Species of Fsc\i\[)\i\ili\} from Xew ZeahinJ. 693 



tlie usual antebasal impression is distinct. Elytra obloiii^, 

 rather longer and broader than the thorax, moderately nar- 

 rowed near the base ; sutnral strife broad, foveiform at tiie 

 base, intrahumeral impressions foveiform, short, but not deep. 

 Jlind body much shorter than the elytra, linely yet quite 

 perceptibly punctured ; second segment almost as long as the 

 first, longitudinally subcarinate in the middle, and somewhat 

 impressed towards the sides ; the third as long as the first in 

 the middle, broadly rounded there at the apex. 



Legs proportionally moderately stout, the intermediate 

 tibiae armed with a distinct calcar at the inner extremity. 



AntenncB almost as long as the head and thorax, second 

 joint ovitorm and nearly as large as the basal one; joints 3-8 

 monilifmin, the fourth, sixth, and eighth equally small, fifth 

 and seventh very slightly broader; ninth and tenth trans- 

 veise, the former distinctly broader than the eighth, but not 

 quite as broad as the tenth ; the terminal large, conical and 

 subacuminate, and as long as the preceding three united. 



The following are distinctive features ; — The slender 

 form, infuscute surface, the armature of the intermediate 

 tibite, and medially subcarinate second dorsal segment. 

 V. spinipes, 3048, is a larger stoutly built insect, with a 

 spine between the middle and inner apex of the middle tibia, 

 and its thorax is cordate. 



^ . Lengtii 1^; breadth ^ mm. 



Greymouth. One damaged specimen from Mr. J. H. 

 Lewis, 



Zealandius, RafFray. 

 (Genera des Pselaphidae, p. 111.) 



3382. Zealandius raffrayi, sp. n. 



Shining, dark rufous ; legs and untennai paler, tarsi and 

 palpi obscurely fulvescent ; jjubescence pale brassy, decum- 

 bent, rather sliort and thick, but, on the thorax particularly, 

 mingled with very slender hairs ; along the sides and on the 

 hind body there are a few outstanding setae. 



Head large, not quite the breadth of the thorax, narrowed 

 in front of the small coarsely facetted eyes; geiiee nearly 

 straight, with obtuse hind angles; occipital fovese rather 

 large yet not distinctly prolonged forwards, the interautennal 

 portion a little depressed and less evidently punctate than the 

 sides or vertex. Thoraj- of nearly equal length and brtadth, 

 rounded and widest before the middle ; its punctuation irre- 

 gular^ rather indistinct on the disc, but closer and coarser 



