Impedes of Histeridfe. 4 2.^ 



Coryph(2iis pilosus, sp. n. 



Breviter ovatiis, parum convexus, ^^^ifli-cyaneus, pilosus, supra 

 punctulatus ; fronte in medio canaliciilata ; pronoto convexo ; 

 olytris striis l»-3'" subintegris ; prosterno bistriato ; mesosterno 

 immarginato, antice subacute producto. 



L. 6| mill. 



Shortly oval, little convex, pilose, entirely and rather 

 densely punctulate above, greenish blue, metallic ; the fore- 

 head with a shallow median channel, which divides in front 

 and foims a rather broad hamate impression along the ante- 

 rior edge, the lateral stria over the eyes is very obscurely 

 marked, if not obsolete; the thorax — lateral margin very 

 narrow and punctulate, and within it a lateral band of large 

 grater-like punctures (Marseul called similar punctures in 

 C. Wallacei " rapeux "), the band is narrower than in Mar- 

 scul's species and inclined to be broken in the middle, and is 

 widest behind the anterior angle, in front of the scutellum 

 tlicro is a minute shining boss ; the scutellum is very small, 

 triangular, and quite smooth ; the elytra — stria?, subhumeral 

 arched and not well-marked, humeral evanescent towards 

 the apex, dorsal 1-3 rather wide but shallow and termi- 

 nating apically in punctulate impressions, the dorsal disk is 

 uneven and is free from the brown pilosity ; the propygidium 

 and pygidium are much less eyaneous than the elytra, but are 

 similarly punctulate ; the prosternum bistriate, stria? joining 

 anteriorly, keel finely punctulate ; the mesosteruum rather 

 acutely produced in front, immarginate, punctulate like the 

 keel ; the femora greenish, tibiae brownish and pilose, formed 

 as in C. Wallacei, the tarsal grooves of the anterior tibia3 

 being shallow, and the outer edges of the tibi^ are straight. 



Hah. Tenimbcr [Doherty). 



This species differs chiefly from C. Wallacei, Mars., in 

 being pilose and wholly punctulate above, with thorax con- 

 vex at the sides as well as on the disk, and by the meta- 

 sternum being somewhat acutely produced anteriorly. Mar- 

 seul published the genus Coryphanis in 1864, but in 1869 he 

 placed it in a supplementary Catalogue (Ann. Soc. Ent. 

 Belgique, xiii. p. 133) as a subgenus of Pachycrwriis. It is 

 entitled to full generic rank, and 1 think the position assigned 

 to it in this paper better than placing it near PachycrcErus. 



Synoditus Schmidti, sp. n. 



Ovatiis, setosus, piceus, nitidus, pedibus concoloribus : elytris striis 

 integris puuctitbrmibus, interstitiis laivibus ; prosterno bioarinato. 



