OF NEW ZEALAND. 84! 



Length, 3! lines ; breadth, i J. 



I am indebted to Mr. Cheeseman for my specimens, which he 

 brought from the Wangapeka Valley. 



Group ULOMID^E . 



Ulomotypus. 



Nov. gen. 



Body elongate-oblong, transversely convex. Head moderate 

 Suture of epistome truncate in the middle, oblique laterally, 

 deeply triangularly emarginated in front. Labrum prominent, 

 entire, ciliated. Eyes transversal. Antenna n -articulate, robust, 

 rather short, gradually, but not greatly, incrassated ; first 

 joint longest, third a little larger than the contiguous ones, joints 

 7-10 transverse, sub-obconical, eleventh rounded. Maxillary palpi 

 short, their terminal joint securiform. Prothorax quadrate, mar- 

 ginated, apex sinuated, base bi-sinuated. Scutellum transverse. 

 Elytra oblong, slightly broader than thorax, marginated. Legs 

 moderate ; femora robust, grooved underneath ; front tibia elon- 

 gate-triangular, armed with two robust- procesees, the outer edge 

 sub-crenate ; the two hind pairs angularly produced outwardly at the 

 extremity, cavernose, bi-spinose inwardly, the posterior arcuated, 

 with a conspicuous tooth near the base on the inner edge ; tarsi 

 very short, cylindric, almost nude, the four basal joints of the 

 anterior conjointly as long as the apical one, penultimate entire ; 

 first joint of the posterior obconical, not elongated, second and third 

 transverse; claws simple. Prosternal process arched; that of the 

 mesosternum depressed in front, triangular, concave ; abdominal 

 process triangular, with raised edges. Trochanters of the inter- 

 mediate legs quite as distinct as the posterior, ciliated. Metastemum 

 moderately elongate, its episterna narrow, parallel. 



1496. U. IsevigatUS, n.s. Nude, shining, pitchy-black, tarsi and 

 antennae dark-red, labrum and palpi ferruginous, sub-cylindical. 



Head uneven, with two large obtuse inter-ocular elevations 

 separated by a longitudinal groove, and a sinuous transversal im- 

 pression behind ; its front part finely punctured, more closely near 

 the eyes, their orbits densely rugose-punctate ; occiput quite 

 smooth. Prothorax quadrangular, front and basal margins fine 

 but distinct, the lateral thickened behind ; apex widely and some- 

 what sinuously incurved, base sinuated beyond the middle ; posterior 

 angles rectangular, the anterior nearly so ; its surface very finely 

 and distantly punctured, with two shallow discoidal foveae. Scutellum 

 smooth, the anterior space densely rugulose. Elytra parallel, their 

 rims entire, shoulders obtusely rectangular ; each has a very long 

 scutellar and eight punctured striae, not, however, continued to the 

 extremity, interstices nearly plane, finely and remotely punctated. 

 Front tibia with fulvous ciliae at their internal apex, the outer edge 

 finely crenate, their front face punctate; middle and hind pairs 

 coarsely sculptured. Underside more or less reticulate-punctate. 

 7 FT. iv. 



