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is now given in the list below. The most interesting species in the 
collection is a Phelister and its discovery in Bengal has added not 
only a new species but also a new genus to the Indian-fauna. There 
are at present about 80 species of PAelister described and of these 
more than 70 come to us from the American Continents and the 
islands adjacent to them. And beyond this the indian species 2. 
Cardoni is of special interest in as much as the prosternum is 
distinetly incised for the reception of the acumination of the mesos- 
ternum, the latter being similar to that seen in a species of 
Pachycrærus 
Phelister Cardoni n. sp. 
Ovalis, convexiusculus, niger nilidus; capile lhoraceque dense 
punctatis; elytris striis 1-4 el suturali integris, 5° abbreviata ; 
pygidio propygidioque punctalis; prosterno bistrialo; mesostrino 
Lævi stria integra. — Long. 2 1/2 mill. 
Oval, convex, black, shining. Head feebly convex, closely punc- 
tate, striate above the eyes; thorax somewhat coarsely and thickly 
punctate, lateral stria feeble and indistinctly visible behind the head; 
elytra impunctate, striæ 1-3 complete, the 3° slightly turning 
away from the 2* towards the base, the 4! and sutural are also 
complete and almost unite in a loop at the base, the 5° is apical 
and occupies more (or less sometimes) than half the length of the 
wing-case, the apical margins of the elÿytra are sometimes reddish. 
The pygidium and propygidium are punctured like the thorax. The 
prosterum has lateral striæ which join anteriorly, the intervening 
surface being smooth or obscurely punctured; the mesosterum is 
transverse, acuminate anteriorly, stria complete in front with a 
crenate stria at the base; the first segment of the abdomen is 
punctate at the base. All the tibiæ are 5 or G-spinose. 
This species is about the size and outline of P. cumanensis Mars., 
but the closely punctate head and thorax distinguishes it from any 
other described PAelister. The mesosterum is, as stated, produced 
in front in as marked a degree as in a species of Pachycrærus. 
The list is as follows : 
Platysoma restoratum Walker, 1858 Hister myrmidon Mars. 
(Dokrni Mars., 1864). — bipustulatus Fab. 
— Confucii Mars. — bimaculatus Linn. 
Cypturus ænescens Krichs. Paromalus biarculus Mars. 
Phelister Cardoni n. sp. — 2 species in 2 specimens Q. 
Histler orientalis Payk. Saprinus quadriguttatus Fab. 
— encaustus Mars. — seulplurifer Mars. 
— hullatus Erichs. — clegantulus Mars. 
— coelestis Mars., 1857 (femoralis — sp. 
Mots., 1863). — Sp. 
