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rather deeply impressed. Oblique humeral faintly impressed; 

 surface extremely finely and sparsely punctate, punctures more 

 visible at sides. Propygidium moderately coarsely punctate at 

 base, punctures sparsely placed, at apex almost smooth ; pygidium 

 with a few fine punctures intermixed with some larger ones at 

 base. Prostemal lobe rounded at apex with an entire marginal 

 line. Mesosternum emarginate; marginal line entire. Anterior 

 tibiae tridentate, apical tooth large and bifid. Length 7.25 mm. 



Dayton (type) and St. Augustine, Fla., collected in Novem- 

 ber by G. P. Engelhardt. 



In Dr. Horn's table of the group depurator, this species 

 would have to be placed near indistinctus and servus. From both 

 it differs in much larger size, the short basal subhumeral and 

 long sutural striae of elytra and the absence of lateral striae of 

 prosternvim. 



GROUP SERVUS. 



This group was erected by Dr. Horn for those species which 

 have the prosternum laterally striate, the anterior tibiae tri- 

 dentate and the mesosternum feebly emarginate, including in 

 this group three species to which a fourth is added below. 

 Hister fungicola sp. n. 



Oval, black, shining. Head with a few fine punctures, 

 frontal stria entire. Prothorax bistriate; outer stria short apical, 

 inner slightly sinuate; surface smooth, impunctate. Elytra 

 with three entire striae, fourth very short basal, sutural abbrevi- 

 ated at base and apex; subhumeral absent. Propygidium coarsely 

 and sparsely punctate; punctures finer at middle near apex. 

 Pygidium very finely and sparsely punctate. Prosternum later- 

 ally striate; striae convergent at apex. Mesostemiim subtrun- 

 cate; marginal stria entire. Anterior tibiae tridentate. Length 

 4 mm. Jamesburg, N. J. 



A small number of specimens collected by Mr. Wm. T. Davis, 

 on mushrooms, differ from the description of dejectus in having 

 only three entire striae, the fourth very short basal, and represent 

 possibly only a variety of defecttis. 



