 
far as the back of the eyes, narrowed there, cecipital foveae elongate but 
indefinite ; eyes moderately large and prominent. Thorax slightly broader 
than long, widest just before the middle ; median fovea subrotundate, base 
bipunctate, lateral foveae deep, hardly extending forwards as far as the 
middle. Elytra about a third broader than long, narrowed towards the 
base, yet rather wider than the thorax there ; sutural striae well marked, 
with a basal puncture near each, the dorsal apparently entire, short, 
scarcely prolonged to the middle, the suture minutely punctate. Hind- 
body evidently longer than elytra, 1st visible segment shorter than follow- 
ing ones, with simple pubescence, 5th obtusely triangular. 
Underside shining, its pubescence yellow. Head with a transverse 
eroove in front of the eyes, its central portion depressed and flat but with 
distinctly elevated lateral borders, the hind angles only feebly impressed. 
Abdomen finely and indistinctly punctate, 2nd segment shorter than the 
three following ones, which are subequal, 6th almost as long as 5th, 
truncate behind, 7th obtusely triangular, its operculum indistinct. 
Legs and antennae similar to those of 2724 (S. eminens), but in other 
respects very different. S. angulifer (3363), another Auckland species, is 
the nearest ally, but in it the head is gradually expanded behind the eyes, 
and the extremity of its angles is convex or obtusely subtuberculate ; the 
frontal channel is prolonged as an obvious stria right to the back of the 
head: there are no basal punctures between the sutural and dorsal striae 
of the elytra; the Ist joint of the antennae is longer and thinner, and 
the 7th ventral segment is oblong and rather narrow. 
3. Length, 2? mm.; breadth, ? mm. 
Belgrove, near Nelson. Another of Mr. T. Hall’s numerous discoveries ; 
7th November, 1914. This notable species is dedicated to the late Sir 
James Hector, as a substitute for 2740, which proves to be merely a 
varietal form of Bryaxis diversa. 
