232 Mr. G. Lewis on 



Oval, convex, black and shining, with a very minute and 

 sparse punctuation ; tlie head, frontal stria somewhat irre- 

 gular but complete ; the thorax is thickened laterally between 

 the marginal and inner stria, and the edge is distinctly sinuous 

 behind the anterior angle, marginal stria fine and only seen 

 from above at and near the anterior angle, inner lateral is 

 strong and rather widely sinuous in the middle, and continues 

 behind the head_, where it is somewhat crenulate and fine, the 

 scutellar puncture is small but clear; the elytra, stria3, outer 

 humeral is faintly crenulate, bending inward towards the 

 apex, inclining outward anteriorly, and shortened before the 

 base, inner humeral wanting, but there is a short basal oblique 

 stria joined to the first dorsal, 1-3 dorsal complete, 4 finer 

 and reaching just beyond the middle, 5 shorter, sutural nearly 

 as long as the fourth ; the propygidium and the pygidium are 

 clearly, rather finely, and not closely punctured; the pro- 

 sterrmm is without striae, the surface (and that of the meso- 

 sternum) is microscopically strigose, and the anterior lobe is 

 conspicuously margined with a strong stria or sulcus, which 

 is nearest the edge at the apex ; the mesosternuin is widely 

 sinuous, with the marginal stria complete ; anterior tibiae 

 5-dentate. 



Hishr reh'itus, Mars., which has been likened to the 

 European corvinus, Germ., and H. coynatus^ Lee, and //. mar- 

 ffimcolli's, Lee, all somewhat resemble the above species, but 

 the pygidia of these species are densely punctate. 



Bab. Texas. 'J'aken by the late Mr. Julius Flohr in the 

 winter of 1893. I have only one example, but it is probable 

 there are more in the museum in Berlin, to which institution 

 Mr. Flohr leit his collections. 



Ulster gihherosus, sp. n. 



Ovalis, couvexiuscnlus, niger, nitidus ; fronte stria valida, supra 

 oculos angulata ; elytris striis 1-3 validis integris, 4 leviter im- 

 pressa completa, 5 et suturali apicalibus ; propygidio bi-impresso, 

 grosse et dense punctate ; pygidio bilobo, necnon grosse punctate ; 

 prosterno bistriato, striis antice et postice junctis ; tibiis anticis 

 4-dentati3. 



L. 5| mill. 



Oval, somewhat convex, black and shining ; the head is 

 feebly bi-impressed behind the frontal stria, stria strong, sinuous 

 behind the mandibles, deep and angulate over the eyes, and 

 continues transversely along the base of the head ; the thorax, 

 the marginal stria is fine and most conspicuous at the anterior 

 angle, lateral stria ceases anteriorly behind the eye, inner 



