new Species of Histeridse. 283 



rather obscure punctures represents the inner humeral, 1 and 



3 dorsal complete, the first turning inwards at the base, 2 and 



4 nearly complete, being- a very little shortened at the base, 5 

 nearly dimidiate and apical, sutural nearly twice the length of 

 the fourth ; the propygidium is impressed on either side, clearly 

 but not densely punctate; the pygidium, the punctures are 

 similar but are arranged chiefly along the base; the pro- 

 sternum, the anterior lobe at the apex is margined with a 

 stria, but the stria leaves the edge laterally and passes 

 obliquely down the sides ; the mesosternum is rather widely 

 emarginate and the marginal stria is complete ; the meta- 

 sternum is longitudinally sulcate in the middle ; the anterior 

 tibiae are 3-dentate. 



Hister bffronSj Mars., agrees with this species in the form 

 of the head, but in II. frontalis the thorax is not bisinuous, 

 there is a short stria at the angle, the outer subhumeral stria 

 is wanting, the pygidium is not so densely punctured, and 

 the mesosternum is emarginate not straight. 



Hab Khasia Hills, Assam. 



Stictostix parra, Mars. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xiii. p. 92 

 (1870). 



As there are now four species assigned to the genus Sticto- 

 stix from Australia and two from North America, I have 

 thought it desirable to give a figure of the type of the genus, 

 S. parra, Mars. (fig. 2). All the species are highly sculp- 

 tured, but nothing as yet has been recorded of their habits. 



Fig-. 2 



Notoccelis, gen. nov. 



Body oblong, gibbous in the dorsal region ; head retractile 

 and declivous, frontal stria carinate ; the thorax contracted at 

 the base, with the disk almost wholly excavated ; the elytra 



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