324 Mr, Charles J. Gahan on new 



blance, and from which it differs by distinct structural 

 characters. The genus seems to have no near affinities, 

 but it will be best placed, I think, in Lacordaire's Section 

 A, of the group Niplionime. The anterior coxal cavities 

 are separated from the front border of the prosternum 

 by a longer interval than is the rule in this group. 



Soridus hicqncntus, Chev, 



Xi/lorrliiza hiapicnta, Chev., Eev. et Mag. de ZooL, 

 1857, p. 82. 



Chevrolat has described the prothorax as at least 

 twice as long as broad, but in this he erred, for I find, 

 on measurement, that it is not quite half as long again 

 as the width at the base. 



Stathmodeba, n. g. 

 Head concave between the antennal tubercles ; the latter slightly 

 prominent, with their anterior apical border entire ; front higher 

 than broad, with its lateral borders almost parallel. Antenmc 

 a little longer than the body, sparsely setose underneath ; with the 

 scape rather stout, this and joints 3 and 4 subequal, the rest 

 gradually decreasing in length. Prothorax slightly rounded at the 

 sides ; unarmed ; marked above with deeply impressed longitudinal 

 lines. Elytra strongly and serially punctured ; retracted posteriorly ; 

 with the apices narrowly truncate, and each armed at the outer 

 angle with a very strong spine. Femora sub-clavate ; the posterior 

 not surpassing the fourth abdominal segment ; intermediate tibiaa 

 emarginate ; claws of the tarsi divergent ; the two basal joints of 

 all the tarsi marked with a feeble longitudinal dorsal groove, and 

 armed above at their distal extremity with some slender spines. 

 Intermediate cotyloid cavities closed on the outside. Sternal pro- 

 cesses simple. 



From the characters of the two small species com- 

 prised in this genus, the latter must, I think, be placed 

 in the group Ptericoptiiue. 



By the twelve longitudinal deeply impressed lines on 

 the pronotum, and the slender sjiines at the dorsal 

 extremity of the two basal joints of the tarsi, the two 

 species now described may be easily identified. 



StatJimodera lincata, n. s. (PI. IX., fig. 8). 

 Fuscus ; capite, vitta utrinque prothoracis et maculis nonnullis 

 elytrorum fulvo-pubcscentibus ; prothorace pone apicem et ante 



