268 Mr. G. Lewis on 



smooth ; the presternum is not very wide between the coxae, 

 but at the base it widens out considerably and is somewhat 

 triangular (in this character it agrees with H. striatidera, 

 Mars.); the mesosternum has a short curved sulcus at each 

 anterior angle ; the anterior tibia? are 4-dentate, the two apical 

 teeth are robust and near together. 



Hab. S. Thomas I , Gulf of Guinea {Mocquerys). 



Apobletes parallelus, sp. n. 



Oblongus, planatus, parallelus, brunneus,nitidus ; fronte punctulata, 

 stria transversa utrinque interrupts ; pronoto, stria marginali 

 antice late interrupta ; elytris striis 1-2 integris, 3 late inter- 

 rupts, humerali externa completa, interna in medio separata ; 

 prosterno lobo antico immarginato. 



L. 3| mill. 



Oblong, flat, parallel at the sides, brown and shining ; the 

 head slightly impressed anteriorly, punctulate, also the epi- 

 stoma, striate over the eyes, transverse stria rather wide and 

 shallow and confined to the frontal impression ; the thorax, 

 lateral stria continues round the anterior angle to a point 

 behind the eye and it is equally strong there as at the sides, 

 at the base on either side opposite the second dorsal stria is a 

 shallow, somewhat transverse fovea, in lieu of a scutellar 

 fovea there is a minute tubercle, along the thoracic border, 

 but well away from the edge, is a longitudinal cluster of 

 punctures ; the elytra, stria?, outer humeral complete, inner 

 humeial separated in the middle, each part extending to a 

 point transversely opposite to each other, oblique basal rather 

 long and very fine, dorsal 1-2 complete, 3 widely interrupted 

 in the middle, the apical edge is narrowly rugosely punctured ; 

 the propygidium is punctured throughout, in the centre and 

 along the posterior edge the punctures are fine, but otherwise 

 the punctures are shallow, irregular, and imbricate, in no part 

 are they dense ; the pygidium is flat, surface more densely 

 punctate than the propygidium, and the punctures appear 

 ocellate under the microscope ; the presternum, anterior lobe 

 immarginate anteriorly, but behind the middle it is striate on 

 either side, the surface of it and the keel is finely punctulate ; 

 the mesosternum is very distinctly bisinuous, so that the 

 middle of the anterior edge is slightly acuminate, on either 

 side is a curved marginal sulcus, but there is no marginal 

 stiia; the anterior tibia? are 3-4-dentate. 



This species is more parallel than any other known species 

 and its specific characters generally do not correspond with 

 any other. 



Hal. ^uuatra. 



