﻿Mr. 
  G. 
  Lewis 
  on 
  new 
  Species 
  of 
  Histeridse. 
  281. 
  

  

  transversa 
  valida 
  ; 
  pronoto 
  stria 
  integra 
  lateraliter 
  valida, 
  post 
  

   oeulos 
  leviter 
  impressa, 
  margine 
  lato 
  ; 
  elytris 
  striis 
  l 
  a 
  integra, 
  2 
  a 
  

   basi 
  abbreviata, 
  3 
  a 
  postice 
  late 
  interrupta, 
  4 
  a 
  -5 
  a 
  apicalibus, 
  sutu- 
  

   rali 
  nulla 
  ; 
  propygidio 
  utrinque 
  late 
  impresso, 
  medio 
  loagitudin- 
  

   aliter 
  anguste 
  elevato 
  ; 
  pygidio 
  convexo, 
  impunctato, 
  basi 
  utrinque 
  

   profunde 
  excavato 
  ; 
  prostorno 
  basi 
  subimpresso, 
  hand 
  striato, 
  parce 
  

   et 
  tenuissime 
  punetulato 
  ; 
  mesosterno 
  stria 
  marginali 
  arcuatirn 
  

   integra 
  ; 
  tibiis 
  anticis 
  4-5-dentatis. 
  

   Long. 
  4 
  millim. 
  

  

  This 
  species 
  has 
  something 
  of 
  the 
  facies 
  and 
  is 
  of 
  the 
  size 
  of 
  

   Hister 
  ruficornis, 
  Grimm, 
  and 
  is 
  therefore 
  longer 
  and 
  more 
  

   convex 
  than 
  its 
  near 
  allies 
  Phelister 
  lunaticus 
  and 
  celebius, 
  

   Mars. 
  The 
  fossettes 
  in 
  the 
  pygidium 
  are 
  very 
  large 
  and 
  

   round, 
  after 
  the 
  manner 
  of 
  those 
  in 
  Apobletes 
  diopsipygus, 
  

   Mars., 
  and 
  the 
  space 
  between 
  them 
  and 
  the 
  apex 
  of 
  the 
  seg- 
  

   ment 
  is 
  smooth. 
  

  

  Bab. 
  Borneo 
  (Doherty). 
  

  

  Note. 
  — 
  I 
  have 
  placed 
  a 
  remarkable 
  Histerid 
  in 
  Epierus, 
  

   viz. 
  Epierus 
  rufulus, 
  Lewis 
  (Biol. 
  Centr.-Amer., 
  Ooleopt. 
  

   vol. 
  ii. 
  pt. 
  1, 
  p. 
  208), 
  because, 
  although 
  it 
  has 
  the 
  facies 
  of 
  a 
  

   Phelister, 
  except 
  perhaps 
  in 
  the 
  forehead, 
  the 
  mesostei-num 
  

   is 
  emarginate 
  anteriorly, 
  and 
  MarseuFs 
  definition 
  of 
  Phelister 
  

   is 
  that 
  the 
  mesosternum 
  is 
  " 
  bisinue 
  en 
  devant, 
  avec 
  une 
  

   petite 
  pointe 
  me'diane 
  qui 
  repond 
  a 
  l'echancrure 
  de 
  la 
  base 
  du 
  

   presternum." 
  In 
  Phelister, 
  Pachycrcerus, 
  Trypanceus, 
  and 
  

   allies 
  the 
  projecting 
  mesosternum 
  is 
  a 
  valid 
  and 
  salient 
  cha- 
  

   racter, 
  and 
  I 
  think 
  it 
  cannot 
  be 
  desirable 
  to 
  associate 
  species 
  

   together 
  which 
  differ 
  so 
  essentially 
  in 
  this 
  respect 
  as 
  Epierus 
  

   rufulus 
  } 
  Lewis, 
  and 
  Phelister 
  venustus, 
  Mars. 
  

  

  Pachycrcerus 
  modestus, 
  n. 
  sp. 
  

  

  Oblongo-ovatus, 
  subconvexus, 
  nigro-piceus 
  ; 
  anteunis 
  pedibusque 
  

   rufis 
  ; 
  fronte 
  impressa, 
  stria 
  valida 
  integra 
  ; 
  pronoto 
  sat 
  fortiter 
  

   punctato, 
  stria 
  post 
  oeulos 
  late 
  interrupta 
  ; 
  elytris 
  apicibus 
  punc- 
  

   tatis, 
  striis 
  l 
  a 
  -3 
  m 
  dorsalibus 
  integris, 
  4 
  a 
  interrupta, 
  5 
  a 
  et 
  suturali 
  

   abbreviatis 
  ; 
  propygidio 
  pygidioque 
  punctatis 
  ; 
  prosterno 
  bistriato, 
  

   striis 
  parallelis 
  ; 
  mesosterno 
  margin 
  ato, 
  stria 
  integra 
  ; 
  tibiis 
  

   anticis 
  7-, 
  posticis 
  3-dentatis. 
  

  

  Long. 
  3^ 
  millim. 
  

  

  This 
  species 
  is 
  similar 
  to 
  P. 
  arabicus, 
  Lewis, 
  in 
  colour, 
  and 
  

   to 
  P. 
  Bocandei, 
  Mars., 
  in 
  size 
  and 
  form. 
  The 
  prosternal 
  strise 
  

   widen 
  out 
  at 
  the 
  base, 
  but 
  are 
  almost 
  parallel 
  beyond 
  the 
  

   coxse, 
  and 
  terminate 
  at 
  the 
  transverse 
  stria 
  which 
  divides 
  the 
  

   main 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  sternum 
  from 
  the 
  lobe. 
  

  

  Bab. 
  Zanzibar 
  {Raffray). 
  

  

  