new Species of Histeridaa. 157 



orobites, Lew., &c. ; but whether the Indian species are in 

 any way associated with termites is not known at present. 



Of the American species noticed in this paper, Terapus 

 carinatus and Termitoxenus strigicollis are the most re- 

 markable. 



List of Species. 



Hololepta paropsis. Hister tunicatus. 



africanae. Epierus festivus. 



malarias, Lew. Wickhami. 



Placodes ebeninus, Lew. Carcinops tenuistriata. 



Apobletes tuberculifrona. Monoplius pinguis, Lew . 



Platysoma pinnigerum. Pelorurus carinatus. 



extrarium, Leiv. costipennis. 



Anaglynima verula. Hetaerius tristriatus, Horn. 



punctipennis. brunneipemiis, Rand. 



Pachycraerus princeps. Termitoxenus strigicollis. 



octostriatus. Discoscelis amazoniae. 



euphorbias. Homalopygus amnicola. 



verulamii. Terapus bicarinatus. 



Homalodes fortunatus. Marseuli, Westw. 



Hister tardigradus. Sapriuus beatulu8. 



sedulus. Teretriosoraa conigeruui, Lew. 



Plohri. Abraeus cohaeres. 



sarcinatus. 



Hololepta paropsis, sp. n. 



Elongata, depressa, nigra, nitida ; fronte leviter impressa, haud 

 striata ; pronoto impunctato, stria laterali integra ; elytris striis 

 2 dorsalibus brevissimis, l a apppendiculata, fossa subhumerali 

 laevi utrinque abbreviata ; propygidio sulco arcuatim completo ; 

 pygidio inflexo, opaco, impunctato. 



L. 7 mill, (absque mandibulis). 



Elongate, depressed, black and shining; the head impunc- 

 tate and without striae, feebly impressed between the man- 

 dibles ; the thorax ( $ ) slightly emarginate at the anterior 

 angle, and the lateral stria ends anteriorly in a small circular 

 fovea behind the emargination ; the elytra have two short 

 basal striae and the first has a short apical appendage, the 

 subhumeral sulcus is smooth and not very wide and is abbre- 

 viated before and behind ; the propygidium has a complete 

 arched sulcus, and there are a few small points along its poste- 

 rior border ; the pygidium is reflexed, acutely terminated on 

 each side, opaque and impunctate ; the presternum broad and 

 sinuous laterally ; the mentum in the male is carinate, but 

 the carination is extremely small and inconspicuous. 



This is the only species of African origin known with an 

 impunctate pygidium, and it is the only one at present 



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