OF NEW ZEALAND. 25 



hinder tarsi are more perceptibly grooved, and the soles somewhat 

 sponge-like. 



The insect is of a moderately shining pitchy black, with reddened 

 margins ; palpi and legs reddish. 



Length, 5 lines. 



I found one example near Whangarei Heads. 



53. A. (Platynus) deplanatus, White \ Voy.Ereb. Terr., Ins., 

 p. 3. Head and thorax shining black ; elytra dull black ; head with 

 some rather large impressed points on the sides in front, and a trans- 

 verse impressed line behind the eyes ; thorax in the middle, behind and 

 in front with many close striae, placed longitudinally ; a deepish groove 

 in the middle and two very distinct, longish fossae behind, one on each 

 side ; elytra above depressed ; the grooves not very deep ; the second, 

 seventh, and eighth bent at the end ; a row of dots near the margin ; 

 legs black, tarsi reddish. 



Length, 5 lines. 



New Zealand, Capt Parry. 



Syn. Anchomenus atratus, Blanch., Voy. au Pole Sud, Zool. p. 21, 



1853- 



NOTE. Mr. White leaves us to " imagine " the form of the insect. 

 Mr. Bates, in his note to this species in the Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 

 March-April, 1874, states: " Blanchard's description is so vague that 

 it is difficult to determine to which of the New Zealand species of the 

 same size (12 to 14 millims.) it applies. Judging from the figure and 

 the expressions ' ater, obscurus' and ' elytres obscures planes,' I refer to 

 it a slender, sub-opaque species existing in some of the London collec- 

 tions, and remarkable for the very sharp furrows and ridges of all the 

 tarsi, and for the uneven slightly rugose thorax, which is sub-cordate in 

 form, but with produced and rather acute hind angles. The head and 

 eyes are very similar in form to those of P. scrobiculatus of Europe. 

 White's description agrees pretty well with the same insect, and I have 

 little hesitation in adopting the name, although I have not seen his 

 type." 



54. AnchomemiS OtagOensiS, Bates; Entom. Mon. Mag., 

 July, 1878, /. 27. Elongatus, deplanatus, nigro-piceus, opacus ; anten- 

 nis, palpis, pedibusque omnino melleo-fulvis : labro late emarginato ; 

 collo haud sulcato ; thorace elongato-quadrato, postice longe, sinuatim sed 

 modice angustato, angulis posticis subacutis ; supra impunctato, utrinque 

 linea curvata paulo impressa a basi fere ad marginem anticum ducta ; 

 elytris planis, elongato-ovatis, prope apicem fortiter sinuatis, apice sutu- 

 rali obtuso, subtruncatis ; supra subtiliter striatis, interstitiis planis. 



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Allied to A. deplanatus, White, from which it is at once dis- 

 tinguished by the tawny-yellow colour of antennae, palpi, and legs. 

 From other allied species it is distinguishable by the form of the thorax, 

 which is not at all strongly narrowed behind, but gradually and slightly, 

 the anterior part of the sides being also gently rounded ; the shallow 



