164 Capt. T. Broun on new 



form and not sharply defined ; near each hind angle there is 

 a shallow impression, the middle of the base is scored with 

 feeble longitudinal strige, and the fovete are more or less 

 minutely punctured ; sometimes, however, they are smooth. 

 Scutellwn estriate. Elytra ovate-oblong, shoulders not denti- 

 form ; they are narrowed but hardly sinuate behind ; their 

 strige are deep, narrow, and impunctate ; the interstices plane, 

 rather broad, without punctiform impressions. Legs mode- 

 rately slender, posterior femora simple. 



Male. — Front tarsi with sponge-like soles and lateral setiB, 

 the basal three joints dilated ; first subtriangular, second and 

 third cordiform. One setigerous puncture on each side of the 

 last ventral segment ; two setse on each side of the thorax ; 

 the middle and hind tarsi more or less grooved above. 



This is very different from Haptoderus maorinics, Bates, in 

 many respects. P. oscillator, Sharp, has sulciform thoracic 

 foveas, and the third elytral interstices bear two or three large 

 punctures. 



(J. Length 4:|-4^, breadth 1^ lines. 



Ohaupo, Waikato, three examples ; Hunua Range, five. 



I have with pleasure named this species in honour of 

 Dr. David Sharp. A typical specimen has beeri sent to the 

 British Museum. 



Group Bembidiidae. 

 Anillus phyllohius, sp. n. 



Subdepressed, slightly nitid, fulvescent ; legs pale yellow ; 

 with numerous erect, slender, short setse. 



Head comparatively large, narrower than the thorax, dis- 

 tinctly biimpressed on the middle, slightly wrinkled there, 

 with two elongate setse on each side. Mandibles prominent. 

 Thorax nearly as long as it is broad, cordiform, widest before 

 the middle, gradually narrowed towards the base, posterior 

 angles quite obtuse ; sides finely margined, with a long seta 

 before the middle and another in front of the hind angle ; 

 base medially incurved, transversely depressed, without well- 

 marked fossffi ; there is an abbreviated central stria. Scu- 

 tellum wanting. Elytra oblong, shoulders rounded, apices 

 individually obliquely rounded, with a short broad sutural 

 gap ; their sides scarcely curvate, the lateral margins more 

 explanate near the shoulders than they are elsewhere ; disk 

 flat, apparently covered with excessively minute brassy scales ; 

 there are four or five series of very shallow indistinct punc- 

 tures on each ; these become irregular behind ; there are no 



