Species of New-Zealand Coleoptera. 419 



Thorax If lines in length and breadth, slightly wider near 

 the front than it is behind, its sides very slightly curved, 

 margins well developed ; the base medially incurved and 

 slightly obliquely rounded towards each side, so that the 

 angles are obsolete, the apex subtruncate or just perceptibly 

 emarginate; disk smooth, central groove distinct but not 

 attaining the apex ; basal fossae large and well defined, placed 

 nearer the sides than the middle. Scutellum striate at base. 

 Elytra elongate, very little wider than thorax, subparallel, 

 shoulders somewhat curvedly narrowed, so as to scarcely 

 exceed the base of thorax in width, rather broad at the extre- 

 mity, and with only a short sinuation near it ; the stria? are 

 not deep, they are somewhat confused near the apex and are 

 finely punctured, the punctuation of the third and fourth 

 sometimes effaced, seventh indistinct, the punctures near the 

 lateral margins rather large and distinctly separated ; inter- 

 stices but little convex, with two punctures on the third 

 behind the middle. 



Legs stout ; posterior femora not angulate below ; inter- 

 mediate tibise slightly dilated along the inner face. 



There are four setae along each side of the thorax ; there 

 are no scutellar striolee. 



Of peculiarly elongate subparallel outline. Like P. incon- 

 stans, but differing from it in the darker legs, absence of 

 catenulate elytral sculpture, and by the deeply striate 

 scutellum, &c. 



$ . Length 7 ; breadth 2 lines. 



West Plains, Invercargill. 



One pair from Mr. A. Philpott, whose name it bears. 



Pterostichus lepidulus, sp. n. 



Suldepressed, elongate, moderately shining, black; legs 

 piceous, the front tarsi and last seven joints of antennae rufo- 

 fuscous ; the basal four joints of the latter, the palpi, and 

 mandibles pitchy red. 



Head nearly as long and (including the very prominent 

 eyes) as broad as thorax, with fine oblique rugae near each 

 eye, frontal impressions not elongate ; labrum widely eraar- 

 giuate. Antennce reach backwards to base of thorax, fourth 

 joint very slightly longer than third. Thorax widest near 

 the middle, moderately rounded, gradually narrowed behind, 

 posterior angles rectangular, base medially incurved, apex 

 slightly emarginate, it is one-fourth broader than long; disk 

 nearly flat, basal fossae elongate, sulciform, situated halfway 

 between the middle and sides, dorsal furrow well marked but 



