1878.] 40 1 [LeConte. 
thorax, finely punctured, suture finely margined behind the middle. 
Length 0.8 mm.; .08 inch. 
Haulover and Enterprise; rare. Less broad than the other 
two species, and with the elytra more finely punctured. 
63. Saprinus dentipes Mars. Mon. Histeroid. (Ann. Ent. Soc. Fr. 
1855), 728; fig. 160. Convex-oval, bronzed. Head slightly rugose in 
front, marginal line deep with a badly impressed frontal chevron.- Prothorax 
punctured at the sides and front, smooth at the middle; base with a 
narrow band of aciculate punctures. Elytra with a large, posterior sub- 
quadrate punctured space, extending from the sutural stria to the 3d 
dorsal, and from the end of the 1st dorsal to the apical margin ; 1st and 
2d dorsal a little longer than the 3d and 4th; the last named connected 
with the sutural, which is entire. Front tibie with 3 large and 3 small 
teeth ; hind tibie with spines arranged in two rows ; mesosternum smooth 
with the marginal line curved in front. Prosternum not compressed, strise 
approximate, abbreviate in front, divergent behind. Length 3.9 mm., .195 
inch. 
Southern Florida; Dr. Palmer, two specimens. This and 
the next two species belong to my group VIII,* but it differs 
from those mentioned by Dr. Horn in having the punctured. 
space of elytra limited in front by a transverse outline. The 
humeral stria, as usual,is long and fine, the external sub- 
humeral wanting, the internal short, disconnected. 
This species has been previously known only from Mexico, 
and is perhaps only a variety of the next. 
64. Saprinus braziliensis Mars. Mon. Hist. (Ann. Ent. Soc. Fr. 
1855), 726, fig. 159; Hister braz. Payk. Mon. Hist. 66, pl. 6, fig. 2. 
Southern Florida; one specimen, Dr. Palmer. This species 
only differs from the preceding by the punctures of the elytra 
being more densely placed, and extending nearly to the base 
between the 1st and 4th dorsal strie; a smooth, rounded 
mirror 1s thus left. 
65. Saprimus permixtus, n. sp.—Convex.oval, bronzed. Head 
slightly rugose in front, marginal line deep, with a badly impressed frontal 
chevron. Prothorax punctured at the sides and front, smooth at the middle, 
base with a narrow band of aciculate punctures. Elytra punctured, with 
the sides and a large basal mirror smooth, punctures extending to the base 
between the Ist and 2d dorsal strive ; 1st dorsal longer than the others, ex- 
tending farther behind than the inner marginal, which is connected with 
the elongate fine humeral; 2d, 3d and 4th strie nearly equal, one-half the 
* Vide Horn. Proc. Am. Phil. Soc. 1873, 342. 
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