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d 



700 Major T. Broun 07i new 



small and subobconical ; joints 4-8 small, subglobular, and 

 short ; ninth a little broader than eighth, but hardly more 

 than lialf the width of the transverse tenth ; the terminal 

 large, rather short, broadly conical, subacuminate, finely but 

 thickly pubescent, and nearly double the breadth ot the 

 tenth. 



In all three species the antennal structure is almost pre- 

 cisely similar, so, too, is the size of the insects. This species 

 may, however, be considered aberrant, owing to the sub 

 trigonal head and minute eyes. It is rather narrower thai 

 the otiiers, and may be distinguished by the punctation an 

 less definite intrahumeral impressions. 



Ijcngtii quite 1 ; breadth 1 mm. 



Retaruke Forest, near Erua. I found a solitary individual 

 amongst decayed leaves collected for me by C'apt. Whitehorn 

 in April 1910. 



KexoC(ELUS; gen. nov. 



Body only moderately elongate in the male ; in the female 

 narrower, with the elytra somewhat rounded at the sides and 

 more narrowed towards the base and the hind body more 

 horizontal. 



Head quadrate, much shorter than the thorax, plane above, 

 sliort and vertical in front, without antennal tubercles, vertex 

 bifoveolate ; the lower surface at eacii side is slightly dilated 

 in front of the eyes, and prolonged forwards as a process 

 which, in front, is slightly separated from the side; just 

 above this there is a cavity in wliich the maxillary palpus is 

 accommodated and almost entirely concealed from above. 

 Thorax longer than broad, with a sulciform median fossa 

 near tlie base and a fovea at each side ; these are more or less 

 indefinitely united, according to the point of view, by a linear 

 transverse impression. Khjira subquadrate, obviously 

 broader than the thorax, with distinct sutural stris3 anl a 

 short foveiform impression near each shoulder. Hind body 

 rather shorter than the elytra, its first and second visible 

 segments broadly margined, horizontal, and subequal, the 

 third with thinner margin:', this and the following two 

 gradually deflexed. 



Lf^s stout and elongate; tibia? arcuate externally; basal 

 joint of the tarsi minute, the intermediate nearly double the 

 length of the third, with a single claw. 



Antennce 11-articulate, as long as the head and thorax, 

 stout, of nearly the same thickness throughout, inserted 

 within the upper part of the cavity occupied by the palpi ; 



