206 On some New Zealand Pselaphidge. 



the larger, both evidently larger than the preceding ones^ the 

 terminal one largest, conical and acurainatei 



Only a single species has been recorded from the same 

 locality — Z.fulgens (3384) ; bnt it is a much broader insect, 

 •with a large Vidamus-Ml'ie head, and, moreover, the lateral 

 thoracic fovese are prolonged as grooves to the front. It 

 differs also from the other members of Section 2 by the more 

 elongate hind body, narrower head, and the almost entire 

 absence of the usual transverse connecting stria between 

 the lateral fovese and basal fossa. 



Length l|j breadth \ mm. 



Greymouth {Mr. R. Helms). One (a female, I believe) 

 from Dr. Sharp's collection, British Museum. 



Group Brachyglutini. 



EupiNES, King. 

 Wytsman's Gen. Ins., Pselapliidte, 1908, p. 200. 



3503. Eupines simplex^ sp. n. 



Glabrous, shining, smooth, moderately convex ; piceo- 

 rufous, with the legs and antennre rufesceut, tarsi and palpi 

 obscurely testaceous. 



Head subquadrate, somewhat narrowed behind the mode- 

 rately large eyes, with two small interocular fovese, and (in 

 the male only) biimpressed in front. Thorax about as long 

 as broad, rounded and widest before the middle, without 

 definite sculpture. Elytra nearly double the length and 

 breadth of the thorax and, in conjunction with the abdomen, 

 of uninterruptedly oval contour, with fine sutural strije. 

 Legs elongate, simple. 



Antenna as long as the head and thorax, their terminal 

 three joints more thickly pubescent than the others and 

 distinctly larger ; basal joint stouter but hardly any longer 

 than the oblong second, third and fourth rather smaller 

 than the following one, seventh and eighth bead-like and 

 slightly broader than the preceding ones, ninth transverse, 

 distinctly broader than the eighth but smaller than the tenth, 

 the terminal one large, subconical, twice the length of the 

 tenth. 



Underside dark red, finely and distantly punctate, with 

 numerous slender, decumbent, yellowish hairs. Metasternum 

 unimpressed. Basal ventral segment invisible in the middle, 

 second nearly as large as the remaining ones combined, the 

 next two very short in the middle, the terminal large. 



