Species o/ Pselaphidie/rom Xew ZeuhinJ. G97 



the transverse tenth ; the terminal larcje, conical, and acumi- 

 nate, about as lonp: as the precedins: three combined. 



Male. — Underside sh'uuu'^ chestnnt-red, witii fine yellowish 

 pubescence. Head foveate behind. Prosternam rather 

 short, carinate along tiie middle. Metasternum with a sub- 

 rotundate depression. Intermediate and posterior trochanters 

 spined. Abdomen with segments 2-6 decreasing in length, 

 the second medially convex and with a linear impression 

 towards each side, the frontal suture of t\\e third open and 

 rather deep, with a small central depression within it; sixth 

 slightly shorter than fifth, widely emarginate, the supple- 

 mentary obtusely triangular. 



The male characters of the North Island Z. rajfrayi and 

 Z. illustris are suflSciently distinctive. The female is 

 obviously more glossy, broader, and with thicker legs than 

 the same sex of Z. usiiufus, 3050, from Broken River. The 

 head is broader behind the eyes. Th« thorax is evidently 

 broader, with much deeper imytressions, and the elytral stria3 

 are deej)er. The antenna? are longer and stouter, with larger 

 tenth and eleventh joints. 



Length 2 ; breadth § mm. 



Greymouth. Two specimens fv^xn ^Ir. J. }L Lewis, the 

 male unfortunately without the miudle pj»ir of legs. 



Alloplectus, gen. nov. 



Body moderately elongate, subdepressed. Head sliorter 

 than tlie thorax, as broad in line with the eyes, obliquely 

 narrowed anteriorly, gena? nearly straigiit, with obtuse angles ; 

 bifoveate in line with the front of the eyes, and with a 

 median groove behind. Eyes rather large but only slightly 

 convex, situated just behind the middle, extending down- 

 wards and occupying a larger space underneath than above. 

 Anten7ial tubercles small, moderately elevated, subcontiguous. 

 Thorax longer than broad, rounded, and slightly wider before 

 the middle than at the base ; without discoidal impressions, 

 but with a well-marked linear impression in front of the 

 base uniting with the elongate lateral fovese. Elytra obloug, 

 about twice the length of the thorax, slightly narrowed 

 towards the base ; sutural strice deep, punctitorm at the base, 

 the dorsal also deep but only moderately elongate. Hind 

 body much shorter than the elytra, the basal three visible 

 segments margined, the first rather longer than the second, 

 horizontal, the others deflexed, but not abruptly. 



