832 COLEOPTERA 



moderately shining, rather densely covered with short greyish hairs, 

 convex. 



Head sub-trigonal ; antennal tubercles much flattened and indis- 

 tinct, the space between them a little elevated and rather coarsely 

 sculptured, and immediately behind it there is a somewhat triangular 

 depressed space ; vertex punctate and bi-foveolate. Prothorax scarcely 

 longer than broad, cordiform, very finely punctured, with a median 

 basal fovea and one on each side. Elytra broader than, and nearly 

 twice the length of, the thorax, minutely punctured, their sutural 

 striae well marked. Hind-body finely punctate, its two basal seg- 

 ments as broad as the elytra. Antenna moderate, n -articulate ; the 

 two basal joints about equal in length, first the stouter, joints 3-9 of 

 nearly the same length, third longest, ninth broadest and quite 

 transverse, tenth broader than long, twice the width of the eighth, 

 eleventh largest, sub-ovate, apparently appendiculate ; they bear 

 yellow hairs. Legs stout ; anterior tibia almost straight ; interme- 

 diate, along the outer edge, nearly straight to beyond the middle and 

 arcuated towards the extremity, their inner edge incurved beyond 

 the middle, and, just before the apex, furnished with a robust calcar ; 

 posterior flexuose. Maxillary palpi stout, not elongate, terminal 

 joint rather thick. 



It seems questionable whether No. 242 may not prove to be the 

 female : should this actually prove to be the case, the name, B. 

 nasuta, must be sunk as a synonym of B. calcarata. 



This species is distinguished from all the Pselaphidce known to 

 me by the armature of the middle tibiae. 



$ . Length, quite -f line ; breadth, quite %. 



I found two males of this curious little creature at Tuakau, 

 Waikato- 



Sagola (P. 134)- 



1480. S. terricola, n.s. Shining, head and thorax dark-red, 

 elytra and legs rufo-fulvous, hind-body and antennae red. 



Head with moderately-rounded hind angles, a deep groove between 

 the antennal tubercles not extending beyond the middle of the eyes, 

 a little expanded, but not foveate behind, and two foveae on its back 

 part ; tubercles distinctly punctured ; it is clothed with elongate, 

 pale-yellow hairs. Antenna normal, pilose. Prothorax cordiform, 

 and, like the head, minutely punctated, with a large depression 

 behind the middle, a much smaller one between it and each hind 

 angle, and a large one at each side ; its clothing like that of the 

 head. Elytra about one and a half times longer than thorax, and 

 much broader than it behind, finely punctured, each with a broad 

 sutural stria deepest in front, and a deep elongate basal impression 

 beyond ; they are sparingly clothed with long yellowish hairs. Hind- 

 body longer and broader than elytra, finely punctured, covered with 

 yellow hairs, the first dorsal segment covered with minute, depressed 

 brassy scales. Legs stout ; front femora with a deep round notch 

 near the base, the angles acute; tibiae arched externally, the pos- 

 terior less curved, but slightly bent at the extremity. Larger than 

 Nos. 246-249. 



