new Species 0/ Histeridse. 271 



transversa utrinque interrupta : pronoto lateribus inconspicue 

 punctulato, stria iiito^ra ; clytris striis 1-3 integris, 4-5 api- 

 calibus : propygidio transversim punctato ; prostcrno baud striate ; 

 mesosterno lato, distincte marginato ; tibiis anticis 4-5-dentatis. 

 L. 3 miU. 



Oval, depressed, pitchy brown and shining- ; tlie head 

 punctulate, but not closely, slij^Iitly impressed behind the 

 transverse stria, which is straight with the ends on either side 

 turned backwards, and it is not connected with the lateral 

 strife, which are bent and do not extend beyond the eye ; the 

 thorax, surface microscopically ]ninctured, punctures more 

 visible along the lateral borders, marginal stria strong later- 

 ally and continued behind the head, the stria leaves the 

 margin at the angle, cutting off a triangular space, it then 



f)asses along the margin until it passes the eye, when it again 

 eaves the margin and behind the neck leaves a fairly wide 

 border between it and the edge, there is no scutellar fovea. 

 The elytra, there are no humeral strise except the oblique 

 basal, which is very fine, dorsal stria?, 1 a little abbreviated 

 at the apex, 2 complete and turning a little away from the 

 first at the base, 3 complete but extremely fine at the base, 

 the interstice between it and the second is of the same width 

 throughout, •! apical and one third of the elytral length, 5 

 shorter with a wider interstice, sutural wanting. The pro- 

 pygidium has rather large shallow punctures ; the pygidium 

 rather deeply bifoveolate and smooth ; the presternum, the 

 anterior lobe is broad, with a marginal stria, which is, however, 

 interrupted at the suture before the keel, keel without stria? ; 

 the mesosternum is wide, very feebly sinuous anteriorly, and 

 clearly marginate; the metasternum has a shallow median 

 furrow ; the anteiior tibia? are 4-5-dentate. 



This species is somewhat similar to L. Gestroi, Lew., but 

 the latter is less oval, the thorax more distinctly punctured 

 laterally, the apical margin of the elytra narrowly punctulate, 

 the second dorsal stria widens out at the base from tiie first 

 in a similar manner, and the second and third are similarly 

 parallel to each other, but the two apical stria? are siiorter and 

 the fifth is more distant from the suture. In L. chalet's the 

 foveje in the pygidium are nearly round, in L. Gestroi they 

 are transverse. 



Hah. Sipora, Mentawei Islands, Sereinu, 5th June, 1894 

 {Mvdigliani). Two exann)les, and I have a third labelled 

 "Perak" by Herr J. Schmidt. 



Platylister cothayi, sp. n. 

 Oblongo-ovatus, subdeprossus, niger, nitidus ; fronte iinprtssa, slriS 



