200 STICHOLOTIS. 



Lotis. 



Muls. Spec. p. 503 (typ. neglecta). 



Abdominal plates terminal, incomplete. Thorax finely mar- 

 gined. 



Lotis neglecta. 

 Lotis neglecta, Muls. Spec. p. 504. 1 (T). 



Cape of Good Hope. Cafiraria. Punctuation fine, obsolete, 

 stronger towards the margin of the elytra. 



Lotis guttuia.* 



Lotis guttuia, Muls. Spec. p. 504. 2 (T). 



Caffraria (Stockholm, Fry). Punctuation extremely fine and 

 obsolete. Varies in size; Mr Fry's example is nearly 1 line in 

 length. 



Lotis nigritula.* 



Lotis nigritula, Boh. JLSS. 



Closely allied to L. guttuia but entirely black, punctuation 

 extremely obsolete; more convex. L. t lin. Cape of Good Hope 

 (Stockholm). 



Sticholotis. 



Gen. nov. (typ. Bubstriata). 

 This genus (of which the only species known to Mulsant 

 was placed in Lotis) appears to be most distinct. Form orbicular, 

 glabrous, thorax margined ;lt the base, epipleurse foveolate for the 

 antenna^, which reach almost to the base of the thorax. Clypeua 

 produced beyond the level of the eyes, quadrate, gently emar- 

 ginate in front. Maxillary palpi tolerably long, last joint conical 

 rather than securiform ; eyes coarsely granulated. Abdominal 

 plates terminal, incomplete externally. Epipleurse of the elytra 

 impressed, not foveolate, continuous to the apex. Coxa? (especially 

 the posterior pair) widely distant, metasternum foveolate. The 

 coarsely granulated eyes and hardly foveolated epipleurse indicate 

 an affinity with Bhizobius, but the whole form is exactly that 

 of the Chilocorides, and the 2 external strife are often indicated 

 in this family. The curious dorsal stria' found in two of the 

 species occur also in Cryptolcemus and in several of the Scymni. 



Sticholotis substriatus, sp. n. 



Orbicular, hemispherical, coarsely and uniformly punctate 

 throughout, glabrous, red variegated with Mark; thorax with the 

 base black in the mid. He. narrowed in front, sides straight ; elytra 

 each with 2 dorsal rows of punctures curved outwards (the 



punctures in the 1st continent), also with traces of a third row; 

 the space between the 1st and the suture is impunciale ; parallel 

 to the strongly roflexed margin are indications of 2 other similar 



