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Mr. G. Lewis on 



Saprinodes falcifer^ Lew. 



Saprinodes falcifer, Lew. Aun. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 6, viii. p. 39-5 

 (1891). 



I give a figure of this curious Australian species (fig. 10) 

 and an enlarged outline showing the form of the anterior 

 tibia. 



Fiff. 10. 



Saprinodes falcifer, Lew. 



Hypocaccus ainii, sp. n. 



Ovalis, convexus, seneo-niger, nitidus ; fronte obscure rugosa, carina 

 valida ; pronoto post oculos foveolato ; elytris striis 1-4 dorsalibus 

 dimidiatis, 4 cum sufcurali arcuatim juucta ; pygidio punctato et 

 transversim rugose ; tibiis anticis valide 4-deutatis. 



L. 3 mill. 



Oval, convex, coppery black, shining ; the head, clypeus 

 rugose, frontal carina strong and angulate on eitlier side, 

 upper surface somewhat obscurely and very irregularly rugose, 

 the rugosities are confined to the anterior half; the thorax is 

 densely punctured at the sides, with a broad band of punc- 

 tures along the base and a narrow one behind the neck, disk 

 feebly punctulate, marginal stria angulate at a fovea behind 

 the eye and straight behind the neck ; the elytra, outer sub- 

 humeral stria is wanting, inner short and dimidiate with 

 an appendage split at both ends, strise 1-3 nearly equal 

 and reaching the middle, 4 as long as the tliird and joining 

 the sutural at the base, the surface is punctured only 

 behind the striae, the sutural stria is not continued along 

 the apex ; the propygidium is densely punctured ; the 

 pygidium is somewhat similarly pointed, but except at the 

 apex it is transversely rugose ; the prosternum is markedly 



