090 Major T. Broun on new 



very closely jillied, but joints 5-7 of the antennae arc oblong- 

 oval and the head is slightly broader. 



(^ . Length 1_| ; brcadtii ^ mm. 



►Southland. A single individual from Mr. A. Piiilpolt. 



3379. Eupleclopsis tumidus, sp. n. 



Shining, somewhat convex, moderately elongate ; san- 

 guineous or rufo-castaneous, rather variable; legs and an- 

 teniice paler, tarsi and juilpi fulvescent ; jmbescence yellowish, 

 rather short and more or less curled, the hind body with a 

 few long erect hairs. 



Head rather smaller than the thorax, slightly rounded 

 behind the rather small medially situated eyes ; antennal 

 tubercles distant and subrotimdate, not ])rominent ; the surface 

 distinctly and near the sides closely punctate, the rounded 

 fovese not very deep or siiarply defined, and more or less con- 

 fluent with the frontal impression. Thorax cordiform, about 

 as long as broad, indistinctly punctate; the median furrow 

 deep and broad, extending from the front to the deep, sub- 

 quadrate, basal fossa ; the lateral fovese large, but becoming 

 linear towards the apex, with a thin transverse impression 

 uniting them with the central fossa. Elytra slightly broader 

 than long, evidently larger than the thorax, curvedl}' nar- 

 rowed near the base ; sutural striae well marked, deeper and 

 foveate at the base, the dorsal ones also decj) and broad, but 

 becoming shallow before the middle. Hind body shorter than 

 the elytra, its first segment horizontal, broadly medially im- 

 pressed at the base, the others gradually deflexed. Legs 

 simple, tibiae nearly straight. 



Antennoi shorter than the head and thorax, rather slender, 

 finely and scantily pubescent; basal joint red, slightly 

 longer than the oblong-oval second ; joints 3-9 hardly differ, 

 all subglobular and small ; tenth transverse, evidently 

 broader than the preceding ones; eleventh a little broader 

 than tenth at the base, conical and distinctly acuminate, and, 

 including the narrow apical appendage, as long as the pre- 

 ceding four combined. 



Male. — Underside fusco-rufons, very thinly clothed ; the 

 head with elongate erect seta?, relatively coarsel}' punctate, 

 with a slender frontal carina and a large de))ression at the 

 base. Prosternum with a fine carina along the middle. 

 Abdomen rather longer than the convex metasternum : basal 

 segment covered by the femora, second rather large, broadly 

 medially eniarginate at the apex, much swollen outwardly ; 

 third, in front, witii a deep sinuosity at each side of tlic 



