I hi LLETIN 111 mi \i 01 I OlfPARATH E EOdLOGl , 



I Bl PTOPB BPINIPE8 Pocock. 



Aim. mag oa1 bi»1 , 1891, iw <>, 8, p, if>»*>. 1 Kraepelin, Arkiv tool., 1916, 



10, no. 2, p 2 



j topi attoatu Pocook, Ibid., p I 



1m m.iiii> New South Wales: Sydney, 1 Blue Mts., Leura, 

 Wentworth Falls (W. M. Wheeler); Queensland: BlackaU Range, 

 Herberton, Cedar Creek, Atherton. 1 New Zealand. 1 Solomons: 



V: \\ M. Mann). Fijis: Lakeba Lau (W. M. Mann). 



3. CRTPTOP8 meualopori/s Haa.se. 

 AbhandL Mus. Dresden, 1887, 6, p. 80. 1 

 Locality. — New Zealand: Auckland Island. 1 



4. Cryptops lamprethus, sp. nov. 



Type — M. C. Z. 1,925. Paratype — M. C. Z. 2,034. New 

 Zealand: Plummerton, Taumarunni, August, 1914 (W. M. Wheeler). 



Color ferruginous. 



( 'ephalic plate without sulci, overlapped by the first dorsal plate. 

 First tergite without sulci. Paired sulci complete first on eighth 

 dorsal plate. Prosternum presenting a straight chitinous anterior 

 edge which is not at all or but vaguely and very slightly angulate at 

 middle, without hairs. Sternites each with a cruciform impression 

 of which the longitudinal furrow is wider and deeper and the trans- 

 verse one curved with concavity cephalad; last three or four plates 

 lacking this impression. Last ventral plate without sulci, narrowed 

 caudad, caudal margin straight or slightly incurved. Spiracles large, 

 longitudinally elliptic. Coxopleurae short, caudally subtruncate, pores 

 large and small, numerous, in numerous rows, not reaching caudal 

 margin. Anal legs missing. Penult legs clothed ventrally with dense, 

 very fine hairs in striking contrast with the much longer and coarser 

 hairs and setae laterally and above. 



Length, 28 mm. 



The paratype does not show the peculiarity in hair of the penult 

 legs. The anal legs have six teeth on the metatarsal and five on the 

 first tarsal. Femur and tibia densely clothed beneath with spines- 

 cent setae. 



