24 'My. G. Lewis on 



Sap rin odes fa Ic ife r, Lew. 



Saprinodes fakifer, Lew. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 6, viii. p. 39-5 



(1891). ' 



I give a figure of this curious Australian species (fig. 10) 

 and an enlarged outline showing the form of the anterior 

 tibia. 



Fio-. 10. 



Saprinodes falcifer , Lew. 



Hypocaccus ainii, sp. n. 



Ovalis, convexus, asneo-niger, nitidus ; fronte obscure rugosa, carina 

 valida ; pronoto post oculos foveolato ; elytris striis 1— i dorsalibus 

 dimidiatis, 4 cum suturali arcuatira juncta ; pygidio punctato et 

 transversim rugose ; tibiis anticis valide 4-dentatis. 



L. 3 mill. 



Oval, convex, coppery black, shining ; the head, clypcus 

 rugose, frontal carina strong and angulate on either side, 

 upper surface somewhat obscurely and very irregularly rugose, 

 the rugosities are confined to the anterior lialf ; the thorax is 

 densely punctured at the sides, with a broad band of punc- 

 tures along tlie base and a narrow one behind the neck, disk 

 feebly punctulate, marginal stria angulate at a fovea behind 

 the eye and straight behind the neck ; the elytra, outer sub- 

 humeral stria is wanting, inner short and dimidiate with 

 an appendage split at both ends, striie 1-3 nearly equal 

 and reaching the middle, 4 as long as the third and joining 

 tlie sutural at the base, the surface is punctured only 

 behind the stria?, the sutural stria is not continued along 

 the apex ; the propygidium is densely punctured ; tlie 

 pygidium is somewhat similarly pointed, but except at the 

 apex it is transversely rugose ; the prosternum is markedly 



