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Fig. 3. Inferior ventral bristle. Y- 90 diam. 



Fig. 4. Developing bristle of the same form. X 210 diam. 



Fig. 5. Dorsal bristle of Mahngrejiia IVliiteavesii. X 700 diam. 



Fig. 6. Superior ventral bristle. X 700 diam. 



Fig. 7. Inferior ventral bristle in chloride of calcium. X 700 diam. 



Fig. 8. One of the longer dorsal bristles of Fupolynoe occidentalis. X 350 



diam. 

 Fig. 9. One of the shorter dorsal bristles. X 350 diam. 

 Fig. 10. Superior ventral bristle of the same species. X 350 diam. 

 Fig. 11. Tip of another example. X 700 diam. 

 Fig. 12. Tip of one of the next series. X 350 diam. 

 Fig. 13. Tip of one of the inferior ventral bristles. X 350 diam. 

 Fig. 14. Dorsal bristle of Polyno'e gaspeensis. X 350 diam. 

 Fig. 15. Tip of another, showing the blunt termination. X 350 diam. 



Plate X. 



Fig. 1. Dorsal bristle of Fupolynoe anticostiensis. X 210 diam. 



Fig. 2. One of the shorter forms. X 210 diam. 



Fig. 3. Superior ventral bristle. X 210 diam. 



Fig. 4. Inferior ventral bristle. X 210 diam. 



Fig. 5. Dorsal bristle of Nemidia (?) canadensis. X 350 diam. 



Fig. 6. Superior ventral bristle. X 350 diam. 



Fig. 7. Tip of inferior ventral bristle, x 350 diam. 



Fig. 8. One of the same seen from behind. X 350 diam. 



Fig. 9. Dorsal bristle of Nemidia (?) Lawrencii. X 350 diam. 



Fig. 10. Superior ventral bristle. X 350 diam. 



Fig. 11. One of the lower ventral bristles. X 350 diam. 



Fig. 12. \^entral bristle of Polyno'e gaspeensis. X 350 diam. 



Fig. 13. Tip of another, with slightly different characters. X 350 diam. 



Fig. 14. Ventral bristle of Leanira Yhleni (?). X 350 diam. 



XXXV. — On the Geodephagous Coleoptera of New Zealand. 

 By H. W. Bates, F.L.S. 



[Concluded from p. 246.] 



Family Carabidse. 



Subfamily Anisodacttlin^. 



Teiplosaeus, nov. gen. 



Corpus breviter oblongum, subdepressum. Caput pone octilos haud 

 angustatum. Mandihulce edentatae, basi latse, apice angustatae et 

 curvatae. Labrnm medio leviter emarginatum, angulis rotundatis. 

 Mentum medio dente forti, acuto ; lobis extus valde rotundatis, 

 apice intus acutis ; epilobiis haud conspicuis. Ligula oblonga, 

 apice libera, recte truncata ; paraglossis apice aeque truucatis, 

 longitudine et latitudine ligulae sequalibus. Thorax transversim 

 quadratus. Elytra a^ice ohUxsQ rot\\nAdi.idi,'p&vlosimxdA?k-, striola 



