6 Mr. G. Lewis on 



ApobJetes solutus, sp. ii. 



Obloiigo-ovjilis, flepressiuscuhxs, nij?er, nitidus ; fronte concfiva, stria 

 Integra aiitice tenviiter impressa ; pronoto lateribiis punctate, 

 Btria lateral! pone oculos minute interrupta ; elytris striis 1-3 

 integris, 4 et 5 apicalibus ; propygidio pygidioque punctatis ; 

 raesosterno late sinuato, marginato ; tibiis anticis 4-dentati8. 



L. 3;! mill. 



Oblong-oval, ratlier depressed, black, shining ; the head, 

 forehead concave, surface finely not thickly punctulate, stria 

 complete, transverse portion rather fine, but it is deep over 

 the eyes, before the eyes the edge is prominent and in front 

 of the projection the edge is bisinuous ; tlie thorax, lateral 

 stria rather strong and close to the edge, and it is disconnected 

 behind the eye with the stria behind the neck, which is 

 straight and crenulate on either side ; the sides of the thorax 

 have a band of scattered punctures ; the elytra, stri», there is 

 a very fine oblique humeral close to the base of the first stria, 

 1-3 complete and all turn feebly inwards at the base, 4 apical 

 and not quite a third of the elytral length, 5 indicated by two 

 or three junictures, sutural wanting ; the propygidiuin witii 

 two rather large sliallow foveje on either side behind, mode- 

 rately punctured, punctures most conspicuous in tlie fovew ; 

 the ])ygidium somewhat similarly punctured and very feebly 

 impressed on either side; the prosternum, anterior lobe micro- 

 scopically strigose, the strigosities ending at the suture, and 

 there are a few punctures scattered over the surface, the keel 

 gradually shelves off at the sides and tlie want of sculpture 

 on it is conspicuous as compared with the anterior lobe ; the 

 mesosternum is very widely sinuous anteriorly, with a rather 

 deep marginal stria wiiich stops abruptly before the base ; 

 the metasternura has an imlependent lateral stria; the anterior 

 tibife 4-dentate. 



This species is similar to A. parensi's, Mars., but ^a?^^^** 

 is larger and has no frontal stria. The elytral stria and the 

 fovcic of the pygidiuni and other small characters also distin- 

 guish it. 



Hub. Brazil (//. //. Smith). 



Apobleles mundus, sp. n. 



Oblongo-ovatuR, coniplanatus, piceus, iiilidus ; fronte tenuissinie 

 punclulata, baud striata, basi utrincjue breviter sulcata ; pronoto 

 marginato ; elytris striis 1-3 integris, 4 basi abbreviata, 5 sutu- 

 ralitiuo apicalibus ; propygidio sj)arse grosse punctato ; prostcrno 

 meso&ternoqiie hand striatis. 



L. lM-2| mill. 



