OF NEW ZEALAND. 423 



Baculipalpus. 



Nov. gen. 



Body elongate, sub-depressed. Maxillary palpi very long, their teF 

 minal joint very large but narrow, sublunate, exactly resembling the top 

 of a crutch with its hind part fractured. Eyes large, rounded, their 

 anterior portion very slightly truncated, moderately facetted, and situa- 

 ted near the middle of the head. Head as wide as prothorax, rounded 

 behind, somewhat elongated anteriorly. Antennce placed laterally in 

 front of the eyes, with a rather long flexuose basal joint which is rather 

 slender near the base ; second short ; third and fourth of about equal 

 size (the others broken off). Prothorax longer than broad, a little 

 dilated in front of the middle, narrowed posteriorly ; its apex is some- 

 what emarginate ; the base with a small scutellar incision, beyond which 

 it is curved outwardly, and finely margined. Scutellum very small. 



Elytra elongate, their sides almost parallel with the suture, though 

 slightly incurved in front of the middle ; the apices rather acutely 

 rounded, almost divergent, and covering the abdomen. Legs moderately 

 long ; femora sublinear ; tibia straight, of about equal thickness through- 

 out, and armed with two small spines at the apex ; tarsi normal, appar- 

 ently, but nearly all more or less broken. 



The insect for which I make the above name is allied to the preced- 

 ing genera ; its peculiar enormously-developed terminal joint of the 

 maxillary palpi will at once lead to its recognition. 



743. B. rarus, n.s. Head rather closely but finely punctured, 

 with an impressed line on the vertex, which is rendered obvious by an 

 elongate fuscous mark, the rest of the surface being of a pale testaceous 

 colour ; eyes metallic, pale castaneous. Prothorax a little uneven, 

 rather convex transversely, finely punctate, and of the same colour as the 

 head, its dorsal line being infuscate. Elytra with obliquely rounded 

 humeral angles ; each elytron bears three broad, pale-fuscous, discoidal 

 streaks, the intervals being almost concave ; they are closely and indis- 

 tinctly rugosely-punctate. The body is sparingly clothed with fine pallid 

 hairs, but the pubescence is almost entirely confined to the elytra. 



Length, 5^ lines. 



I only found one example of this species some years ago, at Auck- 

 land ; it is evidently the male, and, unfortunately, very much mutilated. 



Techmessa. 



Bates ; Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., February, 1874. 



Mentum transversely quadrangular. Last joint of maxillary/^/ 

 cultriform, acute at apex. Mandibles bifid at apex ; labrum short, 

 slightly sinuously truncated in front. Head short ; epistoma broadly 

 and squarely truncated in front. Eyes large, slightly transverse, entire, 

 more (concolor) or less (telephoroides) strongly prominent. Antennce 

 inserted on slight prominences in front of and quite distinct from the 



