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ON SOME NEW HISTERID.E FEOM BURMAH. 

 BY G. LEWIS, F L.S. 



Mr. W. Doherty baa very kindly sent me from Calcutta some 

 HisteridcB collected by him at the Ruby Mines, Burmah, at an eleva- 

 tion of some 6 — 8000 feet above sea level, and I find amongst them 

 five species which are evidently new and needing descriptive notice. 

 There were also in the quill in which the whole came two species re- 

 presented by single specimens. The locality in which these species 

 were collected seems to be a very good one, as the captures are par- 

 ticularly interesting ; the large size of the Paromalus is surprising, 

 and one Platysoma is very fine. 



1. — Platysoma foveolatum, n. sp. 

 Ovatttm, nigrum, nitidum ; fronte, stria utrinque abhreviata ; pronoto, 

 ante scutellum distincte foveolato ; elytris tristriatis ; jpropygidio 2>ygidioque 

 grosse punctatis ; prosterno haud striata; mesosterno iceviter emarginato, 

 stria Integra distincte impressa. Long., 7 mm. 



Rather broadly oval, black, shining ; forehead with a rather shallow and broad 

 stria, bisinuate and shortened on either side, and not touching the outer margin in 

 front of the eye ; thorax with complete marginal stria, rather strong at the sides, 

 feeble in front, especially behind the eye, transvei-se, with a very distinct fovea in 

 front of the scutellum ; elytral striaj 1 — 3 complete, the 4th consists of one or two 

 points only at the apex ; propygidium is depressed on both sides, where it is strongly 

 punctate, in the middle the punctures are fewer ; pygidiura closely punctate, punc- 

 tures ocellated, external edges elevated ; the prosternura is not sculptured ; the 

 mesosternal stria is complete, leaving the anterior margin rather wide. Anterior 

 tibisD 4-dentate. 



This species belongs to the same group as atratum, Er., and 

 ovatmn, Er., but it is much broader than any species in the section, 

 and the scutellar fovea is very conspicuous. 



2. — Platysoma lucillum, n. sp. 

 Ohlongum, depressiusculum, brunncum nitidissimum ; fronte Iceviter im- 

 pressa ; pronoto impunctato stria valida intcgra ; elytris striis 1 — 4 intcgris 

 5« basi late abhreviata ; propygidio pygidioqtie grosse punctatis ; prosterno 

 haud striata ; mesa- et metastcrno Icevihus ; anfenms pedibitsque ritfis. 



Long., 2\ mtn. 

 Oblong, reddish-brown, shining ; forehead lightly impressed, not punctured, 

 stria well marked and nearly straight ; thorax smooth, with a complete stria, lateral 

 interstice rather narrow ; elytra 1 — 4 striiB complete, 5th much shortened before the 

 base, and it is quite parallel to the suture. The sutural stria is wanting, the inter- 

 stice between the suture and the fifth stria is a very little wider than the interstice 

 of the 4th and 5th strife ; the propygidium is wholly covered with large punctures 

 evenly set ; the pygidiura has punctures irregularly dispersed, most thickly set at 



