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and depressed, with several fine longitudinal ruga? near the 

 eyes ; the common frontal impressions are ill-defined and 

 appear to form part of the depression between the antennae. 

 Eyes large and prominent, their orbits somewhat swollen. 

 Labrum large, truncate, with six setigerous punctures. 

 Thorax 2\ lines in breadth by If in length ; base and apex 

 slightly emarginate ; widest at the middle, its sides only 

 moderately rounded, more narrowed towards the base than 

 it is in front, with an almost imperceptible sinuosity near 

 the subacute posterior angles ; anterior angles rounded, the 

 marginal channels of equal width throughout ; discoidai 

 furrow deep, distinctly abbreviated in front, basal fossae large 

 and elongate ; its surface uneven but without well-defined 

 impressions. Scutellum scored at base. Elytra suboblong, 

 slightly wider behind than at the base, but sinuously narrowed 

 apically ; they are evidently striate, the eighth striae are 

 punctate, the sculpture of the discoidai stria;, however, is 

 ill-defined, seeming to consist of shallow elongate impressions 

 with slight intervals, some of these appear to encroach on 

 the interstices. 



Underside shining black, bipunetate at each side of the 

 middle, at the apex, of the last ventral segment. Prosternal 

 process broadly and deeply furrowed along its whole length. 



Legs stout ; the intermediate femora strongly inflated, the 

 anterior and posterior remarkably so, being quite bulbous 

 underneath, the hind trochanters very thick and cylindric; 

 tibiae stout, the hind pair with a small tooth on the inner 

 edge near the middle. Anterior tarsi with coarse brush-like 

 soles ; the basal four joints cordiform, the first three more 

 expanded than the fourth, the basal two appear as if their 

 outer angles were slightly prominent. 



Antenna pubescent from the fourth joint onwards, they 

 attain the base of the thorax ; second joint more than half 

 the length of the third ; the basal joint is stout and cylindric 

 and bears a distinct flattened tubercle close to its upper extre- 

 mity and an upstanding seta at the inner side of the tubercle, 



C?. Length 8 ; breadth 2| lines. 



Taranaki. 



Mr. W. W. Smith, who seems to possess the knack of 

 finding curious Carabidae, gave me his unique specimen 

 without mentioning the locality ; but I believe he found it 

 near Mount Egmont. 



Obs. — This conspicuous beetle is of special interest. The 

 remarkable femora, the denticles on the posterior tibiae and 

 on the basal joints of the antennae are without precedent, 

 The dilated joints of the front tarsi, though unsym metrical. 



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