new Species o/* Histeridse. 19 



marginal stria coraplete, punctures verj similar to those of 

 head, but the larger points are absent on the disk, along the 

 basal edge are oval and larger punctures, but they are less 

 conspicuous before the scutellura, there is no scutellar punc- 

 ture j the elytra, stria3 crenulate, 1-4 complete, 4 banding a 

 little inwards at the base, 5 shortened just before the bas3, 

 sutural shortened by about one third and punctiform poste- 

 riorly, humeral internal fine but entire ; the propygidiura has 

 a very few transverse scattered punctures, and under the 

 microscope a fine punctuation can be seen on the pygidium; 

 the prosternura, stria3 parallel and joined at the base, but not 

 anteriorly ; the mesosternum, marginal stria well-marked and 

 coraplete ; the first segment of the abdomen has two lateral 

 strias on each side. 



This species in colour agrees somewhat with C. viridicollis 

 and G. domimcanuSy Mars. 



Hah. Vera Cruz [Herr R. Becker). 



Stictotix Lece, sp. n. 



Breviter ovalis, convexiusculus, obscure brunneus, subnitidus ; fronte 

 leviter concava, supra oculos elevata, utrinque inconspicue oblique 

 carinata ; pronoto margiue elevato ; elytris utrinque tricarinatis ; 

 tibiis anticis versus medium dilatatis. 



L. If mill. 



Shortly oval, little convex, brown and somewhat shining ; 

 the head feebly concave and very irregularly punctured, 

 punctures varying in size and form, elevated over the eyes, 

 M'ith the elevations continuing as somewhat obscure ridges 

 obliquely down the face (these ridges are not conspicuous like 

 those of S. Mormoni, Lew., or S. frontalis^ Macl.), on the 

 vertex there is a very minute tubercle, only seen in certain 

 lights ; the thorax, the lateral edges are somewhat thickly 

 elevated and continued as a stria behind the head, stria partly 

 punctate, partly crenulate ; the elytra, epipleural margin, inner 

 and outer humeral striae are cariniform, dorsal strice 1-6 

 complete, but shallow and indistinct, with rows of punctures, 

 more or less regular and similar to those of the thorax, be- 

 tween them ; the pygidium somewhat closely punctured and 

 some of the punctures are incompletely circular; the pro- 

 sternum, the keel is wide and somewhat opaque owing to a 

 densely granulate sculpture, lateral striae cariniform, especially 

 between the coxae, before the coxae the stria3 widen out 

 gradually to the lateral edge of the anterior lobe, lobe sculp- 

 tured like the keel ; the mesosternum is bisinuous anteriorly 

 and transverse and narrow, only margined at the sides, and 



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