Q22 Major T. Broun on some 



that a large specimen is less than the sixth of an inch in 

 length. 



These insects are not agriculturalists' pests. Many years 

 ago I found them destroying Acarida?, and during Oct. 1911 

 I kept three specimens of Sagola eminens (2724) under close 

 observation, along with the dead vegetable rubbish, Acaridse, 

 Lipuridse, &c., amongst which they were found, and watched 

 ihem feeding on the Lipurce. 



The remainder of the specimens, belonging principally to 

 the Euplectini, will, if all goes well, be dealt with in a 

 later paper. TliOS. BkOUN. 



The numbers are in correspondence with the author's 

 * Manual of New Zealand Coleoptera.' 



3482. Sagola carinata, s}). n. 



Shining, sanguineous ; legs and antennae paler ; pubes- 

 cence yellowish, rather elongate^ subdepressed, mingled with 

 longer erect setse on the wing-cases and abdomen : the body 

 elongate and subdepressed. 



Head rather smaller than the thorax, gradually narrowed 

 behind the eyes, with obtuse hind angles ; it is finely 

 and indefinitely punctate; along the middle there is a 

 carina which, in front, is transformed into a very slender 

 groove ; this separates the fiat antennal tubercles ; occipital 

 foveas punctiform, yet moderately large. T'hora.v sub- 

 cordate, rounded and widest before tlie middle, more obliquely 



