New Zealand Pselapliidse. 20B 



evidently shorter. Fully matured individuals are doubtless 

 more rul'cscent. 



Length \k ; breadth i mm. 



Tairua. This seems to be another of my unique specimens 

 sent to Dr. Sharp and now preserved iu the British Museum. 



ViDAMUS, Raffray. 

 Wytsman's Gen. lus., Pselaphidaa, 1908, p. 89. 



3500, Vidamus modestus, sp. n. 



Elongate, rather narrow, subparallel, nitid, very slightly 

 convex, castaneo-rufous, with the antennae and legs paler, 

 tarsi and palpi flaveseent ; clothed with depressed, short, 

 yellowish-grey pubescence. 



Head rather short, gradually yet distinctly narrowed 

 behind the moderately large eyes, its hind angles obtuse and 

 but little broader tban the tboracic apex in the female ; in 

 the male subquadrate, with the obtuse hind angles evidently 

 broader than the front of the thorax ; the forehead obtusely 

 angulate in the middle and oblique towards the sides, 

 the foveae situated just behind the eyes and prolonged 

 into the slight impression across the forehead. Thorax 

 small, subeordate, rounded and widest just before the middle, 

 ■with a large rotundate fovea at each side and *an angulate 

 depression in the middle in front of the base, united by a 

 transverse stria ; the basal margin is tripunctate. Elytra 

 suboblong, slightly narrowed near the shoulders, without 

 perceptible punetation , sutural strise well marked, deepest 

 at the base, where there is a small puncture near each ; 

 intra-humeral irapi*essions foveiform. Hind body rather 

 narrower than the elytra but nearly as long, basal segment 

 almost as long as the second or third, the others deilexed. 

 Legs rather slender, simple. 



Antenna shorter than the head and thorax, distinctly 

 pubescent towards the extremity ; second joint oblong-oval, 

 about as long as the basal, third smaller than second, yet 

 distinctly longer than broad, fourth to eighth small and 

 moniliform, fifth and seventh slightly larger, ninth dis- 

 tinctly larger than eighth, but not as bi'oad as the transverse 

 tenth, the terminal conical and acuminate, longer than the 

 preceding two united. 



Male. — Underside chestnut-red, finely pubescent ; abdomen 

 finely punctate, segments 2-4 slightly decreasing, fifth rather 



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