Species of 'Psc\a[>\ndai from Neto Zealand. 493 



and palpi yellow ; pubescence greyish yellow, slender, sub- 

 erect behind. 



Head nearly as large as the thorax, moderately curved ly 

 narrowed behind the eyes, posterior angles obtuse, antennal 

 tubercles a little elevated but flattened towards the front ; 

 the median channel deep, extending nearly to the base but 

 narrower there than it is between the eyes, occipital f'ovese 

 small and punctiforui ; eyes slightly prominent. Thorax 

 subcordate, widest near the middle, slightly broader than 

 lonrr ; median depression subquadrate, basal fovese small and 

 ])unctirorm, the lateral large and deep and extending for- 

 wards to the middle. Elijtra nearly quite flat, not double 

 the length of the thorax, fully as broacl behind as they are 

 long, moderately narrowed before the middle ; sutural strije 

 somewhat contracted near the base and finely tripunctate 

 there, alongside each there are two, or three, basal punctures, 

 apparently not a constant character ; the dorsal striai do not 

 reach the smooth base and consist of two basal punctures and 

 a large impression behind these. Hind body slightly longer 

 tlian the elytra, the first visible segment is much shorter tiian 

 the next and bears some minute brassy scales, fourth con- 

 siderably narrowed apically, fifth prominent, horizontal and 

 narrow. 



Ze^^ moderately elongate ; tibia3 straight inwardly, slightly 

 arched externally. 



Aiitennce as long as the head and tliorax, with long slender 

 jiubescence; basal joint rather longer, than the second and 

 third combined ; second thick, quite as lonf^ as broad, sub- 

 ovate, third very small and subglobular ; joints 4-8 about 

 equal, as long as they are broad but distinctly contracted 

 ajjically so as to appear laxly articulated, ninth and tenth 

 slightly broader, transverse, the terminal rather longer. 



Underside apparently impunctate, clothed with distinct 

 yellow hairs, llead with a broad central depression, without 

 cilia. Fourth ventral segment very slightly longer than the 

 third ; fifih rather shorter, feebly medially impressed, trun- 

 cate behind ; sixth short, also truncate, supplementary segment 

 narrow, rounded apically, somewhat concave along the 

 middle. 



>S'. puncticej^s is at once distinguishable by the deflexed 

 terminal dorsal segment and the punctate, though similarly 

 formed head. S. duplicuta, near which this should be 

 placed, may be recognized almost at a glance by the very 

 obsolete, or entirely absent, occipital foveae. 



(J . Length 2^ ; breadth | mm. 



Greymouth. When first received from Mr. J. H. Lewis 



