Species o/Pselaphidae/rom Neio Zealand. 489 



would be almost worthless for the purpose of identification ; 

 but as most oL" them are really beautiful objects under a 

 microscope, the prolonged stutly now necessary for the 

 determination of species is not an altogether unwelcome 

 task. 



Experience proves that many species are confined to very 

 limited areas. The extermination therefore of these harmless 

 little creatures during the progress of settlement will, I feel 

 sure, be sincerely regretted by all naturalists, most of all by 

 our successors. 



T. Broust. 



Mount Albert, 



Auckland, S'.Z., 

 2otli July, 1911. 



List of Species described herein. 



3361. Sagola puncticeps 



3369. Sagola lon^icollis. 



3361. Sagola puncticeps, sp. n. 



Elongate, shining, body entirely dark fusco-rufous, legs 

 pale chestnut-red, tarsi and palpi flavescent; pubescence 

 greyish, rather scanty, thicker on the hind body. 



Head moderately convex, nearly as wide as the thorax, 

 almost obliquely narrowed behind the eyes ; antennal 

 tubercles slightly elevated, but only in front, rather more 

 closely and distinctly punctured than the other parts ; 

 frontal channel deep and moderately broad, extending as far 

 as the back of the eyes, occipital fovese rather large. 

 Thorax cordate, its length and breadth about equal, widest 

 before the middle, apparently impunctate ; the median im- 

 pression large, irregularly subquadrate, the small basal 

 toveae not distinctly separated from it; lateral foveas large, 

 extending from the base to the middle. Klytra slightly 

 longer than the thorax, obviout^ly broader behind than at the 

 base, their apices truncate; sutural strije broad and deep, 

 the dorsal composed of a basal puncture and an elonga'e 

 impression which reaches backwards to the middle; near the 

 sides and apices some fine shallow punctures are discernible, 

 and across the front face of the basal margin there is a series 

 of distinct punctures. Hind hodij rather longer than the 



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