i\'c?6' Zealand Psclapliidse. 107 



further bcick than tlic nyes and iirolonged forwards, the 

 occiput andsidcs distinctly punctate. Ei/es small, composed 

 ap|)arontly of three or four coarse facets. Thorax about as 

 loiij:; as broad, widest and rounded at, or just ])efore, the 

 middle, rather more narrowed in front than behind ; central 

 elianncl deep and broad, extcndin;^ from near tlie apex to 

 the rather broader basal depression, which is connected 'with 

 the deep lateral foveie by a groove. The sides in front of 

 these fovceeseem swollen and the base is bi|)unctate. Elytra 

 quite a third longer and l)roader than the thorax, a little 

 narrowed before the middle; sutural striic well-marked, 

 deep, broad and fovciform at the base; intra-huraeral 

 impressions also broad and deep at the base, the interval 

 between each of these and the sutural stiia appearing sub- 

 carinate ; they become obsolete towards the niidillc and, in 

 certain lights, seem duplicated ; the suture is minutely 

 seriate-punctate, the rest of the surface has a few indistinct 

 scattered punctures. Hind body much shorter than the 

 elytra, curvedly narrowed and deflexed behind, with a few 

 very fine punctures, basal segment horizontal and quite as 

 long as the next one. 



Aniemue shorter than the head and thorax, rather slender ; 

 basal two joints almost equal, stout and oblong : joints 3-8 

 small and subglobular, slightly broader than long, ninth 

 similar to the preceding one and only a little larger, tenth 

 transverse, yet scarcely twice the breadth of the eighth, the 

 terminal elongate-conical, distinctly acuminate and fully 

 the length of the preceding four combined. 



Most nearly allied to the northern E. tumidus (3379), but 

 with even more acuminate terminal joints to the antcinue, the 

 other joints also different. The head is rather smaller, more 

 deeply depressed in front, so that its hinder portion is more 

 convex in the middle, and it is less punctate ; the elytra arc 

 broader behind. 



? . Length l:^ ; breadth \ ram. 



Greymouth.. One, found by Mr. R. Helms, in Dr. Sharp's 

 eolleclion, British Museum. 



3495. Eitplectopsis dupHcatus, sp. n. 



Nitid, slightly convex, moderately elongate, not slender ; 

 somewhat castaneo-rufous, elytra brighter, legs and antennte 

 of a paler hue, tarsi and palpi flavescent ; sparingly clothed 

 with suberect, unequally elongate, yellowish hairs, the head 

 with numerous shorter decumbent ones. 



Head not much smaller than the thorax, moderately 

 closely and distinctly punctate : genae narrowed behind 



