542 CQLEOPTERA. 



Group Salpingidae. 

 Salpingus Illiger. Man. N.Z. Coleopt., p. 398. 

 4073. Salpingus aterrimus sp. nov. 



Subdepressed, very narrow and elongate ; glossy black, the clypeus, 

 tibiae, and basal six joints of antennae somewhat castaneous, remaining 

 joints of these last dull fuscous, tarsi and palpi fusco-testaceous ; it bears 

 very few, slender, erect, rather short, inconspicuous greyish setae. 



Head, eyes inclusive, as broad as thorax, gradually narrowed anteriorly, 

 distinctly and moderately closely punctate, bi-impressed between the 

 antennae ; clypeus smooth. Tliorax about as long as broad, widest near 

 the front, gradually narrowed backwards, base and apex truncate ; dis- 

 tinctly but not very closely punctured ; the basal foveae cause an appear- 

 ance of slight constriction. Scutellum smooth. El}i:ra with obtuse 

 shoidders, broader than thorax at the base, almost thrice its length, quite 

 parallel, apices broadly rounded ; each el}'tron with six series of distinct 

 punctures, these do not attain the apices, the sutural ones rather shorter 

 than the others, there is a slight sutural depression at the base and 

 another near the extremity. 



Antennae as long as head and thorax, with slender outstanding setae ; 

 basal joint stouter than the next, third rather longer than contiguous ones, 

 seventh subglobular, evidently broader than sixth, but smaller than the 

 following ones, eleventh oval, these enlarged articulations densely and finely 

 pubescent. 



Much smaller and more slender than 1212. 



Length, 2f mm. ; breadth, | mm. 



Glenhope. Unique. Found on 1st August, 1915, by Mr. T. Hall. 



Agapytho gen. nov. 



Anterior coxae as distinctly separated as the intermediate, the inter- 

 vening process grooved near each side. 



Epistome subquadrate, somewhat prolonged and narrowed anteriorly, 

 truncate in front, depressed at the base. Eyes entire, rotundate, moderately 

 prominent. Maxillary j)alpi moderate, penultimate joint transverse, the 

 terminal as long as preceding two, slightly tapering towards the subtruncate 

 apex ; the labial very thick and short, their last joint oblong, truncate 

 at extremity. Mandibles not prominent, bifid at apex. Antennae almost 

 as long as head and thorax, rather stout ; basal joint rather thick, not 

 longer than broad, third obconical ; joints 2, 4, 5, and 6 subequal and 

 transversely rotundate, eighth shghtly smaller than seventh ; ninth and 

 tenth distinctly broader than eighth, transversely quadrate, the terminal 

 conical. Thorax apparently longer than broad, dilated behind the middle, 

 truncate at apex. Scutellum not triangular, strongly transverse. Elytra 

 elongate, rather broader than thorax at the base. Legs moderate, tibiae 

 nearly straight, indistinctly bispinose at the extremity ; terminal joint 

 of posterior tarsi evidently longer than the basal three together, claws 

 simple. 



The North American Cry modes is the only other genus that has 

 distinctly separated anterior coxae ; but as it, as well as the other two 

 genera in Lacordaire's Pythides vrais, have .securiform terminal joints to 

 the maxillary palpi, Agapytho must be placed in the Salpingidae at j^resent, 

 the separation of the front coxae, however, is abnormal. 



