SAPEOSITES — EUPAEJA. 93 



1. Saprosites parallelus. 



Saprosites parallelus, Harold,, Col. Hefte, i. p. 81 \ 



Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). — South America, Colombia 1 . 



A large species with finely punctured head, coarsely crenate-striate elytra, and minute 

 accessory tooth between the middle and upper teeth of the anterior tibiae. 



2. Saprosites cossonoides. (Tab. VI. fig. 22.) 



Oblongo-linearis, depressus, niger, nitidus, capite antice pedibusque rufo-piceis ; capite minus convexo, fere toto 

 granulate et inter granula punctulato ; thorace subquadrato, lateribus leviter rotundatis, sat dense et 

 perspicue punctulato, punctis majoribus et minoribus intermixtis, basi immarginata ; elytris exarato-striatis; 

 striis punctulatis, interstitiis latis, usque ad apicem planis, prope apicem solum subtiliter punctulatis 

 tibiis 4 posterioribus extus breviter carinulatis, apice longe spinosis ; anticis dentibus tribus Eequaliter 

 distantibus. 



Long. 2-3| millim. 



Hab. Mexico, Cordova (Salle) ; Guatemala, San Juan in Vera Paz, Tamahu, San 

 Geronimo, Zapote (Champion) ; Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 



The apical ventral segments, as in the allied S. aspericeps, Har., are soldered together 

 and their sutures obliterated, with the suture of the apical segment laterally marked 

 with a deep fovea. 



EUPARIA. 



Eupuria, Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau and Serville, Encycl. Meth. x. p. 357 (1825) ; Harold, Col. 

 Hefte, vi. p. 19. 



A genus peculiar, so far as at present known, to America, and found in the temperate 

 zones North and South, as well as between the tropics. The expansion of the sides of 

 the thorax seems the chief, if not the only, character which distinguishes it from 

 Atamius. Eleven species have been described. 



rugoso ; tborace exacte quadrate, sat dense grosse punctato, punctis minoribus intermixtis, basi medio im- 

 marginata ; elytris late exarato-striatis, striis eleganter cancellato-punctatis, interstitiis quam stria? parum 

 latioribus, planis, prope apicem angustis subcarinatis ; tibiis 4 posterioribus brevibus, latis compressis extus 

 breviter carinatis, anticis dentibus aequaliter distantibus. 

 Long. 2k millim. 



Hab. Amazons, Ega ; under bark. 



Saprosites corticalis. 



Sublinearis, depressus, castaneo-rufus, glaber ; clypeo antice crebre granulato, fronte et vertice toto subcrebre 

 punctulatis : tborace latiore, quadrato, dorso planato, lateribus parallelis, sat crebre suba3qualiter punctato ; 

 elytris exarato-striatis, striis punctulatis, interstitiis planis, quam stria? duplo latioribus, apice paullo 

 convexioribus ; tibiis sicut in S. cancellato. 



Long. 3 millim. 



Hab. Amazons, Ega ; under bark. 



