180 On new Species o/Histeridas. 



Shortly oval, convex, coppery and shining ; the head 

 transverse, rather densely and snbocellately punctured, stria 

 complete, carinate anteriorly, straight in the middle, sinuous 

 on either side ; the thorax, punctate like the head, marginal 

 stria complete, before the scutellum is a cone-shaped smooth 

 area which extends to the middle of the disk, on either side 

 there are two basal, two median, and one anterior smooth 

 spaces, the last is behind the eye, the inner spaces are . 

 irregular and sometimes join ; the elytra punctate like the 

 thorax, with a smooth space at the base between the sutural 

 and fourth stria? and there is an irregular transverse smooth 

 band behind it, the apical border is smooth and there is a 

 space between the second and third striee smooth, the smooth 

 area is truncate anteriorly and posteriorly widens out across 

 the third and fourth striae, a small humeral boss is smooth, 

 and near the apex in a line with it is an irregular small 

 smooth space ; the propygidium is wholly punctate ; the 

 pygidiura has two longitudinal smooth median bands, the 

 bands touch the base only ; the prosternum, keel strigose at 

 the base, strise join behind and inclose a lobe-shaped punctate 

 surface, before the coxas the stria? are close together and 

 parallel to each other, on either side of the keel is a strong 

 bent carina, anterior lobe roughly punctured ; the meso- 

 sternum widely sinuous anteriorly, surface clearly and rather 

 densely punctate, marginal stria obliterated in the middle ; 

 the metasternum is smooth, with a band of punctures along 

 the base which widens out in the middle towards the disk, 

 and there is also a cluster of punctures on each side behind 

 the anterior angles ; the first abdominal segment has some- 

 what similar punctures, but they continue laterally as a broad 

 even band. 



This species belongs to the same group as S. elegantulus, 

 Mars., but its outline is less oval. 



Mab. Cape of Good Hope. Discovered by Mr. L. Perin- 

 guey associated with llodvtermes Ilavilandi, i3h. 



Teretriosoma conigerum, Lew. Eiol. Cent.-Amer., Col. vol. ii. pt. 1, 

 p. 223, pi. vii. figs. 2, 2 c, 2 b (1888). 



Teretriosoma conigerum } Lew. 



migerum, Lew. Biol. Cent.-Amer., 

 figs. 2, 2 a, 2 6 (1888). 



The original specimen of this species came from Guate- 

 ala, but recently examples have been taken in Texas, 

 " under bark of decaying posts and by beating heavy 

 tangled masses of vines and bushes where a good many dead 

 branches were intertwined " {Wickham). 



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