504 COLEOPTERA. 



shape but much smaller ; joints 4-6 submoniliforni and about equal, 

 seventh and eighth rather broader, narrowed apicaliy, ninth and tenth still 

 broader, transverse, eleventh subconical. 



Underside like the upper siirface in colour. Head with a deep frontal 

 groove across it. Metasternum rather short and convex. Abdomen elongate, 

 fourth segment largest, fifth shorter : sixth very short in the middle but 

 prolonged at the sides, thus enclosing the broad and rather large seventh. 



Much more slender, flatter, and uniformly paler than S. lineata (2719). 

 The antennae shorter and somewhat different in structure, the thoracic 

 lateral fovea*- smaller, and the elytra .shorter; the first exposed dorsal 

 .segment is without minute brassy squamae. 



(J. Length, 2 mm. ; breadth, \ mm. 



Mount Te Aroha, Auckland. A single individual, taken by myself, in 

 November, 1910. at a height of 2,000 ft. 



4018. Sagola lineiceps sp. nov. 



Elongate, moderately shining ; head and thorax rufous, elytra and hind- 

 body castaneo-rufous, legs and antennae paler, tarsi and palpi testaceous ; 

 pubescence yellow, subdepressed, longer and more erect behind. 



Head almost as broad as thorax, slightly narrowed behind the moderately 

 large eyes, with rounded liind angles ; slightly elevated and aubcarinate 

 along the middle, the linear frontal groove extending from the front of 

 the nearly flat antennal tubercles to the large occipital foveae. Thorax of 

 about equal length and breadth, widest at or before the middle ; median 

 fovea subrotundate but somewhat angulate near the ba.se, not perceptibly 

 connected with the basal punctures, lateral foveae rather small and puncti- 

 forni. Elytra subquadrate, slightly narrowed near the base, a third longer 

 than thorax, finely punctate ; sutural striae rather broader and deeper 

 near the base than behind, the dorsal rather short, not reaching the middle 

 and not distinctly divided. Hind-body quite as broad as and a third 

 longer than elytra, distinctly punctate, third segment longest, the first 

 simple. 



Antennae rather longer than the head and thorax, moderately stout, 

 very slightly incrassate toward.s the extremity ; basal joint twice as long 

 as broad but not double the length of the oviform second, third oviform but 

 smaller, fourth suboblong ; joints 5-8 slightly broader, narrowed a))ically, 

 ninth and tenth transverse, rather broader than eighth, the terminal sub- 

 conical. 



Differs from .S. carinata (3482), (Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, vol. x, 

 p. 622), the type of which is in the British Museum, in coloration, move 

 distinctly punctate, its head broader, with the slender frontal channel more 

 prolonged backwards, the lateral foveae of the thorax smaller, the elytra 

 less oblong, with short, deep. api)artMitly undivided dorsal striae. 



$. Length, 2| mm. ; breadth, § mm. 



(rlenhope. A single female found on the 14th March, 1915, by Mr. T. 

 Hall. 



Stenosagola gen. nov. 



Nearly approximated to Sagola but presenting the following differences :— 



Bodv elongat*', very narrow and slender. Thorax oviform. Elytra 



subquadrate, th<"!r dorsal striae undivided, .short and subpunctiform. Hind- 



bodv about doubl" th(> joncth of the elvtra. Anteuiiac never longer than 



