New Zealand Pselapliidae. 205 



The head and thorax are longer than those of V. modestus, 

 the sutural striie are deeper and broader, the anteunac are 

 more iuerassate towards tlie extremity, and tlie metasteriial 

 foveaj have not been noticed in any other species. 



Length 2 ; breadth nearly .', mm. 



Grey mouth {Helms). One from Dr. Sharp's collection, 

 British Museum. 



Zealandius, Raffray. 



Wytsman's Gen. Ins., PselapbiJ:e, lUOS, p. HI. 



3502. Zealandius foveali.t, sp. n. 



Elongate, rather narrow, nitid, head subopaque ; clothed 

 with decumbent greyish pul)escence and long upright setai ; 

 dark rufous, legs and antennie pale chestuut-red, tarsi and 

 palpi tlavescent. 



Head smaller than the thorax, narrowed in front of the 

 minute eyes ; genaj slightly narrowed behind, witlj obtuse 

 angles, moderately closely and distinctly punctate ; antennal 

 tubercles distant and slightly elevated, the foveie small, 

 situated just behind the eyes and only indistinctly prolonged 

 to the flattened forehead. Thorax subcordate, widest before 

 the middle, more gradually narrowed behind than in front, 

 of about equal length and breadth, more distinctly punc- 

 tured near the base than elsewhere ; discal furrow mode- 

 rately deep and extending from near the apex to the angular 

 basal depression ; lateral fovcie subrotundate, without any 

 perceptible anterior prolongation, and not dcHnitely con- 

 nected with the basal fossa. Elytra scarcely longer than 

 broad, curvedly nax'rowed towards the base and but little 

 wider than the thorax there ; they are only slightly trans- 

 versely convex and somewhat indefinitely punctured ; 

 sutural striae broad, foveiform and deep at the base, and 

 apparently duplicated, the dorsal nearly similar but more 

 shallow behind, the interstices earinate. Addornen as long as 

 the wing-cases, as broad at the base, but narrowed and 

 detlexed posteriorly ; basal three segments nearly horizontal 

 and slightly increasing. 



Antenna as long as the head and thorax, rather thickly 

 pubescent towards the extremity ; basal joint reel, cylindrical, 

 its length nearly double the breadth, second shorter, oljloug- 

 oval, the next distinctly narrowed at the base, joints 4-7 

 monililorm and almost equal, eighth smaller than seventh, 

 contracted apically, ninth and tenth subquadrate, the latter 



