342 Mr. G. Lewis on some 



to here by the addition of four very interesting insects taken 

 by Mr. Doherty. 



List of Species arranged systematically. 



ApoHetes nigritulus. Triballus onustus. 



Platysoma jejunum. opimus. 



carolinum, Payk. Trypeticus Dohertyi, Leic. 



Cylistix asiatica. — — nemorivagus. 



orientalis. prsedaceus. 



Pachycraerus ritsemse, Mars. Teretrius Walkeri. 



Psiloscelis limatulus. Onthophilus tuberculatus. 



Hister rugistrius. sculptilis. 



famulus. Epiechinus taprobanse. 



Epierus nemoralis. birmanus. 



Xestipyge Fryi. Abrseus mikado. 



Notodoma solstitiale. Acritus shogunus. 



rufulum. tasm anise. 



Eretmotus Leprieuri, Mars. 



Apohletes nigritulus, sp. ii. 



Oblongo-ovatus, complanatus, nigcr, nitidus ; pronoto stria antice 

 late interrupta ; elytris punctato-striatis, striis 1*— i"" integris, 

 5*- 6" abbreyiatis. 



L. 2 1 miU. 



Oblong-oval, black, shining ; the head with a few large 

 punctures mixed with small and fine ones of various sizes, 

 ocular stria broad and rather deep, forehead lightly im- 

 pressed ; the thorax, lateral stria somewhat sinuous, tine in 

 the middle, well-marked at the base and strong at the ante- 

 rior angle, ceasing behind the eye ; there is a line of scattered 

 punctures similar to those on the liead on each side well away 

 from the margin, the disk is sparsely pitted with an 

 extremely fine punctuation, the edge of the base is punctured 

 from the angle to a point opposite the fourth stria, scutellar 

 spot scarcely visible ; the elytra punctate-striate, strice 1-4 

 complete, fitth apical, reaching just beyond the middle, sutural 

 mucli shorter, neither reaching the middle nor the apex, 

 apical margins a little punctured ; the propygidium and 

 pygidium punctured like the sides of the thorax ; the pro- 

 sternum with fine punctures like tlie thoracic disk and some 

 large punctures on each side of the anterior lobe, bistriate, 

 strife widening out from each other in front of the coxje; the 

 mesostcrnum smooth, bisinuous anteriorly, but the sinuosities 

 are extremely feeble, the stria is strong and complete, the 

 suture well-marked ; the metasternum has scattered points, 

 which become obsolete in the median area; the anterior tibiffi 

 are 5-dentate. 



