new Species o/'HistevIdEe. 89 



which is horizontal and the posterior part has an oblique 

 outline when viewed sideways. In the Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. 

 p. 140 (1870) Horn states that the pygidiumof aquipunctatus is 

 " very convex.'^ Perhaps the sexes differ ; I have only seen 

 the male. The form of the pygidium somewhat resembles 

 that of Teretriosoma chahjbamm, Horn, a species not rare in 

 Texas. Near the posterior edge in the Saprimis are two 

 somewhat wide, shallow, transverse depressions in the male. 



Saprinus walkeri, Bickhardt, Ent. Bl. p. 186 (1910). 



No species has been described under this name, but the 

 name refers to a specimen that Walker had in 1871 (see Ann. 

 & Mag. Nat. Hist. xv. p. 468, 1885), but which has long since 

 perished. I am indebted to Mr. G. J. Arrow for the following 

 memorandum from the archives of the Natural History 

 Museum regarding the destruction of Mr. J. K. Lord's 

 collection, and I think that it is well to publish it : — 



" Dr. Keatinge, Director of the School of Medicine, Cairo, 

 wrote to me [G. J. Arrow] : — Dr. Innes (ex-Director) in- 

 forms me that when he was first appointed to this School, 

 more than 20 years ago, he found that, owing to neglect, 

 nothing remained of Lord^s collection except the labels, the 

 insects having all been eaten.'' 



The Becorder of the ' Zoological Record' of 1871 says that 

 ^' Walker gives a catalogue of 173 species taken by Mr. Lord, 

 followed by brief and insufficient English diagnoses of 2 

 new genera and 50 new species." The specimens now are 

 non-existent. The name of -S^. ivalkeri in the Berlin Catalogue 

 of 1910 therefore shows that a name in a catalogue does not 

 necessarily represent any known species. 



Hypocaccus asticus, sp. n. 



Ovalis, convexus, aeneus vel rufo-piceus, nitidus, antennis pedibus- 

 que rufis ; fronte strigosa ; pronoto dense punctato, disco postice 

 laevi ; elytris dimidia parte postica tenuiter punctulatis, stria 

 suturali Integra, antice areuatim juncta, dorsalibus 2-4 dimidiatis, 

 1 subiategra postice sinuata ; pygidio tenuissime punctulato ; 

 prosterno basi lato, striis postice abbreviatis ; mesosterno lasvi, 

 stria transversa nulla ; tibiis anticis 4-dentatis. 



L. 2 mill. 



This species is very similar to rufipes, Payk., but the out- 

 line of the body is broader and more convex, the elytral 

 punctuation is finer and less dense, also the points on the 

 pygidia ; the presternum is wide at the base, one-third 

 wider than that of rufipes , the strise are shortened at the 



