Brown.—On the Coleoptera of New Zealand, 281 
This species is very closely allied to S. prisca, but is readily distin- 
guished therefrom, by its much shorter elytra and metasternum ; its 
antenne are also more slender, and their fifth joint is notably thinner ; the 
hind body is broader towards the extremity; and the remarkably con- 
spicuous male characters of S. prisca are in S. misella entirely wanting. 
Sagola parva, n. sp. Corpore antice fortiter angustato. Obscure rufa, 
elytris sanguineis ; antennis sat gracilibus, articulis penultimis vix trans- 
versis ; prothorace elongato, latitudine fere longiore; elytris abbreviatis, 
abdomine multo brevioribus, prothorace vix longioribus. Long. corp. 
24 mm. 
Very closely allied to S. misella, but with the head and thorax narrower, 
and the elytra a little shorter than in that species; the antenn also are 
rather less developed than in S. misella, being both a little shorter and more_ 
slender. = 
Euplectus convexus, n. sp. Rufescens, pube brevi depressi dense ves- 
titus ; fronte profunde bisulcata ; prothorace angustulo, basin versus 
impressionibus tribus magnis; elytris stria suturali basi profunde impress ; 
impressioneque intra-humerali bene distincta ; antennis articulo ultimo 
acuminato. Long. corp. 2; mm. 
Mas., pedibus omnibus incrassatis, tibiis posterioribus intus angulatis. 
Antenne, shorter than head and thorax, second joint not so long as 
first; joints third to ninth bead-like, differing little from one another, 
except that the ninth is a little broader than the others ; tenth joint, short, 
rather strongly transverse, about twice as broad as the ninth; eleventh 
joint, large, broader than the tenth. Head, rather long and narrow, very 
deeply impressed between the frontal tubercles; from each side of the 
impression proceeds backwards a deep furrow, which terminates between 
the eyes as a fovea-like expansion. Thorax much narrower than the elytra, 
about as long as broad, much narrowed behind, with a very large impression 
behind the middle, which is connected on each side with a deep large fovea 
near the hind angles. Elytra distinctly longer than the thorax, with the 
sutural stria deeply impressed at the base, and with a rather large intra- 
humeral impression. 
Euplectus opacus, n. sp. Rufescens, opacus, pube brevissima densius 
vestitus ; antennew breves ; capite parvo, transversim impresso ; prothorace 
basin versus impresso, disco canaliculato ; elytris strié suturali, alteraque 
subtili, discoidali, abbreviati, basi profunde impressis. Long. corp. 
1k mm, v1 
