new Species o/" Histeridse. 19 



marginal stria complete, punctures very similar to those of 

 headj but the larger points are absent on the disjj, along the 

 basal edge are oval and larger punctures, but they are less 

 conspicuous before the scutellum, there is no scutellar punc- 

 ture; the elytra, stri« crenulate, 1-4 complete, 4 bendin» a 

 little inwards at the base, 5 shortened just before the base, 

 sutural shortened by about one third and punctifovm poste- 

 riorly, humeral internal fine but entire ; the propygidium has 

 a very few transverse scattered punctures, and under the 

 microscope a fine punctuation can be seen on the pygidiuinj 

 the prosternum, striae parallel and joined at the base, but not 

 anteriorly ; the mesosternum, marginal stria well-marked and 

 complete ; the first segment of the abdomen has two lateral 

 strige on each side. 



This species in colour agrees somewhat with G. viridioolUs 

 and G. dominicanus, Mars. 



Hah. Vera Cruz {Herr R. Becker). 



Stictotix LecBj sp. n. 



Breviter ovalis, convexiusculus, obscure brunneus, subnitidus ; fronte 

 leviter concava, supra oculos elevata, utrinque inconspicue oblique 

 carinata ; pronoto margine elevate ; elytris utrinque tricarinatis ; 

 tibiis anticis versus medium dilatatis. 



L. If miU. 



Shortly oval, little convex, brown and somewhat shining ; 

 the head feebly concave and very irregularly punctured, 

 punctures varying in size and form, elevated over the eyes, 

 with the elevations continuing as somewhat obscure ridges 

 obliquely down the face (these ridges are not conspicuous like 

 those of S. Mormonij Lew., or S. frontalis^ Macl.), on the 

 vertex there is a very minute tubercle, only seen in certain 

 lights ; the thorax, the lateral edges are somewhat thickly 

 elevated and continued as a stria behind the head, stria partly 

 punctate, partly crenulate ; the elytra, epipleural margin, inner 

 and outer humeral striae are cariniform, dorsal strise 1-6 

 complete, but shallow and indistinct, with rows of punctures, 

 more or less regular and similar to those of the thorax, be- 

 tween them ; the pygidium somewhat closely punctured and 

 some of the punctures are incompletely circular ; the pro- 

 sternum, the keel is wide and somewhat opaque owing to a 

 densely granulate sculpture, lateral strige cariniform, especially 

 between the coxEe, before the coxge the strias widen out 

 gradually to the lateral edge of the anterior lobe, lobe sculp- 

 tured like the keel ; the mesosternum is bisinuous anteriorly 

 and transverse and narrow, only margined at the sides, and 



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