new Species of Histeridee. 419 
feeble median canaliculation; the antennae has a distinctly 
oval club; the pygidium is doubled under the propygidium, 
and the fourth and fifth abdominal segments are scooped out 
to receive it; the tarsi are all distinctly hirsute. 
This genus is established on the characters of Phylloma 
hirtipes, Lew., of which the female is unknown to me. 
KUTIDIUM, gen. nov. 
Body oval, somewhat convex; mandibles short and robust, 
arched on the outer edge, dentate within, extremities acute ; 
mentum nearly quadrate, incised anteriorly; prosternal keel 
narrowed before the coxe. The other characters resemble 
those of Phylloma. 
Type Phylloma facetum, Lew. 
EKutidium pacale, sp. n. 
Ovatum, convexiusculum, nigrum, nitidum ; fronte tenuiter punctu- 
lata; pronoto lateribus subtiliter punctulato; elytris striis 1-2 
integris,.3 brevi; propygidio parce punctato, apice biimpresso ; 
pygidio dense punctato, apice anguste levi; pronoto mesosterno- 
que tenuiter punctulatis. 
L. 5 mill. 
This species differs from H. facetum, Lew., in the thorax 
being narrower anteriorly and the general outline being 
therefore more distinctly oval, in the second dorsal stria being 
complete, in the propygidium being punctate on its disk, and 
the pygidium being only very indistinctly marginate at the 
base. From 4. bahiense, Mars., it differs also in form, 
thoracic punctuation, and dorsal striew. The form of the 
pygidium of E. facetum, Lew., is shown in tab. iv. fiz. 17 a, 
Biol. Cent.-Amer., Col. vol. ii. pt. 1 (1888). 
flab. Marco da legua Para (4. Gounelle, 1895). 
ORPHINIUM, gen. nov. 
Body oblong-ovate, somewhat convex above; mandibles 
elongate, sometimes dentate, sometimes swollen and asym- 
metrical on the inner edge; mentum transverse, not very 
narrow, with two lobe-shaped excavations in male; head not 
excavated. Similar in other characters to Hololepta. The 
form of the mentum seems to suggest an affinity to Oxysternus, 
see Marseul’s Mon. p. 196 (1853). 
The species to be included in this genus are: Phylloma 
labrosum, tuberculatum, eautum, and angulare, Lew., and 
oblitum, mandibulare, monodon, and MJaragnont, Mars. 
