1430 COLEOPTEBA 



Male. Underside red, finely pubescent. Metasternum evenly 

 convex. Head with a fovea-like impression behind. Abdomen with 

 the first segment covered with golden pubescence, but concealed by 

 the femora ; second largest ; fourth strongly incurved behind, its 

 sides about twice the length of the middle, with a minute indis- 

 tinct elevation behind ; fifth extremely short and strongly curved ; 

 sixth elongate, narrow, and attenuate, with a small apical ap- 

 pendage. 



Fern. Abdomen : Fourth segment truncate behind, fifth nearly 

 so, sixth short. 



E. acuminatus is the only species at all similar to this. It 

 differs in being smaller, and by the interocular foveae not being pro- 

 longed forwards. The antennal tubercles are widely distant in both 

 species. They will probably be associated in a distinct genus. 



Length, f ; breadth, nearly \ line. 



Maketu, Hunua Eange. The male was found at Clevedon by 

 Mr. Munro after I had described the female ; the description there- 

 fore has been rewritten. 



2483. E. clayiger, n.s. Elongate, subparallel, subdepressed, 

 shining, clothed with fine yellow hairs ; chestnut-red, legs and 

 antennae fulvescent. 



Head broad behind, seemingly impunctate ; there are two small 

 foveae in line with the front of the eyes, and a short linear impres- 

 sion on the back part of the vertex. Thorax rather longer than 

 broad, widest near the middle, with a depression near the base from 

 side to side. Elytra oblong, sutural striae broad and deep at the 

 base, intrahumeral impressions elongate. Hind-body as broad as 

 the elytra, the three basal segments marginated, the first and second 

 about equal. 



Antenna about the length of the head and thorax ; second joint 

 nearly as long as the first, longer than broad, with rounded sides ; 

 3-9 small ; tenth transverse, about twice the size of the ninth ; 

 eleventh large, ovate. 



Abdomen with six decreasing segments, sixth subconical. This 

 is another peculiar species; it is not like any other, and may be 

 known by the unusually large terminal joints of the antennae, which 

 form a sort of club. The antennal tubercles are not large, but they 

 are nearly contiguous. It will, no doubt, be separated generically 

 from Euplectus when more specimens can be obtained. 



Length, \ ; breadth, -| line. 



Maketu, Hunua Eange. One example. 



OBS. Euplectus allocephalus (No. 1890). I have a variety from 

 Mr. Munro, in which the hind angles of the head are prominent; 

 behind each tubercle there is a large, deep, fovea-like depression ; 

 there is a transverse impression near the middle, so that the back 

 part and the interantennal portion appear elevated. The front 

 trochanters are spiniform. The fourth ventral segment is raised at 

 the apex, the fifth is depressed and very short in the middle. The 

 specimen, received lately, is, no doubt, a male. 



