7iew Species of Histeridfe. 7 



Oblong-oval, flat, piceous, shining ; the head, surface even, 

 with extremely fine evenly scattered punctures, at the base on 

 either side are two short furrows, it is angulate on the sides 

 over the eyes and very minutely bisinuous before the angle ; 

 the thorax with similar punctures to those of the head, mar- 

 ginal stria complete and close tO the edge ; the elytra, striae 

 1-3 complete, 4 shortened at the base, 5 apical, dimidiate, 

 and very feebly oblique, sutural half the length of the fifth 

 only, being shortened apically, it is also slightly oblique ; 

 both humeral striaj are wanting ; the propygidiura has some 

 shallow punctures along its base, and a very few similar points 

 are scattered irregularly over the surface ; the pygidium has 

 relatively large punctures, also irregular, but more closely 

 set together ] the prosternum is without stride ; the meso- 

 sternum is very widely emarginate, also without a stria; the 

 metasternum has a lateral stria, but the suture between it and 

 the mesosternum is scarcely visible; the anterior tibiee 

 4-dentate. 



Hab. " Usambara, Derema, 850 m. December, 1891. 

 Condrat, S." In the Berlin Museum and my own collection. 



Apobletes almeidoe^ sp. n. 



Oblongus, parallelus, depressiusculus, niger, nitidus ; fronte fere 

 plana, antice haud striata, punctulata ; pronoto stria marginali 

 Integra ; elytris striis 1-2 et 4 completis, 5 apicali brevissima, 

 suturali basi multo abbreviata, paulum obliqua ; propygidio 

 pygidioque irregulariter punctatis ; prosterno bistriato, striis 

 anticis divergentibus. 



L. 2| mill. 



Oblong, parallel, rather depressed ; forehead slightly 

 uneven, without a transverse stria, but marginate over the 

 eyes, surface sparingly punctulate ; the thorax punctulate 

 very similarly to the head, but the punctures more distinctly 

 vary in size, hind angles rectangular, anterior obtuse, marginal 

 stria laterally close to the edge, but behind the neck it is 

 further from the margin ; along the basal edge there is a row 

 of punctures, but they do not meet before the scutellum ; the 

 elytra, strias 1, 2, 4 complete, o broken or evanescent in the 

 middle, 5 consists of a very short apical line, the sutural is 

 apical but reaches beyond the middle of the dorsum, and is not 

 parallel to the suture, but gradually widens slightly from it 

 to the apex, the apical border has a few hue punctures ; the 

 propygidium is nairowly transverse, with scattered points of 

 varying sizes ; the pygidium is semicircular in outline, with 

 a shallow depression on either side at the base, and round the 



