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318 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [July, ’o8 
New Coleoptera, with notes on some New Jersey 
Histeridae. 
By Cartes ScHAeFFER, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Several years ago in Lakehurst, New Jersey, I took a single 
specimen of a Hister which seemed to be undescribed, but as 
the specific characters used in separating species in the entire 
family are more or less subject to variation, I thought it inad- 
visable to describe a new species from a unique. Lately, how- 
ever, in going over some New Jersey material I noticed a num- 
ber of specimens collected by my friends, William T. Davis, 
in Lakehurst and Jamesburg, and Charles W. Leng, in James- 
burg and Brookville, which convinced me that the species is en- 
titled to a name and in order that the name sent to Prof. Smith 
to be included in his forthcoming new list of New Jersey in- 
sects be sanctioned by a description, the species is described 
below. 
In a recently purchased small miscellaneous lot of insects 
from the Santa Rita Mountains, Arizona, two species of Cole- 
optera were found to be undescribed and the present opportu- 
nity is taken to make these known. 
Hister davisi n. sp. 
Form and size of americanus. Outer thoracic stria absent, inner 
entire and slightly sinuate near base; surface of thorax very sparsely 
punctate near the striz, punctuation almost absent from the disk. 
Elytra with four entire discal strie; the fourth slightly abbreviated at 
base; fifth stria apical not quite reaching to the middle, sutural stria 
entire and strongly arcuate at base, not connected with the fourth; 
one distinct subhumeral stria, which does not quite extend to base; 
all the strie rather strongly impressed and finely punctate; surface 
almost impunctate. Epipleura bistriate, the inner stria finer and 
shorter than the outer, the latter rather coarsely punctate. Prosternum 
slightly flattened behind, on each side a short basal stria, which does 
not extend to the middle. Mesosternum truncate. Anterior tibie 
5-dentate, the two upper teeth small. Propygidium coarsely but 
sparsely punctate; pygidium not as coarsely punctate as propygidium. 
Length, 3.5 mm. 
New Jersey; Lakehurst (Davis, Schaeffer), Jamesburg 
(Davis, Leng), Brookville (Leng). August and September. 
