neio Species o/'Hisferidre. 157 



sttturali basi abbreviata ; propygidio grosse punctato ; pygidio 

 apice laevi ; tibiis anticis 4-denticulatis. 

 L. 3 mill. 



Oval, rather convex, brown and shining ; the head im- 

 pressed anteriorly, microscopically punctured, stria fine and 

 acuminate in the middle; the thorax smooth, scutellar fovea 

 circular, marginal stria fine, complete, and widely sinuous 

 behind the neck, lateral stria well-marked and the interstice 

 is somewhat wide, it ceases behind the eye and it is distinctly 

 crenate near the anterior angles ; the elytra, striae, humeral 

 apical and abbreviated before the middle, 1-3 dorsal complete, 

 4 not quite dimidiate, 5 somewhat shorter, sutural extends 

 just beyond the middle; the propygidium has rather large 

 shallow punctures, rather closely set ; the pygidium is smooth 

 from the apex to the middle and punctured along the base ; 

 the prosternum is rather broad and. without striae ; the meso- 

 sternum, marginal stria very fine and nearly straight anteriorly, 

 second stria is angulate on either side, very fine, and trans- 

 versely slightly bent : the anterior tibiae are 4-denticulate. 



Hub. Para, Brazil (H. II. Smith). 



Phelister pygidialis, sp. n. 



Ovalis, parum convexus, piceus, nitidus ; fronte haud impressa, stria 

 integra ; pronoto impunctato, stria laterali post oculos interrupta ; 

 elytris striis 1-3 subhumeralique integris, 4-5 dimidiatis, suturali 

 basi abbreviata ; propygidio grosse punctato ; pygidio circum 

 sulcato. 



L. 2f mill. 



Oval, rather convex, piceous, shining ; the head smooth, 

 not impressed anteriorly, frontal stria well-marked, complete, 

 and semicircular; the thorax impunctate and without a 

 scutellar fovea, marginal stria fine and complete, lateral stria 

 also fine and broken behind the eye, the detached portion 

 behind the neck is crenate and turned backwards at both ends 

 (resembling that of P. friburgicus, Mars., but the turned ends 

 are longer) ; the elytra, striae, humeral fine and complete, 

 1-3 dorsal also complete, 4-5 apical and not quite dimidiate, 

 sutural shortened at the base about one-third ; the pro- 

 pygidium is coarsely, not densely punctate ; the pygidium is 

 densely and finely punctulate, with some larger punctures 

 arranged transversely along its base, along the outer edge is a 

 remarkable narrow bordering furrow, which is deepest behind 

 the apex; the prosternum bistriate, striae equidistant laterally 

 and joined faintly at both ends ; the mesosternum, marginal 



