new Species of Histerida). 



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the base of the metasternum, in the centre of which it is 

 angulate, the suture of the mesostemum is invisible ; the legs, 

 anterior tibiae dilated, external edge nearly semicircular, 

 intermediate and posterior tibia? externally triangularly dilated, 

 tarsi short with two claws. 



Hab. Paraguay (Dr. J. Bohh). Two examples found on 

 the 5th October, 1892, while it was running over a mound 

 made by termites. 



SlTALlA, gen. nov. 



Corpus oblougum, subparallelum, convexum, bruuneum ; caput inter 

 ociilos planum, antennis funieulo brevi seusira incrassato, clava 

 ovali baud compressa ; pronotum supra convexum ; elytris cari- 

 natis (fig. 3 cZ); propygidiuin postice acuminatum ; pygidium deelive; 

 prosternum basi incisum, bistriatum ; mesosternum iu medio 

 minute productum ; tibia) lata?, fossa tarsali parum lata, subrecta, 

 leviter exarata. 



While establishing the above genus for the reception of 

 Paratropus Severing Lew. (Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xxxvi. 

 p. 142, 1892), I have availed myself of M. G. Severin's kind 



FLr. 3. 



Sitalia Severini, Lew. 



loan of the blocks to reproduce the woodcuts made of the 

 species from his original drawings. Only one example of 

 this curious insect is known and no dissections have been 

 made of it. 



Homalopygus remex, sp. n. (PI. X. fig. 10.) 



Oblongus, subdepressus, piceus, nitidus ; fronte abrupta, tenuissime 

 punctulata ; pronoto stria marginali basi abbreviata, laterali 

 obliqua ; elytris striis 1 integra, 2-4 insequaliter abbreviatis, 

 suturali geminata ; pygidio punctulato ; prosterno bistriato ; 

 mesosterno antice biemarginato, stria marginali integra ; tibiis 

 valde dilatatis. 



L. 2i mill. 



