414 On new New-Zealand Coleojjtera. 



head is very oviform, the eyes rather distant from the thorax, 

 flat, and strongly transverse, the basal margin of the thorax 

 is more distinct and more protuberant at the sides, the hind 

 tibiae are stout and curvate, and the notch of the maxillary 

 palpi is wide but not deep ; in S. rectipes the apical emargi- 

 nation of the palpi is more like that of the typical species, 

 S. cyanea, but the insect itself is smaller. 



^ . Length 3^ ; breadth 1| line. 



Otira Gorge. One ; found by Mr. J. H. Lewis. 



Baculipalpus maritimus, sp. n. 



Elongate, subdepressed, slightly nitid, testaceous; tips of 

 mandibles and the tibial spurs piceous ; elytra sometimes 

 with a pale fuscous vitta along each side; clothed with fine, 

 slender, decumbent hairs similar in colour to the derm. 



Head not constricted behind, vertex convex, depressed 

 anteriorly, and finely setose there, with an angular infuscate 

 space behind each eye ; its surface not very closely punc- 

 tured, interstices minutely sculptured; epistome and labrum 

 truncate in front, both a little depressed in the middle. 

 7'Aora.r subcylindric, moderately narrowed behind the middle, 

 base and apex slightly incurved ; its surface a little uneven, 

 its sculpture like that of the head, rather shallow. Scutellum 

 curvilinearly triangular, not smooth. Elytra elongate and 

 subparallel, rather wider than thorax at the base, apices 

 rather sharply rounded individually, so that the apical ventral 

 segment is visible between them — it does not, however, pro- 

 trude; inside each shoulder an indistinctly elevated line 

 proceeds backwards, the sculpture is shallow, rather coarser 

 than that of the thorax, and a little rugose. Legs long and 

 slender. 



Tibia finely bicalcarate. Front tarsi rather narrow, basal 

 joint elongate and cylindrical ; second and third triangular; 

 penultimate rather short, hardly at all expanded, excavate 

 above but not truly lobate ; fifth slender, claws thickened 

 and angulate at base ; basal joint of the posterior longer 

 than the remaining three combined. Eyes large^ transverse, 

 not rotundate, almost truncate in front and behind, distinctly 

 facetted, extending downwards, and not prominent as in 

 Thelyphassa and Dammarobius. Mandibles bifid at apex. 

 Maxillary palpi elongate, basal joint short, second elongate, 

 third short, oblique at extremity ; the terminal attached to 

 the preceding one by a short stalk near its hiuder part, so 

 that the long frontal portion extends forwards three or four 

 times as much as the other part is prolonged backwards ; the 



