254 Mr. G. Lewis on 



Oblong, depressed, black and shining ; forehead with t\ro 

 short transverse stride ; the thorax has a narrow band of 

 lateral punctures sparsely set and not quite on the edge^ the 

 lateral stria passes the basal angle and also the anterior angle, 

 the male has no emargination or fovea ; the elytra, striae, 

 subhunieral rather wide and shortened before and behind, 

 first dorsal basal and about one-quarter of the elytral length, 

 second broken not far from the base ; the propygidinm is 

 wholly punctured^ but somewhat sparingly, and the points 

 on the disc are smaller than those on the sides ; the pygidiura 

 is somewhat densely pnnctured and the ])oints are again 

 smaller on the median area, the apex is narrowly smooth ; 

 the anterior tibise are 4-dentate, the two apical teeth have a 

 common base. 



The form of this species is distinctly oblong and like 

 Hololepta caracasica, ]Mars., and Lioderma jjervalidum, Blais. ; 

 it has the disc of the propygidinm punctate, a characteristic 

 seldom seen in either genus. 



Hab. Argentina. 



Hololepta haulnyi, Mars. 



Marseul (Mon. p. 399, 1857) described the female of this 

 species ; the male has no carina on the mentum, the anterior 

 thoracic angle is feebly notched, and the fossette is deep and 

 oval and near, but not in, the angle. 



Hololepta vagata, sp. n. 



Oblongo-ovalis, depressa, nigra, nitida ; pronoto lateribus parce 

 punctulato ; elytris striis 2 dorsalibus brevissimis, l'^ appendicu- 

 lata ; propygidio toto sparsim punctulato ; pygidio dense punc- 

 tat'o. 



L. 7 mm. (absque mandibulis). 



Oblong-oval, depressed, black and shining ; the forehead 

 feebly impressed and without stria, mentum of the male is 

 not carinate, mandibles slightly swollen in the middle, the 

 vertex of the head has two small fovcffi (doubtful as to being 

 constant) ; the thorax, lateral margin with a band of rather 

 fine punctures not densely set, anterior angle minutely 

 notched, with a rather deep circular fossette close to the edge ; 

 the elytra, the outer basal stria has a short and straight 

 apical appendage ; the propygidinm has scattered punctures, 

 but at no point are the punctures close together, and the 

 median area is almost free of them, apically there are two 

 shallow impressions ; the pygidium is closely punctate ; the 



