new Species of Histeridse. 179 



interstices raised and irregular, and those bordering- the suture 

 are cariniform, the lateral margin is carinate with a short 

 basal subhumeral carina, and down the middle of each 

 elytron is a well-marked carina commencing at the base and 

 terminating before the apex, behind the middle the carinas 

 bend towards each other but do not approach the suture ; 

 the propygidium, the sculpture is somewhat similar to that 

 of the head, the posterior margin is thickened and projecting, 

 and has a median and two lateral impressions ; the pygidium 

 is sculptured like the propygidium ; the presternum, keel 

 concave, with corresponding carinate edges, base smooth, 

 anterior lobe with large shallow punctures, which spread half- 

 way down the keel; the mesosternum, anterior and lateral 

 edges carinate, surface with large and clear punctures not 

 very closely set ; the metasternum similarly sculptured and 

 carinate laterally ; the fore legs are rather less angular than 

 those of T. Mniszechi, Mars., the intermediate and hinder 

 tibia? are not angulate, but project a little at the end of the 

 tarsal groove, and the tarsi are relatively much shorter than 

 those of Marseul's species. The posterior thighs have a con- 

 spicuous projecting obtuse process pointing towards the coxae 

 and close to the base or constricted part; in Marseul's 

 species this process is very conspicuous and truncate, but it i3 

 not shown in Marseul's figure. 

 liab. Santarem (H. II. Smith). 



Terapus Marseuli, Westw. 



Terapus Marseuli, Westw. Thesaurus, Ent. Oxon. p. 67, t. 3. fig. 9 

 (1874). 



" Niger, nitidissimus, minute punctatissimus ; pronoto angulis anticis 

 rotundatis, laevissimis, dorso sulco lato profundo medio, angulis 

 posticis elevatis, sulco transverso e parte autica separatis ; elytris 

 breviter ovatis, sutura depressa, singuli medio disci elevato, podice 

 sinuato ; pedibus elongatis ; tibiis omnibus extus pone medium 

 angulatis, apice extus sulcatis pro receptione tarsorum re- 

 curvorum. 



" Long. corp. lin. 2." 



From the above it will be noticed that the front tibiae are 

 acutely angulate in this species. 

 Ilab. Amazonia {Bates). 



Saprinus beatulus, sp. n. 



Breviter ovatus, cupreus, nitidus ; pedibus antennisque obscure 

 brunneis, clava rufa ; fronte parum dense punctata ; pronoto 

 elytrisque cum spatiis hevibus nitidis ; prosterno basi minute 

 strigoso. 



L. 2-2J mill. 



