new Species q/" Histeridse. 139 



angles, but not produced, the fovea of J" is nearly circular ; 

 the elytra, striae, subhumeral well-marked and shortened 

 before and behind, first dorsal shortened well before tlie 

 middle with a very short and straight apical appendage ; 

 the propygidium is clearly but sparsely punctured at the 

 sides ; the pygidium is somewhat narrowed at the angles on 

 either side, punctures generally are close but not coarse, but 

 those at the apex are much finer. 



//. dux is similar in size to H. dilatata, Sch., but it differs 

 in being more depressed and in outline more oblong ; the 

 thorax is not produced at the anterior angles, the apical 

 appendage to the first elytral stria is straight, not crescent- 

 shaped, and the pygidium is narrowed on either side at the 

 base and is less coarsely punctured, with finer points on the 

 apex. I have not seen a female. 



Hah. Adamaua, Kamerun. 



Lioderma intersectumy sp. n. 



Oblongum, subdepressum, nigrum, subnitidum ; fronte baud striata ; 

 pronoto stria marginali nulla ; elytris margine inflexo leevi, striis 

 1 brevi, 2 valida Integra ; propygidio circum grosse punctate ; 

 pygidio dense et fortiter punctato, 



L. 9-11 mill, (absque mandibulis). 



This species and L. cerdo, Mars., are very similar, but 

 L. iniersectum differs in the (^ having the fossettes in the 

 thoracic angles intersected in the middle. In the angles there 

 is a deep bent fossa and behind it a large nearly circular fovea. 

 In L. cerdo the fossette is unbroken (see fig. 4, Mon. 1853). 

 Both species are remarkable for the large size of the punctures 

 in the propygidium. 



Hab. Marcopata, Peru. 



I give here for reference Mr. BlaisdelFs notes on two 

 American Histerids in the ' Zoe/ iii. pp. 337, 338 (1892), a 

 publication now discontinued. Both species, although noticed 

 in the ' Zoological Record,^ must be considered unpublished 

 until something further is recorded about them. 



" Hololepta pervalidaj sp. n. 



" Form strongly [sic'] oblong, narrower and much less 

 depressed than yucateca [Lioderma] j sides parallel. Men- 

 tum nearly flat, strongly punctate laterally, rather sparsely 

 so at middle ; prosternum intermediate [? in width] between 

 the preceding species [L. grande, Mars.] and fossularis 



