468 Mr. G. Lewis on new 



species, which has been found in Besika Bay in a rotten tree, 

 in company with the rare Hister Ariasi. It is very closely 

 allied to punctatus, but is smaller, less oblong, more coarsely 

 and more thickly punctured, and all the dorsal stria? are more 

 deeply impressed. The fifth and sutural stria? are always 

 well defined, and in one example I have they are as deep as 

 the others. Beneath, the plate of the abdominal segment 

 joining the metasternum is more quadrate and the apex of 

 the mesosternum is distinctly less sinuate. It is very different 

 from Xavieri, of which, from description, Marseul thought it 

 might be a variety. 



Dendrodipnis grandis, Reitter, has been recorded in error 

 by Herr Schmidt as a Dendrophilus. 



Dendrophilus Jinitirmis, Walker (Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 

 1859, p. 53), is a species of Carcinops with large dorsal 

 punctures. 



Saprinus ruhrtpes, Walker, 1871 (nee Erichson, 1834), and 

 cequalis, Walker, cannot be made out by the descriptions. I 

 notice them here because Herr Job.. Schmidt includes them 

 in his carefully compiled list of 1884. 



The descriptions read as follows : — 



Saprinus cequalis. — Black, extremely thickly and minutely 

 punctured. Prothorax with a smooth and shining disk. 

 Each elytron with five oblique and abbreviated stria? ; space 

 towards the suture smooth, shining. Legs slightly fringed 

 with gilded bristles. Length of body 3 lines. 



Saprinus rubripes. — Black, shining, very thickly and 

 minutely punctured. Antenna? and legs deep red. Each 

 elytron with five slightly oblique stria?, which do not extend 

 beyond half the length from the base ; a small smooth space 

 adjoining the fore part of each suture. Length of the body 

 ] J line. 



Motschulsky's genus Styphrus has been admitted into 

 Herr Schmidt's list ; but Harold did right in refusing to 

 recognize it in the Munich Catalogue. The generic character 

 is simply " Styphrus corpulentus, M., Ce genre de Histerides 

 est remarquable par son corps convexe ;" and the species is 

 characterized as " Le St. corpulentus est noir et horde" d'un 

 poil roussatre. II est de la taille du Sajyrinus nitidulus, 

 auquel il ressemble, et provient de Tourcomenie." 



Xenonychus altus } n. sp. 



Ovatus, brevis, perconvexus, brunneus, subnitidus ; fronte laevi inter 

 oculos angulatim striata ; pronoto undique transversim vermicu- 



