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sutural sti'i^e rather fine, there are no distinct impressions near 

 the shoulders. Hind body short above, much deflexed, the 

 basal segment longer in the middle than at the sides, scantily 

 pubescent. Legs rather long and slender, tibite straight. 



Male. — AntenncB 10-articulate; first joint longer and stouter 

 than the second ; third nearly as long as the preceding one, 

 narrowed towards its base ; fourth short and bead-like ; fifth 

 subquadrate ; sixth strongly transvei'se, nearly twice the 

 breadth of the fifth, its point of articulation near the outside ; 

 seventh shorter than sixth, nearly as broad, articulated near 

 the middle; eighth still shorter, nearly as broad as the seventh, 

 articulated at the middle, rather closely applied to the following 

 one ; ninth very large, its apex oblique, so that the outer side 

 is a good deal longer than the inner ; tenth conical, not acu- 

 minate, narrower than the ninth, so that the inner side is not 

 in line with that of the preceding. 



Underside. Metasternum broadly impressed. Front trochan- 

 ters (or coxje) with slender spines. Basal segmant of the 

 abdomen broadly impressed, with an elevation near each hind 

 coxa; last segment impressed. 



A moderately elongate species, the elytra and hind body, 

 conjointly, form an oval figure. Its neai'est allies are B. syl- 

 vicola and B. fraudulenta, but the last six antennal joints 

 differ in form. 



cJ . Length f , breadth nearly § line. 



Mount Pirongia. One male, found in December 1892. 



Bryaxis setifer^ sp. n. 



Shining, red, legs and antennae paler, tarsi fulvous, terminal 

 joint of maxillary palpi fuscous; body nearly nude, having 

 only a few, very long, erect, slender setai. 



Head large, rather broader than the thorax ; uneven above, 

 the forehead rather deeply and broadly impressed, the two 

 large fovea3 on the vertex placed near the QyQi^, when looked 

 at sideways they appear to unite with the frontal depression. 

 Eyes convex. Thorax small, with a fovea-like compression 

 at each side near the base. Elytra lai-ge, suboblong, curvedly 

 narrowed near the base, with fine sutural strite. Ilind body 

 short and deflexed. Legs slender ; tibice nearly straight, a 

 little expanded towards the extremity. 



Male. — Antennm ten-jointed ; second joint nearly the lcn"-th 

 of the first ; third short, hardly longer than broad ; fourth bead- 

 like, of nearly the same size as the preceding one ; fifth 

 broader than long, a little larger than fourth, moniliform ; 

 sixth broader than fifth, but not as broad as the seventh ; 



