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two pairs are armed on their outer edge with spine-like teeth. The 

 sides of the breast are rather coarsely punctured, the basal segment of 

 the abdomen is more or less punctate, though nearly smooth on the 

 middle, and the other segments are punctured along their apex ; the 

 posterior femora are smooth, the anterior more coarsely punctured than 

 the intermediate. 



Length, 2j lines. 



The above corresponds with specimens in my own collection ; Mr. 

 White's description is rather meagre, so I have substituted one by 

 myself, not because the insect could not be identified by means of 

 White's diagnosis, but because I deemed an accurate description very 

 necessary for reasons given in a paper on the habits of the New Zealand 

 Histeridcz. (Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. \\.) 



297. S. punctulipennis, n.s. Oviform, of a moderately shining 

 reddish-piceous colour, the legs and antennae pitchy-red, the club 

 broadly oval, the basal antennal joint sub-pyriform, the second reddish- 

 yellow. Head very delicately punctulated. Thorax transversal, nar- 

 rowed towards the front, the base obliquely truncated at each side of 

 the middle ; it is closely, but not deeply or coarsely punctured, with a 

 small depression in front of the scutellum. The elytra have, on each, 

 six finely punctured strise ; the three inner nearly straight, almost 

 touching the base, where they are well-marked ; the others do not 

 approach the base so closely, and are more or less curved ; all the strise 

 become indistinct towards the apex ; the interstices are rather flat and 

 punctulated, so that the elytra are not at all smooth. Pygidium shining, 

 reddish, and seemingly impunctate. Tibia with the outer edge finely 

 serrated. 



Length, f line. 



Described from one individual, which I found at Tairua. The 

 genus is somewhat doubtful. 



298. S. pedator, Sharp ; Ent. Mon. Mag., vol. xiii., /. 25. 

 Angusttdus, convexus, nigro-piceus, impunctatus; elytris stria suturali 

 integra, striisque 5-6 basalibus abbreviatis ; tibiis anterioribus edentatis ; 

 extus grosse ciliatis, intermediis et posterioribus dilatatis, extus grosse 

 punctatis. 



Long, corp., 4-4 \ mm. 



Antenna pitchy. Mandibles greatly exposed. Head with a very 

 deep arched impression extending across it at the base of the mandi- 

 bles, and also with an arched impressed line connecting the posterior 

 portions of the eyes. Thorax short, considerably rounded at the sides, 

 impunctate. Elytra with a well-marked sutural stria, and with five or 

 six oblique short basal striae ; impunctate. Pygidium impunctate. 

 Front tibia reddish, broad, rounded externally, and toothless, but 

 fringed with coarse parchment-like cilise. Middle and hind tibiae much 

 dilated, furnished externally with large deep pits, in each of which is 

 placed a coarse cilia, these ciliae on the middle tibiae are moderately 

 long, but those on the hind pair are very short. Hind femora much 



