1400 COLEOPTERA 



The prosternum is moderately emarginated, and the coxae are 

 placed near its base, with a narrow process between them. The 

 metasternum is limited behind, at each side, by a bicnrvate suture. 

 Abdomen composed of four segments, the basal very large, second 

 and third of moderate length, the last seems to possess a small ter- 

 minal spiniform process. Palpi with thick penultimate joints, the 

 last acicular. Mandibles moderately large and curved. 



$ . Length, ; breadth, f line/ 



Mount Pirongia. Mr. A. T. Urquhart was kind enough to bring 

 some leaf-mould from the mountain, and out of this I picked my 

 two specimens. 



OBS. In referring this species temporarily to Tacky s I follow 

 the course adopted by Dr. Sharp when he described his Cillenum 

 subccecum, which, I think, is congeneric with my Anillus-pallidus. 

 No. 1810 is, I believe, an Anillus. I shall deal with the following 

 species in the same way ; in fact, we in New Zealand cannot be 

 expected to do better than entomologists near London. 



2442. T. (?) cavelli, n.s. Body slightly convex, somewhat de- 

 pressed medially ; shining, rufo-fuscous, mandibles pale-red, legs, 

 palpi, and antennae yellow. 



Head (including mandibles) about as long as the thorax, frontal 

 impressions subquadrate and sharply limited in front ; labruni ful- 

 vous, feebly ernarginate ; eyes small, quite lateral. Antenna stout, 

 extending backwards beyond the base of the thorax, basal joint not 

 quite as long as second and third taken together, joints 2, 3, and 4 

 of nearly equal length, thinner than the succeeding ones. Man- 

 dibles robust, elongate, curved at extremity. Thorax almost as long 

 as it is broad, widest near the front, narrowed towards the anterior 

 angles, which are distinct, not rounded, and but little depressed ; 

 behind the middle the sides are gradually, but considerably, con- 

 tracted, with a slight sinuation near the hind angles ; these, though 

 obtuse, are not rounded ; the margins are a little thickened there, 

 and are continued towards the middle of the base, where they become 

 indistinct ; the median groove distinct, finer near the apex, basal 

 fossae broad and shallow. Scutellum indistinct. Elytra large, 

 broader and more convex than the thorax, their sides well mar- 

 ginated and moderately curvate, obliquely narrowed behind, apices 

 not in the least truncate, shoulders rounded and narrowed yet 

 evidently wider than the base of the thorax ; at the base, on each, 

 but not reaching the suture, there is a transverse depression, and 

 one puncture ; the striae on the disc are very feebly impressed and 

 impunctate, there is a more obvious stria on each side, and a sub- 

 marginal series of punctures. Legs stout, femora not swollen; front 

 tibia deeply notched inwardly, the top of the emargination with 

 slender, strongly flexuous, spiniform appendages, the calcar at the 

 inner apex is stout, and there are three or four short spines on the 

 outside ; the joints of the tarsi (anterior) are subtriangular and 

 hispid ; the posterior tibiae are a little bent. 



The maxillary palpi are remarkably long and robust ; the basal 



