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fere recta; pronoto stria integra ; elytris striis 1-3 integris, 

 4 valde abbreviata, 5 diinidiata, suturali brcvissima vel obsoleta ; 

 pygidio raargino anguste la3vi baud conspicue elevato. 

 L. 5-54 mill. 



Oblong-oval, ratber depressed, black and sbiiiing; tbe 

 bead impressed anteriorly, transverse stria feebly sinuous, 

 labrum transverse and narrow ; tbe tliorax widest at tbe base, 

 anterior angles moderately depressed, marginal stria com- 

 plete; tbe elytra, striai 1-3 complete, 4 apical, sbort, and 

 sometimes broken, 5 apical and dimidiate, sutural sbort, 

 mucb abbreviated apically, and not reacbing tbe middle of 

 the elytron ; tbe propygidium punctured, tbe punctures vary in 

 size and aie not closely set ; tbe pygidium, tbe punctures are 

 larger, nearly equal in size, and mucb more closely and 

 evenly set, tbe outer margin is smootb but scarcely elevated ; 

 tbe prosternum, anterior lobe striate, stria arclied and only 

 marginal anteriorly ; tbe mesosternum, anteriorly ratber 

 widely but not deeply emarginate, stria complete ; tbe 

 anterior tibia ratber strongly 4-dentate. 



Differs cbiefly from P. suturalis, Lew., in its labrum being 

 mucb more transverse, in its sborter and less defined sutural 

 stria, and in tbe posterior margin of tbe pygidium being 

 smootb and scarcely elevated. 



Hah. Kuatun, (3bina. Tbree examples. 



Platylister enodi's, sp. n. 



P. ahrupti persimilis, sed differt pygidio fere impunctato et lobo 



prosterni marginato. 

 L. 5i mill. 



Tbis species is extremely like P. abruptus^ Er., tlie elytral 

 striaj are exactly similar, viz. 1 and 2 complete, 3 interrupted 

 near tbe middle, but tbe tborax is ratber more transverse, tbe 

 lateral outline ratber less parallel, and tbere is a conspicuous 

 fovea before tbe scutellum. Tbe propygidium is smootb, witb 

 a sballow impression on eitber side near tbe posterior edge, in 

 wbicli tbere are a few small punctures, and tbe pygidium on 

 eitber side near its base lias a small cluster of punctures, but 

 it is otberwise smootb and flat. In P. enodis the stria of tbe 

 prosternal anterior lobe is marginal ; in P. abruptus it is 

 an independent arcbed stria not following the margin ; in 

 P. enodis tbe mesosternum has a slightly wider eraargination 

 and the marginal stria is more marked than in P. abruptus. 



Ilab. Mailu, British New Guinea {Anthony, July 1897). 



