THE ANNALS 



AND 



MAGAZINE OF NAT[JRAL HISTORY. 



[SIXTH SERIES.] 

 No. 53. MAY 1892. 



LI. — On some new Species 0/ Histenda3. 

 By G. Lewis, F.L.S. 



The greater part of the species dealt with in this paper are 

 contained in the collection of Mr. Fry, who has recently 

 received them from Burmah, Perak, and Sumatra ; but I 

 have also included in it some descriptions of others which 

 have come to me from other sources. Two species are from 

 Tasmania, taken by Mr. J. J. Walker during his visit last 

 year, and there are three species found by myself in Japan 

 and Ceylon. 



The genus Cylistix has hitherto been considered an 

 American genus, and the occurrence of two species in Central 

 Asia is a matter of much interest, and I believe there is a 

 third in the Museum from the Andaman Islands. Having 

 alluded to the distribution of Cylistix^ I may mention the 

 curious fact that the genus Ilister has as yet no representa- 

 tive in either Australia or New Zealand, and if Mr. Walker 

 fails to find any at Port Darwin or other places from which 

 he at this time dates his letters, the negative evidence of 

 their absence will be greatly increased. 



Last December, in the Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, I gave a 

 list of the Histerid^ taken in Burmah by Signor Fea, 

 amounting to about ninety species ; the Burmese fauna is added 



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