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date, with a large deep fovea behind the middle, a smaller one near 

 each posterior angle, and a larger one at the side, but distant from the 

 base ; the sides are a good deal narrowed behind, and bear four or five 

 minute denticles between the middle and the base. Elytra longer than 

 thorax, wider than it behind, their shoulders narrow, the base bisinuated, 

 but not so strongly as in S. deformipes ; each elytron with a broad sutu- 

 ral stria most strongly impressed near the base, and an elongate depres- 

 sion between it and the shoulder, having an aciculate impression pro- 

 ceeding from it down the disc; the humeral angles are prominent, 

 being distinctly elevated. Hind-body quite as long as, and broader than 

 the elytra, the basal segment distinctly depressed along the base, and 

 the last somewhat produced, and not at all deflexed. The whole of the 

 body is more or less pubescent. The tibia are a little arcuated ; the 

 tarsi stout, somewhat dilated at the extremity, and furnished with rather 

 strong claws. 



Length, ij line. 



My unique example was found at Tairua. The sub-dentate pro- 

 thorax will serve to distinguish it. 



Euplectus. 



Leach; Lacord. Hist, des Ins. Coleop., Tom. ii.,/. 177. 



Maxillary palpi moderate, four-jointed ; second rather long, some- 

 what clavate ; third sub-globular ; fourth ovate, thickened, and sharp at 

 the end, sometimes a little shortened obliquely. 



Head trigonal, rather short. Antenna inserted below the edge of the 

 forehead, distant, moderate, sometimes short, eleven-jointed ; their basal 

 joint stout ; second more slender, cylindric ; ninth and tenth trans- 

 versal ; eleventh more or less large, short-oval. Prothorax longer than 

 broad, a little narrowed behind. Elytra widened behind, or parallel. 

 Abdomen margined at the sides, composed of six segments, the two last 

 seldom very distinct above, the first four of equal length. Legs rather 

 long; the first tarsal joint very small; the two following equal, or nearly 

 so ; the last with one rather long claw. 



Body of variable form, sometimes rather short, sometimes linear and 

 depressed. 



254. E. COnveXTIS, Sharp; Trans. Entom. Soc., 1874, Dec., 

 p. 509. Rufescens, pube brevi depressa dense vestitus : f rente profunde 

 bisulcata; prothorace angustulo, basin versus impressionibus tribus 

 magnis ; elytris stria suturali basi profunde impressa ; impressioneque 

 intra-humerali bene distincta ; antennis articulo ultimo acuminato. 



Long, corp., 2\ mm. 



Mas. Pedibus omnibus incrassatis, tibiis posterioribus intus angulatis. 



Antennae, shorter than head and thorax, second joint not so long as 

 first ; joints three to nine bead-like, differing little from one another, 

 except that the ninth is a little broader than the others ; tenth joint 

 short, rather strongly transverse, about twice as broad as ninth ; eleventh 

 joint large, broader than the tenth. Head rather long and narrow, very 



