288 Mr. G. Lewis on 



stria iutegra; pronoto lateribus basique punctato ; elytris striis 1-4 

 dorsalibus in medio postice abbreviatis, suturali basi abbreviate; 

 prosterno striis integris, subparallelis ; mesosterno marginato, 

 parce et grosse punctato. 

 L. 9 mill. 



Oval, convex, with a slight greenish brassy tinge ; the 

 head and epistoma transverse (like that of S.semip)unctatus, F.) , 

 frontal stria well-marked and complete, vertex punctured, 

 punctures particularly conspicuous near the eyes ; the thorax, 

 marginal stria complete, along the sides is a broad band of 

 rather coarse punctures, which terminate behind the eyes but 

 continue more narrowly along the base nearly to the scutellum, 

 there is a small antiscutellar puncture ; the elytra, dorsal striae 

 are rather oblique and punctured and in form otherwise closely 

 resemble those of S. splendens, Er., figured in Marseul's 

 monograph, fig. 22, but the second and third interstices are 

 smooth, the basal half of each elytron is rather coarsely and 

 closely punctured ; the propygidium is chiefly punctured at 

 the sides ; the pygidium has a fine median raised line and is 

 closely punctured, except at the apex which is nearly smooth ; 

 the presternum, keel is parallel and formed like that of S. semi- 

 punctatus, F., lateral strise are complete and feebly widen out 

 at the base ; the mesosternum is marginate and sparingly but 

 coarsely punctured j the metasternum has a band of points 

 along its base. 



The species belongs to the serm'punctahis-gvcmp, but the 

 punctuation of its mesosternum resembles that of S. optabilis, 

 Mars. Tn most of the large Saprini the mesosterna are 

 smooth. The type specimen of this species is the largest 

 Saprinus I have seen. 



Hab. Tai-yuen-fu, Shansi : 5th June, 1897. Collector 

 unknown to me. 



Saprinus castanipes, Curtis, Trans. Linn. Soc. xix. p. 442 

 (1845). 



An examination of the type specimen in the British Museum 

 proves this species to be the same as S. fulvopterus, Mars. 

 Curtis's name has the priority of ten years. Two other 

 species described by Curtis at the same time are S. Matthewsi 

 = S. bisignatus, Er., 1834, and S. furcatus = S. connectens, 

 Payk., 1811. 



Saprinus Iwsus, sp. n. 



Ovalis, supra aeneus, nitidus ; fronte dense punctata ; pronoto baud 

 ciliato ; elytris macula humerali rufa, stria suturali apice 



