I.IO On new Species o/'IIisteridse. 



nietasteinuiii is also similarly punctured with a sliglit median 

 depression ; the anterior and intermediate tibiae are strongly 

 angulate on the outer edge, and the Hrst have three tubercles 

 or dentations on the outside edge of the tarsal groove, the 

 posterior tibiie are falciform. 



L. 5;^ mill. 



llab. Brazil (Minas). Sertao de Diamantlna (TtJ. G^yM/ic?^c, 

 November 1902). 



Saprinus dichrous, sp. n. 



Oval is, nigpr, nitidus, convexiusculus ; fronte hand striata ; pro- 

 noto ciliato, lateribus rugoso-puuctatis ; elytris macula rneflia 

 transversa flava, striis 4 saturalique arcu basali coeuute; tibiis 

 anticis dilatatis, 8-9-spiuosis. 



L. 31 mill. 



Oval, black and shining ; the head densely punctured and 

 somewhat rugose, without a frontal stria ; the thorax is 

 ciliate at the sides and laterally punctate like the head ; the 

 f lytra have a yellow median band wiiich projects towards the 

 base at the first stria and is divided in the middle by a dark 

 suture, surface rather evenly and closely punctured from the 

 middle to the apical portion, the strite 1-2 are nearly dimidiate 

 and equal in length, 3 basal oblique and very short, 4 dimi- 

 diate and joined to the sutural at the base, sutural complete ; 

 the pygidia are densely punctured. 



Differs chiefly from S. crenatipes, Sol., in the elytral band 

 nearly meeting in the middle, the dorsal punctuation is more 

 spread, and the fourth and sutural striae are united. The 

 jjrosternal keel is very narrow before the coxa^, and the stria) 

 diverge at the sides and at an angle before the coxai join a 

 lateral carina. 



Jlah. Puerto, S. America. 



Saprinus JlavojjictuSy sp. n. 



Kiger, a3ncu3, nitidus ; fronte dense rugoso-punctata ; pronoto 

 ciliato, in medio nitido, laevi, lateribus late et dcnsissime rugoso- 

 puuctatis ; elytris basi rugosis, macula flava, stria suturali iu- 

 tegra, striis cteteris obsoletis ; pvgidio dense punctate. 



L. 3-3i mill. 



Similar to S. decoratus, Er., but the head is more 

 densely and more rugosely punctured, the thoracic sculpture 

 is more dense and much more conspicuous, and the dark 

 portion of tiie elytra is narrow and sutural only behind the 

 middle of the dorsum : in other respects the pattern is 

 eiuiilar to that of decoratus. The piosternal keel is also 



