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rows; the nicfasfcrmini, suture straiglil and rat iicr coarsely 

 crcucllatc, the creuellatitms nuniljeriiig aliout twelve, the 

 puiictures are deej*, circular, very evenly j^laced, somewhat 

 ocellate and closely but not densely set ; the legs are obscurely 

 redtlish brown. 



This is the tilth species know n ti^ni Iiulia ; it is ot' ster- 

 cnraceous habits. 



JIab. Nil-iri Hills (//. L. Andrewcs). 



Sop r 171 us C(csopy(jus, Mars. 



I liave received examples of this species from Tucuman, 

 Arojentina; there is therefore no long-cr any doubt as to its 

 being a native of S. America. ^'. pi/zjidialis, Lew., is a 

 similar sjiecies, and in both the curious form of the pygidium 

 is a masculine character only. 



EUSPILOTUS, gen. nov. 



Body oval, shining, metallic; head without a definite 

 iiontal stria; thorax transverse; elytra maculate, sutural stria 

 Avith an arcuate basal extension ; prosternum, keel narrow, 

 bistriate, with a strong and straight carina on either side, as 

 .-hown in fig. 7 ; mesosternum widely sinuous and the 

 margin interrupted ; anterior tibiaj multidenticulate. 



1 he species to be included are Suprinus l>isl(/natus, de- 

 coratus, hpidus, Er.; crenatipes, ^iolier ; U/anchardi, Mars. ; 

 dichrous, Jiovoj)icitis, Icesits, and zonalis (type). Lew. 



The elytral markings of Saprinus interruplas, Pa) k., a 

 Central Asian sj>ecies,are remarkably similar to decoratus, and 

 1 give a figure of the prosternum to show that the species 

 are structurally very different. 



Fig-. 7. Fig. 8. 



Eujfiiilotus zonalis, I>ew. 



Supriims iidernqilus, Payk. 



Eusj,Uotus zonalisj sp. n. 



Ovatus, ajneus, nitidus; fronte dense punctata; pronoto ciliato, 

 lateribus late rugoso-punctatis ; olytris macula flava lata, striis 

 ]-2 brevissimis, suturali integra basi arcuata, cx-tcris nuUis ; 

 mcsosterno &tria margiuali interrupta ; tibiis anticis mulM- 

 denticulatis. 



L. 3|-4 mill. 



