26 Mr. G. Lewis on 



Hypocaccus ruhricatus^ sp. n. 



Parum late ovalis, convexus, niger, nitidus, elytris partim rufis ; 

 fronte punctata, triangulariter carinata ; pronoto marginato, punc- 

 tate ; elytris striis dorsalibus 2-4 magis abbreviatis, 1 longiore, 

 4 arcuatim cum suturali juncta, subhumerali externa nulla, interna 

 brevi, disjuncta ; pygidio sequaliter et sat dense punctato. 



L. 2| mill. 



Kather widely oval, tlie elytra beliind the shoulders being 

 a little prominent, black, with the elytra laterally broadly 

 red, and at and near the humeral angles this colour extends 

 acrops the interstices of the first and second strige ; the head 

 evenly and clearly but not very densely punctured, with a 

 •well-marked sinuous carina separating the epistoma from the 

 head, and being continued behind obliquely meets on the 

 vertex and thus incloses a triangular space — there are also 

 carinas over the eyes which join the anterior sinuous carina, 

 these ocular carina? are feebly sinuous before the eyes ; the 

 thorax, marginal stria complete, punctuation somewhat 

 similar to that of the head, but rather more dense in the 

 regions of the anterior angles and less dense on the disk ; 

 the elytra, striae, subhumeral internal broken in the middle, 

 posterior part short, anterior part oblique, external wanting, 

 first dorsal shortened before the apical margin, incurved at 

 both ends, second and third incurved at the base and posteriorly 

 scarcely reaching beyond the middle, fourth very similar to the 

 third but arched at the base and joined to the sutural, which is 

 complete, all the dorsal stri^ are rather strong, the punctuation 

 is similar to that of the thorax and is confined to the region 

 between the fourth and sutural strise and to the apical area 

 behind the second, third, and fourth strise; on the propy- 

 gidium and pygidium the punctures are closer but similar; the 

 presternum triangularly widens out behind the coxas and is 

 bistriate, strise do not touch the base, but join anteriorly, in 

 front of the coxae they run close and parallel to each other 

 along a very narrow keel ; the anterior tibiae are somewhat 

 dilated and are 7-denticulate. 



This species is not much like any previously described, but 

 it belongs to Marseul's section of Saprinus with " un seul 

 chevron sur le front." The prosternal strise before the coxse 

 are much nearer together than those of H. rugifrons, Payk. 



Hah. Frere (Natal) ; taken in carrion by Mr. Guy A. K. 

 Marshall (no. 1447). 



