Species <>f 'Sew-Zealaad Coleoptera. 227 



eyes these become quite distinct. Clypeus very short, iafus- 

 cate. Labrum medially emarginate, with a membranous 

 border beyond the setse. Eyes longitudinally oval, mode- 

 rately convex and occupying more than half of each side. 

 Thorax as long as it is broad, rounded behind; with two 

 punctures before the middle, one larger near each anterior 

 angle, another close to each side near the middle, and some 

 smaller ones at the basal margin. Scutellum large. Elytra 

 of the same length as, but rather broader than, the thorax 

 behind, rather closely and somewhat transversely minutely 

 punctate-granulate and rugose, clothed, like the scutellum, 

 for the most part Avith pale yellowish hairs, the suture 

 reddish, and with three or four obscure rufo-piceous sp its on 

 each ; apices oblique towards the suture. Hind body clothed 

 with cinereous hairs, and here and there with small patches 

 of yellow ones, the long setse fuscous ; it is moderately 

 closely punctate, with stout pitchy-red styles. Male anterior 

 tarsi strongly dilated. 



Dr. Sharp's Q. latifrons differs in having a short thorax 

 and somewhat different sculpture. 



Length 3^-1; breadth |-| line. 



Broken River. One male from J. H. Lewis and another 

 from Mr. A. Philpott, of luvercargill. 



Group Paederidae. 

 Hyperomma tenellum, sp. n. 



Slender, elongate, shining, rufo-piceous ; legs infuscate 

 red, tarsi and antennae rufo-testaceous, mandibles red. 



Head evidently longer than broad, scarcely at all rounded, 

 the front almost smooth, the middle also nearly smooth, 

 there being a few fine punctures only, the base and sides 

 with moderately coarse but not close punctures, and bearing 

 some outstanding slender obscvire greyish hairs. Eyes small, 

 not convex. Thorax nearly twice as long as broad, obliquely 

 narrowed near the base; on each side of the middle there is 

 a series of distinct punctures, there are two less regular at 

 each side, and the minute intervening punctures are almost 

 serial. Elytra abbreviated, only about one-half longer than 

 broad, shoulders rounded, apices obliquely truncate towards 

 the suture ; their punctuation like that of the thorax, at 

 each side of the disk there is one regular series, there are 

 very few minute punctures. Abdomen elongate, finely, 

 irregularly, and rather closely punctate and pubescent, basal 

 four segments with thick margins, the terminal with elongate 

 appendages. 



Mandibles very elongate and strongly curved, minutely 



