new Species of Histeride. BOT 
Hab. Japan. I found this species in Cossus-burrows at 
Kiga, Konosé, Nara, and in 8. Yezo. 
Acritus shogunus, sp. n. 
Ovalis, convexus, nigro-piceus, nitidus ; antennis pedibusque brun- 
neis ; pronoto linea basali aciculato-punctato in medio tenuiter 
arcuata; elytris sparse punctatis, dorso aciculato-rugosulis ; pro- 
sterno bistriato, utrinque truncato. 
IDPS cauil 
Oval, convex, nearly black, shining, anteane and legs pale 
brown ; the head feebly punctured; the thorax evenly and 
clearly, not closely, punctured, antiscutellar stria very feebly 
arched in the middle, and following the margin to the sides ; 
stria punctate, punctures aciculate, posteriorly within the stria 
the surface is strigose ; the elytral punctuation somewhat finer 
than that of the thorax, with a longitudinal strigosity between 
the pots; the pygidium impunctate, minutely and trans- 
versely strigose; the prosternum, outline similar to that figured 
for A. acupictus, Mars. (Mon. 1856, fig. 17), with a few scat- 
tered punctures, and surface microscopically strigose; the meso- 
sternum, marginal stria interrupted anteriorly, suture feebly 
visible and with the metasternum and first abdominal seg- 
ment clearly but sparsely punctate. 
Hab, Japan. I obtained a single example at Sapporo. 
Acritus tasmanie, sp. n. 
Ovalis, convexus, brunneus, nitidus; supra punctulatus ; prosterno 
bistriato, striis antice et postice divaricatis. 
is imal. 
Oval, convex, brown, shining; the head very finely and 
sparsely punctulate; the thorax, stria complete, punctures 
rather sparse, small anteriorly, gradually becoming larger 
toward the base, at the edge before the scutellum is a row of 
punctures, but there is no definite antiscutellar line like that 
figured for A. acarotdes and others by Marseul (Mon. 1856) ; 
the elytra are sculptured similarly to the thorax, except at 
the apical margins, which are, like the pygidium, almost 
smooth; the prosternum rather long, bistriate, striee rather 
widely divergent before and behind, feebly and very sparsely 
punctured ; the mesosternum, suture almost invisible, mar- 
ginal stria fine and a little interrupted anteriorly, like the 
metasternum it is sparsely punctulate. 
Hab. Tasmania (J. J. Walker, 1891). 
Ann. & Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 6. Vol. ix. 
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