new Species of Histeridse. 27 



Trypeticus meridianus, sp. n. 



Oblongus, cylindricus, niger, nitidus, pedibiis rufo-brunneis ; fronte 

 triangulata, minutissime strigulosa ; rostro apice minute bituber- 

 culato ; pronoto antice arcuatim depresso ; propygidio pygidioque 

 utrinque bifoveolatis. 



L. ^ mill. 



? . Oblong, cylindrical, black, sliining, legs reddish brown ; 

 the head, face triangular and slightly concave, rostrum ratlier 

 short and terminating in two small tubercles, surface micro- 

 scopically transversely strigose, with some irregular punctures 

 on the vertex ; tlie thorax is of the same length as the elytra, 

 with an arcuate depression behind the neck, punctuation clear 

 and most dense anteriorly, without a scutellar fovea or punc- 

 ture, lateral marginal stria well-marked ; the elytra, punctua- 

 tion less close than that of the thorax ; the propygidium and 

 pygidium are punctured very similarly to the elytra, and botli 

 have a conspicuous fovea on either side at their bases ; the pro- 

 sternum is a little longer than broad, rectangular, with a mar- 

 ginal well-marked stria at the sides, and continuing in front but 

 not along the base, surface irregularly not densely punctured ; 

 the mesosternurn is truncate and immarginate anteriorly, 

 laterally behind the coxae is a shallow rather broad sulcus 

 with its outer edge raised and turned in anteriorly, surface 

 rather sparsely but evenly punctured ; the metasternum is 

 punctate like the mesosternum and has a fine median line. 

 In a second specimen the foveas in the pygidia are more 

 shallow and less conspicuous. 



This species is similar to T. Oestroi, Mars, (which is known 

 to me by description only), especially in the form of the head 

 and rostrum. In T. Gestroi the prosternal stri^ are continued 

 along the base and there are no fovese in the pygidia. The 

 male is unknown at present. 



Hab. Lombok, at an altitude of 2000 feet, in September 

 1896 {H. Fruhstorfer). 



Pygoccelis usamhicus^ Kolbe. 



Pygoccelis usambicus, Kolbe, Deutscb-Ost-Afrika, iv. Col. p. 104 (1897). 



I am also much indebted to Herr Kolbe for examples of 

 this species and for giving me a drawing (fig. 11), here repro- 

 duced, of his specimen. The surface of the pygidium is 

 wholly excavated in the male, leaving only a narrow rim as 

 a posterior margin ; in the female the surface of the pygidium 



