302 Mr. G. Lewis on 



1-4 dimidiatis, 4 cum suturali arcuatim juncta ; pygidio vix 

 dense punctato ; prostorno striis utrinque divergentibus ; meso- 

 sterno leviter puuctato, marginato ; tibiis auticis 8-9-denticiilati3. 

 L. 4| mm. 



Oval, convex, brassy, very shining; the head usually with a 

 small fovea on the vertex, strigosely and densely punctured, 

 the strigosities giving the punctures an appearance of con- 

 tluence, frontal stria complete and angularly joined behind the 

 epistoma ; the thorax markedly ciliate along the edge, with a 

 somewhat shallow fovea behind each eye, disk smooth, lateral 

 margin sculptured like the head; the elytra, striae 1-4 

 dimidiate, all equal in lengtli, 4 joins the sutural which is 

 complete, 5 dorsal and very short, punctuation fine and not 

 close, occupying nearly half of the apical area, and finer on 

 the interstices of the 2iid, 3rd, and 4th stride, the interstice of 

 1 and 2 is more distinctly sculptured and somewhat strigose ; 

 the pygidia are very evenly but not very densely punctured; 

 the prosternum is bistriate, striai somewhat constricted in the 

 middle and divergent at each end ; the mesosternum is mar- 

 giiiate and its surface liglitly sculptured ; the anterior tibia? 

 8-9-denliculate. 



Tliis species resembles S. discoidalis, Lee, in the form of 

 the prosternum, and it is a little like it in its general facies. 

 The foim of the frontal stria is a distinguishing character. 



Hah. Argentina {H. Bichier, No. 277). 



Sciprinus schmidlii, Kichter, Ent. Nachr. xv. p. 124 (1889). 



" Rotundo-ovatus, seneo-cupreus, nitidus ; fronte cariuata, rugose 

 punctata ; thorace ciliato, dense, lateribus rugose, punctato, disco 

 postico Iffivi ; elytris densissime punctatis, areis Iffivibus, duabus 

 basalibus, altera magna ad scutellum in 4" interstitio, altera 

 minora in 2°, tribusque apicalibus, stria suturali integra cum 4' 

 coeunte, dorsalibus longis areas posticas atlingentibus, 2* quarta- 

 que paulo brevioribus, subhumerali interna sat longa, externa 

 inconspicua ; prosterno striis postice divergentibus, ante coxas 

 mox unitis, sub apicem evanescentibus, mesosterno punctulato ; 

 tibiis anticis 5-dentatis. 



" L, 21 mm. 



' " Hah. regio flum. Nigri." 



This species belongs to the same group as S. spectllum and 

 sculpturife?', Mars. 



Euspilotus colomhicus. 

 Saprinus colotnbicus, Kirsch, Abh. Mus. Dresden, p. 3 (1888-89). 

 This species should be placed in the genus Euspilotus. 



