neio Species o/Histeridfe. 169 



tered points are visible under a good leas, feebly convex 

 within the stria, stria complete ; the thorax, lateral internal 

 striaj complete and continuing behind the head, external 

 terminating anteriorly after passing the angle, interstices of 

 equal breadth throughout, the antescutellar point is round, 

 small, and close to the edge, there are rather long flavous 

 hairs on the lateral edge ; the elytra, the only humeral stria 

 is short, basal, and oblique, almost touching the base of the 

 first stria, 1-2 dorsal complete, 3 basal, almost reaching the 

 middle, then interrupted, with a short apical appendage, 5 

 apical and very short, sutural shortened before and behind, 

 the black scutellar marking widens out a little at the base ; 

 the propygidium is impressed on either side posteriorly and 

 the punctuation, like that of the pygidium, is sparse ; the pro- 

 sternum without stria, surface microscopically strigose ; the 

 raesosternum rather widely emarginate, stria follows the out- 

 line anteriorly ; the suture between the meso- and raetasterna 

 is acuminate in the middle, the acumination pointing back- 

 wards ; tiie fore tibiee are relatively more dilated than in any 

 other American species, tiie outer edge is entirely occupied by 

 two blunt teeth, corresponding closely to those of H. instratus^ 

 but wider and smooth, the intermediate and posterior legs 

 resemble those of H. sellitus^ Lee, and are not unlike those 

 of a species of Pachylopus. 



Hub. Vera Cruz. Two examples were taken by Mr. Julius 

 Flohr in December 1889. Tlie second example is probably 

 now in the Berlin Museum. 



Hister sarcinatuSy sp. n. 



Oblongo-ovatus, convexus, uiger, nitidus ; fronte leviter impressa, 

 stria Integra antice recta, subinterrupta ; pronoto, stria latei-ali 

 externa brevi, interna Integra ; elytris partim rubris, striis 1-3 

 integris, 4-5 brevissimis, suturali ante medium abbreviata ; pro- 

 pygidio pygidioque perspicuis punctatis ; mesosterno vix late 

 emargiuato, stria Integra; tibiis antiois 3-dentatis, dente apicali 

 bifido. 



L. 5i mill. 



Oblong-oval, convex, black and shining ; the head rather 

 wide and slightly impressed in front, stria straight anteriorly 

 and apparently broken in the middle, mandibles finely punc- 

 tulate ; tlie thorax, marginal stria conspicuously ending after 

 passing a point behind the eye, outer lateral short, bent, and 

 limited to the area of the anterior angle, inner lateral rather 

 strong, not reaciiing the base, feebly sinuous, leaving the 

 umrgin widest in the middle and continuing with crenulate 



