226 Mr. G. Lewis on 



anterior angle, fine and irregularly crenulate anteriorly, with 

 an indication of being broken behind the eye, surface sparingly 

 punctured, points very fine on the disk, but more distinct 

 laterally, with a few larger points near the base opposite the 

 first elytral stria ; the elytra, outer humeral strong and com- 

 plete, inner wanting, 1-2 dorsal complete, 3 almost complete 

 but a little broken and punctiform in tlie middle, 4 apical and 

 short, there are fine and somewhat obscure punctures on the 

 interstice between the humeral and first dorsal striae and some 

 more distinct in the apical area ; the propygidium lias two 

 shallow fovese and is clearly but not densely punctured, 

 especially at the sides; the pygidium is similarly but more 

 evenly punctured ; the prosternum, the anterior lobe is 

 distinctly punctate, keel with a few very fine points, bistriate, 

 strife sinuous ; the mesosternum is marginate on each side 

 only, not behind the keel, the suture between the sterna is 

 scarcely traceable ; the anterior tibiae are i-dentate. 



The general form of this species resembles ^1. mysoUcus, 

 Mars. 



Ilah. Sumatra (^Dr. Foerster). 



Platysoma scalptum, sp. n. 



Oblongv.m, subdepressum, nigrum, nitidum ; fronte baud cxeavata, 

 stria iutegra ; pronoto striis marginaU et laterali integris ; 

 elytris striis, subhumerali ab humero ad suturam distincte con- 

 tinuata, 1-3 integris, 4-5 abbreviatis ; propygidio pygidioque 

 subocellato-punctatis, hoc baud convexo ; tibiis anticis 4-dentatis. 



L. 4 mill. 



Oblong, rather depressed, black and shining; the head not 

 excavated, frontal stria complete, strong, and nearly straigiit 

 anteriorly ; the thorax, marginal stria very tine, lateral stria 

 close and parallel to it and joining it behind the eyes, well 

 within the lateral stria, but near the middle of the lateral 

 border are some conspicuous scratches or broken striee^ which 

 are very clmracteristic, the surface is impunctate; the elytra, 

 stride, the outer humeral is complete and well-marked and is 

 continued along the apical edge and a short distance round 

 the sutural angle, dorsal strife 1-3 complete, 4 almost di- 

 midiate, 5 somewhat longer, sutural wanting, unless the 

 terminal end c£ the outer humeral represents it; the pro- 

 pygidium and the pygidium are densely and coarsely punctate ; 

 the presternum is rather narrow and without strife ; the 

 mesosternum is formed similarly to that of P. Conjucii, 

 Mars., but the marginal stria is complete ; the anterior tibiaj 

 are 4-dentate. 



JJab. Make, Malabar. 



