204 Major T. Broun on some 



shorter than fourth, slightly hut widely emarginate hehind, 

 sixth large, deeply medially coucave hehind, the supple- 

 mentary one suhquadiate. 



Much more slender than Sharp's E?/pIecti(S convexus (254) 

 and differing from all the older species descrihed hy myself 

 hy the shorter, posteriorly narrowed, head of the female and 

 other details. 



Length 1§ ; breadth \ mm. 



Tairua, Auckland. Three found by myself and sent to 

 Dr. Sharp about forty years ago. In the British Museum. 



3501. Vidamus sternalis, sp. n. 



Elongate, subdepressed, shining, finely punctate, with 

 fine, suberect, yellowish-grey pubescence ; head, thorax, 

 and abdomen castaneo-rufous ; elytra, legs, and antennae 

 fulvescent. 



Head not perceptibly narrower than the middle of the 

 thorax, with rounded hind angles ; the fovese are placed 

 near the base and extend forwards as broad channels to the 

 slightly raised frontal margin ; when examined sideways the 

 transverse frontal impression seems obsolete. Thorax slightly 

 longer than broad, rounded and widest just before the 

 middle, the postmedian depression angular and ending as a 

 puncture at the basal margin ; there is another basal punc- 

 ture at each'side of the middle ; lateral fovese deep, united 

 to the central depression by a groove. Elytra suboblong, 

 a little narrowed near the shoulders, fully a third longer 

 and broader than the thorax ; sutural strise well marked, 

 punctiform at the base, and with a small basal puncture 

 alongside each ; intra-humeral impressions short, each 

 minutely bipunctate at the base. Hind body as long as the 

 elytra, the intermediate segments about equal. Leys simple. 



AntenncB as long as the head and thorax; second joint sub- 

 quadrate and shorter than the basal one, third and fifth 

 slightly larger than the fourth, joints 6-8 slightly increasing 

 in breadth, ninth not as broad as the transverse tenth 

 terminal one twice the length of its predecessor. 



Underside chestnut-red. Metasternum with a punctiform 

 fovea behind each of the middle coxae and another near each 

 side. Abdomen elongate ; second and third segments equal, 

 each longer than the basal one, fifth densely and minutely 

 setose in front, with a linear impression across the middle, 

 so that this segment seems duplicated (no distinct suture, 

 however, can be seen), sixth large, slightly rounded behind, 

 but damaged and detached. 



