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NOTE ON STERNOC(ELIS, AND ON ONE NEW SPECIES. 

 BT G. LEWIS, F.L.S. 



On examining the claws of Sternocoelis mounted in Canada balsam 

 I find that it was an error of mine to have stated that they are not 

 split {cf, Ent. Mo. Mag., 1891, p. 161). Pressed apart in the balsam 

 two claws are shown, but when examined as an opaque object, even 

 under a high power, the claws appear to be united. The remarks on 

 the geographical distribution of the species of Sternocoelis I made in 

 this Magazine in June, 1891, have been singularly confirmed by my 

 captures this spring, during two and a half months' tour in Tunisia 

 and Algeria. I failed to find any of the species far from any of 

 the centres recorded before as their localities, but I found the follow- 

 ing species, and it will be of interest to those who are now working 

 out the Algerian fauna if the places of capture are indicated, viz. : — 



Sternoccelis punctulatus, Lucas, Teniet el Had and in tlie Cedar Forest of Blida. 

 S. Cancer, Lew., Haraman Meskoufcin, Blida, and in the Bois de Bologne near 



Algiers. 

 S. Sedilotti, Lew., Constantino. 

 S. Walkeri, Lew., Forest at Blida and at Algiers. 

 S.fulvus, Lew., Blida, near the flour mill. 

 S. Bonnairei, Sch., Bone, in the cattle market close to the town, and on Edough ; 



also at Constantine and Souk-Ahas. 

 S. comosellus, Fairra., has been taken at Constantine by Mons. Eug. Simon. 



Sternoccelis viaticus, sp. n. 

 Breviter ovatus, hrunneo-ferrugineus, hirsutus ; capite leviter jounctato ; 

 prosterno carinis sinuatis antice et postice haud conjunctis. 



Long., \\ — 2 mm. 



Shortly oval, brownish, little convex, with rather long fulvous hairs sparingly 

 set in rows ; the head flattish above, surface obscurely rugose with large shallow 

 punctures, lateral carinse strong and well marked ; the thorax transverse, gradually 

 widening out to the base from the anterior angle, anterior angles rugosely, not 

 deeply, punctured, disc smooth, basal fovea shallow, triangular, and placed well 

 within the angle ; the elytra almost smooth, humeral and first striee complete, the 

 others obsolete, but their position is indicated by rows of fulvous hair ; the pro- 

 pygidium and pygidium have large shallow punctures not closely set ; the tibice are 

 dilated like those of the well known S. punctulatus, Lucas. The prosternum be- 

 tween the carinse is marked with shallow punctures similar to those on the head, the 

 carinae widen out at the base and terminate at the angle, anteriorly the carinse are 

 widely sinuous before the coxae, and end at the suture behind the lobe without 

 approaching each other ; the meso- and metasterna are moderately excavated and 

 nearly smooth. 



I found a single example of this species at Hamman Meskoutin 



