C96 Maior T. Biouti on new 



Underside finely and irregularly punctate and pubescent. 

 Head with a well-marked basal fovea and a fine longitudinal 

 carina in front. Prosternum finely carinate alon^ the 

 middle. Metasternum with a large median fovea. Ventral 

 segments 2-4 very short in the middle, fifth excessively 

 reduced in length, almost linear; the f^ixth in the middle as 

 long as the preceding three conjointly, witii a large central 

 impression, the terminal as long as the sixth but narrower. 

 Posterior coxas prominent, the trochanters subtriangular and 

 acutely produced or medially spiniform behind. 



The foveate metasternum and penultimate ventral segment, 

 the spiniform posterior trochanters, abbreviated basal ventral 

 segments, and the structure of the middle pair of tibiae are 

 good distinguisiiing characters. 



S- Length l^; breadth ^ mm. 



Mimnt Pirongia, December 1909. A single male is all I 

 could find. 



3381. Zealandiua fulgens, sp. n. 



Subdepressed, moderately broad, quite glossy; castaneo- 

 rufous, legs and antenuEe somewhat fulvescent, tarsi and palpi 

 testaceous ; pubescence yellowish grey ; the punctation 

 obsolete. 



Female. — JItad as large as the thorax, gradu:iHy narrowed 

 before the minute eyes, feebly rounded behind them, with 

 obtuse hind angles, its sculpture rendered indistinct by the 

 ])ubescence; the fovese moderate, not deeply prolonged ante- 

 riorly, antennal tubercles small and distant. Thorax broadly 

 cordate, median groove rather deep and broad, extending 

 IVom the front to the deep, angular, basal fossa; lateral tbvece 

 deep and subrotundate, not distinctly united to the central 

 fossa ; the sides in front of them appear swollen. Klytra 

 nearly a third longer than the thorax, a little broader than 

 they are long, gradually narrowed towards the base, with 

 rounded shoulders ; the sutural and dorsal striaj broad, deep 

 near the base, rather shallow near the apices, the intervals 

 convex, lateral stria3 indefinite. Hind body as long as the 

 elytra, basal three segments equal, the others dotloxed. 



Antenuce hardly as long as the head and thorax, mode- 

 rately stout ; basal joint rufous, cylindric, its length nearly 

 double the breadth, second oblong-oval, much shorter than 

 the first but as thick, third small and obconical ; joints 4-6 

 small and monililbrm, the fifth and seventh only slightly 

 larger; ninth lather broader than eighth, but not as large as 



