neio Species o/'Histeridse. 175 



under the name of H. parallela, Sturm (see ( Abhandlungen 

 der naturhistorischen Gresellschaft ' (Nurnberg), p. 93, Taf. B. 

 fig. 2). I suppose Koch's species, for it is his and not 

 Sturm's, is the same as H. colombiana, Mars. 1853 ; but it 

 is impossible to say for certain without seeing the type. 

 Koch's name does not appear in the Munich Catalogue, nor 

 is it noticed in any volume of the ' Zoological Record.' 



Anaglymma, Lewis, 1894. 



The discovery of a larger species of this genus from the 

 Congo River will substantiate the genus as a valid one, as 

 the African species possesses, even to minute details of sculp- 

 ture, all the characters noticed in those from India and the 

 Eastern Archipelago. 



Anaglymma afra, sp. n. (Fig. 1.) 



Breviter ovalis, depressa, nigra, nitida ; antennis pedibusque diluti- 

 oribus ; pronoto antice strigoso-punctato ; elytris striis l a -4 m 

 integris, 5 a apicali, suturali utrinque abbreviata. 



L. 3 mill. 



Shortly oval, depressed, black and shining, antennas and 

 legs piceous ; the head concave anteriorly, densely punctured ; 

 the thorax densely and strigosely punc- 

 tate at and behind the anterior angles, ^ ^ ' 



sparsely punctate at and near the poste- 

 rior angles, disk before the scutellum 

 transversely smooth, with a line of irre- 

 gular punctures along the posterior edge, 

 marginal stria complete and minutely 

 crenulate and close to the edge behind 

 the neck ; the scutellum smooth and trian- 

 gular ; the elytra, strias, subhumeral 

 strong and complete, 1-4 complete and 

 well-marked at the bases, 2-4 pnnctiform at the apices, 

 5 apical, short, punctiform, and split into two, sutural 

 discal, similarly double, but punctiform throughout, the 

 fourth stria is curved near the base ; the propygidium and 

 pygidium are distinctly but not very closely punctured ; the 

 presternum smooth, lateral strias divergent from the coxse to 

 the anterior suture ; the mesosternum bisinuous anteriorly, 

 with a stria in form like the outline of a Moorish arch, which 

 is common to it and the metasternum. 



Hah. Matadi, Congo River. Collected and kindly sent to 

 me by Mr. J. A. Clark. 



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