486 COLEOPTERA. 



The manifestly different coloration, rather small abdominal tubercles, 

 and different antennal structure, the fourth and fifth joints not being 

 abruptly enlarged, will enable entomologists to separate this from the same 

 sex of recorded species. 



<J. Length, 5 mm. ; breadth, 1 mm. 



Glenhope. A single male found bv Mr. T.^'Hall on the 30th August, 

 1915. 



Group PSKLAPHIDAE. 

 FARONINl. 



Exeirarthra Broun. Man. N.Z. Coleopt., p. 1054. 



3992. Exeirarthra parviceps sp. nov. 



Elongate, slightly and interruptedly narrowed anteriorly, nitid ; castaueo- 

 rufous, elytra and antennae paler, legs still more so, tarsi yellow, palpi 

 fusco-testaceous ; pubescence yellowish, elongate and suberect behind. 



Head much shorter and narrower than thorax, narrower in front of 

 the moderately small, prominent eyes, hardly at all narrowed behind, with 

 somewhat rounded hind angles ; frontal channel extending as far as the 

 front of the eyes, rather narrow throughout, separating the somewhat 

 elevated tubercles, which, however, are rather broad and flat above ; 

 occipital foveae moderately large but punctiform. Thorax of about equal 

 length and breadth, oviform, rather more narrowed anteriorly than behind, 

 indistinctly punctate ; its subangular median fovea connected with the 

 small, punctiform lateral ones by a curvate impression. Elytra finely punc- 

 tate, oblong, slightly narrowed near the shoulders ; sutural striae finely 

 punctate near the base, rather broader and deeper there than behind, w-ith 

 a small basal puncture alongside each, the dorsal tripunctate but hardly 

 attaining the middle. Hind-body as long as elytra, its third segment rather 

 broader and longer than the others, finely punctate, the first with minute 

 brassy scales, the true basal one just visible at the extremity of the elytra, 

 fourth and fifth deflexed and, conjointly, obtusely triangular. Legs 

 similar to those of E. angustula. 



Antennae rather shorter than head and thorax, moderately slender, 

 very little thickened towards tlie extremity ; basal joint stout, less so near 

 the apex, a third longer than the oblong-oval second, the next only about 

 half the size of its predecessor ; joints 4-6 differ but little, eighth slightly 

 broader, nintli and tenth transverse, eleventh broken off. 



Rather smaller than E. angvstula (3824), the head evidently so, and 

 with more rounded posterior angles, the eyes also are much smaller, and 

 the antennae are shorter, joints 2-5 notably- so. 



(J. Length, If mm. ; breadth, quite ^mm. 



Mount Hope, near Nelson. Unique. Found by Mr. T. Hall on the 

 14th February, 1914, at an elevation of nearly 4,000 ft. 



Sagola Sharp. Man. N.Z. Coleopt., p. 134. 



3993. Sagola bilobata sp. nov. 



Elongate, subdepressed, nitid ; pubescence yellowish, elongate and 

 suberect ; head and thorax rufous., elytra lighter red, abdomen infuscate, 

 the femora slightly so, tibiae fusco-testaceous, tarsi and palpi flavescent, 

 anti-nuae casta neo-rufous. 



