Coleoptera of Nero Zealand. 275 



B. eques ; but tlie thorax is smaller and still more cordate 

 (similar to that of the Lopha section). The frontal fuiTows 

 are deep, and reach to the level of the hind margin of the eyes. 

 The fovea of the hind angles of the thorax has no carina 

 exterior to it. The anterior tarsi of the male have only the 

 basal joint dilated, parallelogrammical, as in Peryplms eques. 



Bemhidium rotundicolle^ n. sp. 



B. nilotlco similis, cuiireo-aeneum, nitidum ; antennis basi pedibus- 

 que piceo-nifis ; clytris utrinque versus apicem, ipsoque apice 

 flavo-testaceis ; thorace fortitcr rotimdato, basi angusta, margini- 

 bus angustis, postice nullomodo explanatis, augulis posticis vix 

 conspicuis, fovea parva juxta angulum laevi ; elytris punctato- 

 striatig, extus et apice minus impressis, interstitiispaulo couvexis, 

 tertio bipunctato. Long. 1—2 lin. c? • 



cJ . Tarsi antici articulis duobus dilatatis, apice obliquis et fortiter 

 intus productis. 



Differs from the section to which B. niloticum belongs by 

 the very narrow margins to the thorax, not explanated behind, 

 and with obtuse hind angles ; the sides of the thorax are very 

 strongly rounded, but the base is much narrower than the 

 apex ; the apical angles are not at all conspicuous. 



Lake Coleridge ; under stones in a dry lagoon ( C. M. Wake- 

 field^ Esq.). 



Subfamily AcTENoyrcHiif^. , 



Actenonyx hemhidio'ides^ White, /. c. p. 2 (1846). 



8phaU(UC peryphindes, Bates, Ent. Monthly Mag. h-. p. 56 (1867). 



Christchurch [B. W. Fereday, Esq.). 



White's description omits all the essential characters of 

 this curious Carabid, and is so vague that there are no means 

 of identifying it without reference to the type. I have seen a 

 specimen so named in the Bi-itish Museum, which quite agrees 

 with Sphallax perypho'ides. The extraordinary form of the 

 ligula, and other characters,'necessitate the formation of a new 

 subfamily for the insect, which will range near the Oda- 

 canthince. 



Subfamily Scopodin^. 



Scopodes fossil latus. 



Dromius (\) fossulatiis, Blanch. Voy. Pole Sud, iv. p. 9, t. iii. f. 16. 

 Fcrihlepum elaphro'ides, Redtenb. Reise Novara, Col. p. 21, t. i. f. 9. 



Blanchard's description accords exceedingly well with a 

 species apparently common at Auckland, with the exception 



