New Zealand Pselapliidic. 100 



319G. Euplectoj'Sis clavatulus, sp. n. 



Elongate, not slender, slightly convex, nitid, finely, 

 irre^idarly, but not closely punctate ; castaneo-rufous, legs 

 and antcniiie paler, palpi iind tarsi flavcsceiit ; rather thinly 

 clothed with dccumbeut, distinct, greyish pubescence. 



Head smaller than the thorax, gcnuj nearly straight, with 

 obtuse angles; the I'ovese distinct, more or less couHueut 

 in front, antennal tubercles distant, rather small. Tlwrax 

 narrow, oviform, rather longer than broad, moderately 

 rounded near the middle, less narrowed behind than iu 

 front, where it is almost as broad as the occiput ; discal 

 furrow well nuirked, extending from tlie base nearly to the 

 apex, hiteral Ibveaj subrotundate, rather large and deep, and 

 united to the rather narrow basal depression. Elytra sub- 

 oblong, about a third longer than the thorax, evidently 

 broader than it is, a little rounded near the shoulders ; 

 sutural stiiae well marked throughout but not broad, jjuncti- 

 form at the base, with a basal puncture alongside each ; the 

 intra-humeral impressions short and broad, indistinctly 

 duplicated, bipunctate at the base. Hind body as broad as 

 the wing-cases, deflexed behind and therefore appearing 

 shorter, the basal three segments slightly increasing. Leys 

 stout, the anterior tibiae somewhat arched and longer than 

 the others. 



Antennce rather shorter than the head and thorax, 

 moderately stout, gradually incrassate from the seventh 

 joint onwards ; second joint oblong-oval, nearly as long as 

 the basal, third slightly longer than broad, fourth and fifth 

 about eqvial, neither quite as long as broad, sixth smallest, 

 seventh rather broader than the sixth, joints 8-10 suc- 

 cessively dilated, eleventh conical, subacurainate, hardly the 

 length of the preceding three. 



Aletasternum moderately elongate and convex. Basal 

 ventral sejimeut partly covered by the femora, segments 2—1 

 slightly increasing, fifth widely incurved behind, barely half 

 the length of its predecessor in the middle, sixth semi- 

 circularly emarginate, the seventh with a distinct oblong 

 operculum. 



Kather broader than Reitter's E. longicoUis (3198), and at 

 once differentiated by the gradual enlargement of the last 

 five antennal joints, forming a sort of elongated club ; 

 and as each elytron is quadripunctate at the base, this species 

 exhibits two well-marked characters which, iu conjunction, 

 and independently of details of sculpture, separate it from 

 any other species known to me, 



c? . Length H ; breadth quite ^ mm. 



