ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Juty. >o8 



New Coleoptera, with notes on some New Jersey 



Histeridae. 



BY CHARLES SCHAEFFER, Brooklyn, N. Y. 



Several years ago in Lakehurst, New Jersey, I took a single 

 specimen of a Hister which seemed to be undescribed, but as 

 the specific characters used in separating species in the entire 

 family are more or less subject to variation, I thought it inad- 

 visable to describe a new species from a unique. Lately, how- 

 ever, in going over some New Jersey material I noticed a num- 

 ber of specimens collected by my friends, William T. Davis, 

 in Lakehurst and Jamesburg, and Charles W. Leng, in James- 

 burg and Brookville, which convinced me that the species is en- 

 titled to a name and in order that the name sent to Prof. Smith 

 to be included in his forthcoming new list of New Jersey in- 

 sects be sanctioned by a description, the species is described 

 below. 



In a recently purchased small miscellaneous lot of insects 

 from the Santa Rita Mountains, Arizona, two species of Cole- 

 optera were found to be undescribed and the present opportu- 

 nity is taken to make these known. 



Hister davisi n. sp. 



Form and size of americanus. Outer thoracic stria absent, inner 

 entire and slightly sinuate near base; surface of thorax very sparsely 

 punctate near the striae, punctuation almost absent from the disk. 

 Elytra with four entire discal strise; the fourth slightly abbreviated at 

 base; fifth stria apical not quite reaching to the middle, sutural stria 

 entire and strongly arcuate at base, not connected with the fourth ; 

 one distinct subhumeral stria, which does not quite extend to base; 

 all the strise rather strongly impressed and finely punctate; surface 

 almost impunctate. Epipleura bistriate, the inner stria finer and 

 shorter than the outer, the latter rather coarsely punctate. Prosternum 

 slightly flattened behind, on each side a short basal stria, which does 

 not extend to the middle. Mesosternum truncate. Anterior tibiae 

 5-dentate, the two upper teeth small. Propygidium coarsely but 

 sparsely punctate; pygidium not as coarsely punctate as propygidium. 

 Length, 3.5 mm. 





New Jersey; Lakehurst (Davis, Schaeffer), Jamesburg 

 (Davis, Leng), Brookville (Leng). August and September. 





