810 ^Ir. G. Lewis <?;? 



hroailer, the breadth being most marked in tlie mesosternura. 

 It differs also by the frontal stria being- interrupted on either 

 side. A. e.rpansis, Murs., from Ansus I., is another similar 

 species, but it also has an entire frontal stria. 



Hab. Run Island, Geelvink Bay. Many examples. 



Liopygus punctatus, sp. n. 



Oblongo-ovatus, niger, nitidus, supra impunctatus ; fronte stria 

 iutepra, recta, leviter imjircssa ; pronoto stria marginali antice 

 interrupta, postice ad angulos contiuuata ; elytris striis sub- 

 hnmerali Integra, 1-2 dorsalibus integris, 3 in medio interrupta, 

 4 apicali brevissima ; propygidio transversim grosse punctato ; 

 pvgidio bifoveato, fovepe grosse punctatoe ; mesosterao sinuato, 

 marginato ; tibiis anticis 4-dentatis. 



L. 3^ mill. 



From the otlier known species of Liopygxis this species 

 differs by tiie lateral thoracic stria being rather tine and 

 continued well round the basal angle, by the fovete in the 

 })ygidium being conspicuously punctate, and by the fine 

 mesosternal marginal stria. 



Hab. Island of Lombok {Fruhstorfer^. 



Plutijsoma sihiricum^ Eeitter, Deutsche e. Zeitschr. xxiii. 

 p. 21 i (1879). 



In the Catalogue of 190.5 I followed Schmidt (Berl. e. 

 Zeitschr. xxix, p. 326, 1885) in considering this species to be 

 P. deplanatutn, Gyii. ; but 1 have nou' a large number of 

 specimens, and they all agree in being more oval in outline 

 and in having four complete dorsal strige. It is a distinct 

 species, and having lately been found at Sapporo, its name 

 must be added to the faunistic list of Japan. 



Contipus oblonguSj sp. n. 



Oblongus, parum convexus, niger, nitidus ; mandibulis dentatis 

 externis et internis marginatis ; fronte stria valida, recta ; pro- 

 noto ciliato, stria interna flexuosa, basi ad angulos riigosa ; elytris 

 striis 1-3 integris, 4 dimidiata, cieteris nullis ; jiropygidio (in 

 medio excepto) pygidioque dense punctatis ; prosteruo inter coxas 

 bistriato ; mesoslerno emarginato, stria iutegra. 



L. 8| mill. 



This species differs by its oblong form from C. Jiexiiosus, 

 Sch., and C. immarginatus, Lew., the other species known 

 with a flexuous thoracic stria, and it may be also distinguished 

 from either of these by the mandibles being marginate inter- 



