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the base and easily counted as 21 or 22. Prosternum without strife ; mcsosternum 

 very slightly omarginate in front, marginal strife clearly defined and continuing down 

 the side of the metasternum. All the sternal plates are impunctate. 



3. HiSTER YESTITUS, n. Sp. 



Brevlter ovalis, niger nitidus ; pedibus piceis ; fronte stria integra ; 

 elytris striis 1 — 4 integris, 5 — 6 apicalibus ; frosterno mesosternoque dense 

 vestitis ; metasterno Icevi. Long., 3 — Zx mm. 



Oval, black, shining, antennsE and legs picoous ; frontal stria transverse, mode- 

 rately impressed, very slightly sinuous ; head and thorax very finely and sparsely 

 punctulate ; thorax with marginal stria very fine, terminating behind the eye, lateral 

 stria oblique, rather strong, turning towards the outer margin as it approaches the 

 base, it continues behind the neck, where it is feeble and a little crenulate, and at 

 the eyes it is feebly sinuous ; elytra, strise 1 — 4 complete, 5th and sutural apical, the 

 sutural reaching the middle of the dorsal region, the other is shorter. The inter- 

 stices of the Ist and 2nd strife and the 3rd and 4th striae widen out a little at the 

 base. The propygidium and pygidium are evenly but a little sparsely punctured. 

 The prosternum and mcsosternum are clothed with a very singular growth, which, 

 under the microscope, appears to be composed of cinereous hairs. The growth 

 naturally entirely obscures the sculpture of these parts, but in an abraded specimen 

 the prosternum and mcsosternum seem to be roughly punctured or granulate. The 

 metasternum is smooth and impunctate, and the contrast in the appearance of these 

 surfaces is very remarkable. The anterior tibiae are rather dilated near the tarsi, 

 and bear, when not abraded, a cluster of small denticulations, the other tibise are 

 multispinous. 



The superficies of this species resembles myrmidon, Mars. I have 

 seen eight specimens of it. 



4.— Paroma-lus Goliath, n. sp. 



This species belongs to that section of the genus in which the 

 males have an abdominal tubercle. 



Ovalis, niger, nitidus, punctulatns ; capite stria integra ; pronoto ante 

 scutellum foveolato ; elytris striis ohsoletis ; pygidio suhopaco tenuissime punc- 

 tulato ; prosterno bistriato ; mesosterno immarginato, stria transversa 

 hiangulata. Long.. 4f — 5^ mm. 



Oval, black, and shining, above evenly and rather thickly punctulate ; forehead 

 flatti.sh, with marginal stria well marked and complete ; thorax with conspicuous 

 scutcllar fovea and outer stria complete ; elytra with dorsal striae obsolete, apex 

 margined by an epipleural stria being continued round it to the suture ; propygidium 

 and pygidium somewhat opaque, with almost imperceptible punctulations. The 

 anterior lobe of the prosternum is punctate, the keel bistriate, strire joining behind 

 only and in front terminating abruptly at the suture. Mcsosternum (not distinct 

 from the metasternum) with a shallow, biangulate, transverse stria divided into 

 three nearly equal parts ; S metasternum with a large three-sided depression at its 

 base, the first segment of the abdomen is also depressed anteriorly, and has a well- 

 defined ridge-like basal tubercle. Anterior tibia? 4-dentate, intermediate spinose. 



