Coleoptera from New Zealand. 73 



Tlic stature is pfroatcr than tliat of P. delicatus (No. 1G97), 

 the eyes are slin;htly larger, and the thighs are medially 

 inflated. In No^ l(){)7 there is a transverse depression at the 

 base of tiie first dorsal segment; the hairs on the surface are 

 more distinct and much more numerous ; the sculpture and 

 channel on the head arc indctinite; the base of the first 

 ventral segment is fringed with yellow hairs, and the central 

 impression is only of moderate size and depth, and does not 

 attain the apex. P. Cavelli, which also has swollen femora, 

 can be easily sej)arated. 



r?. Length I, breadth quite j line. 



Mount Pirongia. Four individuals, December 1893. 



Br y axis Hectori, sp. n. 



Nit id, nearly glabrous; sanguineous, the legs paler red, 

 palpi and tarsi yellowish. 



Jlead subquadrate, with two obvious interocular fovefe and 

 a broad frontal impression. Ei/es prominent. Thorax of 

 about equal length and breadth, the middle widest, without 

 sculpture. Elytra oblong, sliglitly rounded laterally, mode- 

 rately convex, with fine sutural striai. Jlind body short, 

 much deflexed, more evidently (yet only finely) pubescent 

 than the rest of the body. Legs of moderate length and 

 thickness, the tibiie nearly quite straight. 



Antenme 10-articulate, as long as the head and thorax ; 

 the basal two joints of about equal length ; third rather shorter 

 than second, distinctly narrowed towards the base ; fourth 

 and sixth small, moniliform ; fifth larger than the contiguous 

 ones; seventh and eighth transverse, not broader than the 

 fifth ; ninth subquadrate, only very slightly longer than 

 broad; tenth ovate, quite as long as the preceding one. The 

 two enlarged terminal joints are darker and more coarsely and 

 densely pilose than the others. 



Underside rufescent. Metasternum broadly impressed. 

 Basal ventral segment largest, bituberculate near apex ; fifth 

 broadly depressed at the base. 

 (J . Length |, breadth \ line. 



Tarukenga, near Uotorua. Two males. 



Named in honour of Sir James Hector, the Director of the 

 Colonial Museum. 



Sagola ruyifrons, sp. n. 



Rufescent, legs and elytra rufo-testaceous ; tarsi and palpi 

 yellow ; pubescence conspicuous. 



Jlead smaller than thorax, considerably narrowed behind 



