150 On new Species o/'IIisteridEe. 



metasternum is also similar! j punctured with a slight median 

 depression ; the anterior and intermediate tibiae are strongly 

 angulate on the outer edge, and the first have three tubercles 

 or dentations on the outside edge of the tarsal groove, the 

 posterior tibite are falciform. 



L. 5i mill. 



Ilab. Brazil (Minas). Sertao de Diamantina (E". GounelUj 

 November 1902). 



Saprinus dichrous, sp. n. 



Ovalis, niger, nitidus, convexiusculus ; fronte hand striata ; pro- 

 iioto filiate, lateribus rugoso-puuctatis ; clytris macula media 

 transversa flava, striis 4 saturalique arcu basali coeunte; tibiis 

 anticis dilatatis, 8-9-spiiiosis. 



L. 3i mill. 



Oval, black and shining ; the head densely punctured and 

 somewhat rugose, without a frontal stria ; the thorax is 

 ciliate at the sides and laterally punctate like the head ; the 

 elytra have a yellow median band which projects towards the 

 base at the first stria and is divided in the middle by a dark 

 suture, surface rather evenly and closely punctured from the 

 middle to the apical portion, the stria3 1-2 are nearly dimidiate 

 and equal in length, 3 basal oblique and very short, 4 dimi- 

 diate and joined to the sutural at tiie base, sutural complete ; 

 the pygidia are densely punctured. 



Differs chiefly from S. crenati'pes, Sol., in the elytral band 

 nearly meeting in the middle, the dorsal punctuation is more 

 spread, and the fourth and sutural stria? are united. The 

 ])rosternal keel is very narrow before the coxte, and the striae 

 diverge at the sides and at an angle before the coxce join a 

 lateral carina. 



Ilab. Puerto, S. America. 



Saprinus Jlavopict us J sp. n. 



Niger, a^neiis, nitidus ; fronte dense rugoso-punctata ; pronoto 

 ciliato, in medio nitido, laevi, lateribus late et densissime rugoso- 

 punctatis ; elytris basi rugosis, macula flava, stria suturali in- 

 tegra, striis casteris obsoletis ; pvgidio dense punctato. 



L. 3-3i mill. 



Similar to S. decoraius, Er., but the head is more 

 densely and more rugosely punctured, the thoracic sculpture 

 is more dense and much more conspicuous, and the dark 

 portion of the elytra is narrow and sutural only behind the 

 middle of the dorsum : in other respects the pattern is 

 similar to that of decoratus. The piosternal keel is also 



