6 Mr. G, Lewis on 



Apohhtes solutus, sp. n. 



Obloiigo-ovalis, depressiusculus, niger, nitidus ; fronte concava, stria 

 Integra antice tenuiter impressa ; pronoto lateribiis punctato, 

 stria lateral! pone oculos minute interrupta ; elytris striis 1-3 

 integris, 4 et 5 apicalibus ; propygidio pygidioque pnnctatis ; 

 mesosterno late sinuato, marginato ; tibiis anticis 4-dentati8. 



L. 3^ mill. 



Oblong-oval, rather depressed, black, shining; the head, 

 forehead concave, surface finely not thickly punctulate, stria 

 complete, transverse portion rather fine, but it is deep over 

 the eyes, before the eyes the edge is prominent and in front 

 of the projection the edge is bisinuous ; the thorax, lateral 

 stria rather strong and close to the edge, and it is disconnected 

 behind the eye with the stria beliind the neck, which is 

 straight and crenulate on either side ; the sides of the thorax 

 have a band of scattered punctures ; the elytra, striae, there is 

 a very fine oblique humeral close to the base of the first stria, 

 1-3 complete and all turn feebly inwards at the base, 4 apical 

 and not quite a third of the elytral length, 5 indicated by two 

 or three punctures, sutural wanting ; the propygidiura with 

 two rather large shallow foveas on either side behind, mode- 

 rately punctured, punctures most conspicuous in the fovejB ; 

 the pygidium somewhat similarly punctured and very feebly 

 impressed on either side; the prosternum, anterior lobe micro- 

 scopically strigose, the strigosities ending at the suture, and 

 there are a few punctures scattered over the surface, the keel 

 gradually shelves off at the sides and the want of sculpture 

 on it is conspicuous as compared with tlie anterior lobe ; the 

 mesosternum is very widely sinuous anteriorly, with a rather 

 deep marginal stria which stops abruptly before the base ; 

 the metasternum has an independent lateral stria ; the anterior 

 tibiffi 4-dentate. 



This species is similar to A. parensis^ Mars., h\xi parensis 

 is larger and has no frontal stria. The elytral stria and the 

 foveiB of the pygidium and other small characters also distin- 

 guish it. 



IJab. Brazil [H. H. Smith). 



Apohletes munduSj sp. n. 



Oblongo-ovatus, complanatus, piceus, nitidus ; fronte tenuissime 

 punctulata, baud striata, basi utrinque breviter sulcata ; pronoto 

 marginato ; elytris striis 1-3 integris, 4 basi abbreviata, 5 sutu- 

 ralique apicalibus ; propygidio sparse grosse punctato ; prosterno 

 mesosteriioque baud striatis. 



L. 2i-2| mill. 



