THE AXXAf.S 



AND 



MAGAZINE OF iNATIJRAL UISTORL 



[SEVENTH SERIES.] 

 No. 100. APRIL 1906. 



XLIV. — On new Species of Histeridie and Xotices of others. 

 By G.Lewis, F.L.S. 



This is the twenty-seventh paper on the HisteriJpe in this 

 Magazine, and in the series, beginnini^ in ISS-i, about 470 

 species have been described. 



List of Species. 



ITololcpta sternalis. Contipus immar<?inatu3, 



Pliesius berifralensis, Santalus, geu. nov. 



niptistriiis. Epifj^lyptiis, gen. nov. 



Apobletes luarginicoUis, Leto, Hister fractistrius. 



runensis. sodalis. 



Liopygus punctatus. Spilodiscus, gen. nov. 



Platy3oma sibiricura, Reitt. ISotolister uodicornis. 

 Contipus cblongus. 



IJololepta sternalis, sp. n. 



Oblonga, subconvexa, nigra, nitida ; fronte baud striata : elytris 

 striis 1-2 brevibiis cum appendicibus apical ibus ; prosterno antico 

 tuberculato ; tibiis anti'is obtuse dentatis. 



L, 1 1 mill, (absque mandibulis). 



Oblong, somewhat convex, bhick and shining ; the head 

 rather flat on the vertex and without frontal stria?, the man- 

 dibles arc long, with impressions on the upper surfaces, the 

 mentum is deeply and evenly excavated and has no carina ; 



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