new Species of Ilisteiidse. 283 



ratlier obscure piincfiires re])re.scnt:* tlio imior Imnifral, 1 ami 



3 dorsal complete, the first turnin^j; inwards at the base, 2 and 



4 nearly complete, bein^ a very little shortened at the base, 5 

 nearly dimidiate and a|)ical, sutural nearly twice the lenji^th of 

 the fourth ; the pro|)y<,'idiuin is imj)ress('d on inther side, clearly 

 but not densely punctate; the pyL,Milium, the punctures are 

 similar but are arraiiLced chiefly aloiii^ the b ise ; the pro- 

 sternum, the atiterior lobe at the apex is mari^ined with a 

 stria, but the stria leaves the edge laterally and j)asses 

 obliquely down the sides ; the mesosternum is ratlier widely 

 emarginate and the marginal stria is comjdete; the meta- 

 sternum is longitudinally sulcate in the middle ; the anterior 

 tibia? are 3-(lentate. 



Histtr hifrntis^ Mars., agrees with this species in the form 

 of the head, but in ILfroufalis the thorax is not bisinuous, 

 there is a short stria at the angle, the outer subhumeral stria 

 is wanting, the pygidium is not so densely punctured, and 

 the mesosternum is emarfrinate not strai;rht. 



Ilah KliMsia Hills, Assam. 



Stktostix fxirra^ Mars. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xiii. p. 02 

 (1870). 



As there are now four species assigned to the genus Sticto- 

 stix from Australia and two from North America, I have 

 thought it desirable to give a figure of the tyi)e of the genus, 

 4S. parra, Mars. (fig. 2). All the species are highly sculp- 

 tured, but nothing as yet has been recorded of their habits. 



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Sdclosti.r parra, Mars. 



NOTOCCELIS, gen. nov. 



Body oblong, gibbous in the dorsal region; head retractile 

 and declivous, frontal stria carinate ; the thorax contracted at 

 the base, with the disk almost wholly excavated ; the elytra 



