new Species of Wisicndis. 179 



interstices raised and irregular, and those bordering the suture 

 are cariniforra, the lateral margin is carinate with a short 

 basal subhumeral carina, and down the middle of each 

 elytron is a v/ell-marked carina commencing at tlie base and 

 terniinating before the apex, behind the middle the carinas 

 bend towards each otlier but do not approacii the suture ; 

 the propygidium, the sculpture is somewhat similar to that 

 of the head, the posterior margin is thickened and projecting, 

 and has a median and two lateral impressions ; the pygidium 

 is sculptured like the propygidium ; the prosternum, keel 

 concave, with corresponding carinate edges, base smooth, 

 anterior lobe with large shallow punctures, which spread half- 

 way down the keel ; the mesosternum, anterior and lateral 

 edges carinate, surface with large and clear punctures not 

 very closely set ; the metasternum similarly sculptured and 

 carinate laterally ; the fore legs are rather less angular than 

 those of T. Mniszechi, Mars., the intermediate and hinder 

 tibise are not angulate, but project a little at the end of the 

 tarsal groove, and the tarsi are relatively much shorter than 

 those of Marseul's species. The posterior thighs have a con- 

 spicuous projecting obtuse process pointing towards the coxae 

 and close to the base or constricted part; in Marseul's 

 species this process is very conspicuous and truncate, but it is 

 not shown in Marseul's figure. 

 Hab. Santarem {H. H. Smith). 



Terapus Marseuli, Westvv. 



Terapus Marseuli, Westw. Thesaurus, Ent. Oxon. p. 67, t. 3. fig. 9 

 (1874). 



" Niger, nitidissimua, minute punctatissimus ; pronoto angulis anticis 

 rotundatis, laevissimis, dorso sulco late prol'undo medio, angulis 

 posticis elevatis, sulco transverso e parte aatica separatis ; elytris 

 breviter ovatis, sutura depressa, singuli medio disci elevate, podice 

 sinuato ; pedibus elongatis ; tibiis omnibus extus pone medium 

 angulatis, apice extus sulcatis pro receptione tarsorum re- 

 curvorum. 



" Long. Corp. lin. 2." 



From the above it will be noticed that the front tlbia3 are 

 acutely angulate in this species. 

 Hah. Amazonia {Bates). 



Saprinus beatulus, sp. n. 



Breviter ovatus, cupreus, nitidus ; pedibus antennisque obscure 

 brunneis, clava rufa ; fronte parum dense punctata ; pronoto 

 elytrisque cum spatiis Isevibus nitidis ; prosterno basi minute 

 strigoso. 



L. 2-2i mill. 



