484: On new Species of Histeridse. 



smootli ; mesosternum deeply emarginate in front and 

 surrounded by a fine stria; front tibise 2-toothed. 



" L. I line. 



" Hah. North Carolina." 



Horn, in his ' Synopsis,' 1873, p. 308, says the pygidia 

 are punctulate. 



Echinodes decipiens, Horn, Tr. Amer. Ent. Soc. x. p. 286 

 (1883). 



" Broadly oval, piceous, brown, moderately shining. 

 Head smooth, obtusely carinate at middle, deeply impressed 

 on each side. Thorax shining, surface with sparsely placed, 

 slightly muricate punctures, each bearing a short erect hair. 

 P^lytra with a marginal and three vaguely impressed entire 

 striaj at the side, each with a single row of coarse and closely 

 placed ]nmctures bearing a short erect hair ; between these 

 striae and the suture are four series of punctures rather irregu- 

 larly placed, bearing setse, the sutural row the most distinct. 

 Propygidium and pygidium shining, sparsely punctate. Body 

 beneath shining, smooth. Presternum bicarinate, the caringe 

 divergent posteriorly. L. '06 inch ; 1'5 millim. 



" The species resembles E. setiger, Lee, and is but a little 

 longer. It differs in the elytral sculpture. The present 

 species has the outer striae more impressed, the inner rows of 

 punctures single, while in setiger the outer striae are less 

 impressed and the inner rows composed of two or more series 

 of punctures. 



" Collected by H. K. Morrison in Arizona." 



Saprinus ovillum, Sols. Reis. Fedsch. Turkestan, ii. p. 240 

 (1876). 



" ObloDgo-ovatus, convexus, piceo-niger, supra nigro-aeneus,nitidus, 

 antennis pedibusque piceis, Fronte crebre puuctata, antice obso- 

 lete transversim carinata, stria nulla. Pronoto transverse, basi 

 leviter rotundato, vix bisinuato, lateribus rotundato, antrorsum 

 angustato, convexo, disco basin versus subtiliter et minus crebre, 

 ceterum crebre, minus subtiliter punctato; stria margin ali Integra. 

 Elytris apice ad suturam subtiliter disperse punctatis, stria 

 suturali Integra, antice cum quarta dorsali arcuatim conjuncta, 

 dorsalibus paulo pone medium abbreviatis, 1 et 2 subbrevioribus, 

 subbumerali interna cum humerali conjuncta, postice abbreviata, 

 externa nulla. Pj-gidio crebre punctato. Prosterno striis 

 parallelis, apice contiuentibus. Tibiis anticis 5-dentati8, dentibus 

 tribus ultimis fortibus. 



" L. 2| mill." 



Ilah. " In Valle Sarafschan." 



