342 Mr, G. Lewis on 



Epiglyptus, gen. no v. 



Body more or less oblong, somewhat convex, black and 

 opaque, sculptured above ; head retractile, mandibles canalicu- 

 late ; club of the antenna circular in outline, labrum trans- 

 verse and carinate in tlic middle of the anterior half; thorax 

 transverse; antennal fossettes oj)en, well defined, atid circular; 

 elytra carinate ; propygidium margiiialc laterally, carinate in 

 the middle ; prosternum, keel distinctly marginate ; meso- 

 sternum widely sinuous and marginal stria complete. 



I iiave founded this genus for the reception of Ulster 

 costatus, Mars. ; the characters given above show how widely 

 it ditTers from Ilister unicolor, L. (the type of the genus 

 Uister), with which it has hitlierto been associated. Marseul 

 apparently only knew the female of Ilister costatuSj of which 

 lie gave an excellent figure in his monograph. The male has 

 a densely punctate thoracic disk, which in some specimens 

 extends nearly to the lateral carina, and the anterior portion of 

 the metasternura has two lobe-shaped depressions. 



Hister fractistrius, sp. n. 



Ovalis, convex iusculus, niger, nitidus ; stria frontali semicirculari ; 

 pronoto stria laterali interna uiiica Integra ; elylris striis con- 

 spiciie crenatis, subhuraerali valde impressa basi abbreviata, 1-3 

 integris, 4 vix abbreviata appendice arcuata, o-Q dimidiatis ; 

 propj'gidio pygidioque vix dense puuctatis ; prosterno inter coxas 

 bistriato ; mesosterno leviter sinuate, stria marginali Integra; 

 tibiis anticis 6-7-spinosis. 



L. 5|-6 miU. 



This species was formerly assigned to //. indicus, Lew. 

 (Ann. Mus. Genova, xii. p. 26, LS88), but it is larger and 

 less convex and the dorsal stri^ are more conspicuously 

 crenulate. The note (I. c. p. 26) refers to this species and 

 states that " a long series of specimens shows that tiie rudi- 

 ment of a stria at the base of the elytra belongs to the fourth 

 stria, not to the filth.'^ In several specimens the rudiment 

 is attached to the fourth stria on one side, while on the other 

 the stria is detached. This shows to wiiich stria the rudi- 

 ment belongs; Marseul, in relation to //. navus (Mon. p. 541), 

 considered it part of tlie fifth stria. The species which belong 

 to this group are //. mulddens, ScJi., navus and stercoriqet-y 

 Mars., gentilis, stenocejohalus^ sinuaticollis, frayosus, indicus, 

 occide7italis, niponicus, impi(jer, fractistrius^ and sodalis. Lew., 

 all havine^ the detached appendage. 



Ilah. Ciirin Cheba, Burma {L. Fea, 5th December, 1888). 

 Many examples. 



