288 Mr. G. Lewis on 



stria Integra ; proiioto lateribus basiqiie punctate ; elytris striis 1-4 

 dorsalibiis in medio postice abbreviatis, suturali l)asi abbrcviata; 

 prostenio striis integris, suliparallelis ; mesostcrno marginato, 

 parce tt grosse punctato. 

 L. 9 mill. 



Oval, convex, witli a slight greenish brassy tinge ; the 

 liead and epistoma transverse (like that o? S.se7nipunctatus,F.) , 

 frontal stria well-marked and complete, vertex punctured, 

 punctures particularly conspicuous near the eyes ; the tiiorax, 

 marginal stria complete, along the sides is a broad band of 

 rather coarse punctures, which terminate behind the eyes but 

 continue more narrowly along the base nearly to the scutellum, 

 there is a small antiscutellar puncture j the elytra, dorsal strige 

 are rather oblique and punctured and in form otherwise closely 

 resemble those of S. sphndens, Er., figured in iMarseul's 

 monograph, fig. 22, but tlie second and third interstices are 

 smooth, the basal half of each elytron is rather coarsely and 

 closely punctured ; tlie propygidium is chiefly punctured at 

 the sides ; the pygidium has a fine median raised line and is 

 closely punctured, except at the apex which is nearly smooth ; 

 the presternum, keel is parallel and formed like that of S. semi- 

 punctatus, F., lateral strise are complete and feebly widen out 

 at the base ; the mesosternum is marginate and sparingly but 

 coarsely punctured ; the metasternum has a band of points 

 along its base. 



The species belongs to the semipunctatus-group, but the 

 punctuation of its mesosternum resembles that of S. optabilis, 

 Mars. Tn most of the large Saprini the mesosterna are 

 smooth. The type specimen of this species is the largest 

 Saprinus I liave seen. 



Hah. Tai-yuen-fu, Shansi : 5th June, 1897. Collector 

 unknown to me. 



SapAnus casfam'pes, Curtis, Trans. Linn. Soc. xix. p. 442 

 (1845). 



An examination of the type specimen in the British Museum 

 proves this species to be the same as S. fulvopterus, Mars. 

 Curtis's name has the priority of ten years. Two other 

 species described by Curtis at the same time are S. Matthewsi 

 = is. bisignatus, Er., 1834, and S. furcatus = S. connectensj 

 Payk., 1811. 



Saprinus Icesus, sp. n. 



Ovalis, supra seneus, nitidiis ; froiite dense punctata; pronoto hand 

 ciliato ; elytris macula humcrali rufa, stria suturali apice 



