new Species of IlisteriJiB. 2G9 



a small boss which interrupts the marginal stria, which other- 

 wise is complete and strong, the surface is sparingly punctured; 

 the thorax, the marginal stria is complete and crenulate 

 behind the head, behind the eyes there is a longitudinal 

 impression which occupies nearly half the thoracic length, 

 surface somewhat evenly but not densely punctured ; the 

 elytra, stria?, inner humeral basal and dimidiate, 1-3 com- 

 plete, 4 turns towards tlie sutural at the base, but does 

 not quite join it, 5 is shortened before the base ; the propy- 

 gidium and pygidium are sparingly punctured; theprosternum, 

 keel flat, widest at the base, and bordered with a stria which 

 meets anteriorly ; tiie mesosternum has two irregular mar- 

 ginal striaj which do not meet in the middle, the transverse 

 stria is feebly bent and crenulate; the metasternum has a 

 band of sparse shallow and irregular punctures in lieu of the 

 arched crenulate stria seen in N. fungorutn, Lew., and others ; 

 the first segment of the abdomen has a row of round punc- 

 tures along its anterior edge, and the tarsi are relatively short 

 for a species of Notodoma. 



This species is remarkable for its colour, strong frontal 

 stria, and short tarsi. 



Hub. Palembang, Sumatra. 



PJwxonotus lectus, sp. n. 



Ovalis, convexus, brunneo-piceus, nitidus ; fronte iitrinque mar- 

 ginata; pronoto stria marginali Integra, tubcrculis 6 basi ; clytris 

 sutura elevata, 2 tuberculorum 3 lineis, striis 1 et subhumerali 

 integris, 2-4 diniidiatis tenuibus ; prosterno bistriato, striis 

 diverge utibus, in medio longitudinaliter tenuiter carinato ; meso- 

 sterno sparse et minute punctulato. 



L. 4 mill. 



Oval, convex, piceous and shining ; the head striate on either 

 side, surface very finely pointed and also that of the thorax ; 

 the tubercles on the thorax and elytra, also the striae on 

 the latter, are fine, and correspond with those figured for 

 P. tuherculaluSj Mars.; the pygidia are finely and evenly 

 punctured ; the prosternum, anterior lobe is marginate and 

 moderately expanded, keel rather broad and bistriate, striae 

 cariniform and widely divergent, and are rounded off anteriorly 

 and continued along the edge of the lobe, the keel is longi- 

 tudinally feebly carinate ; the mesosternum is rather acutely 

 pointed anteriorly, with a fine marginal stria which follows 

 the course of the acumination, the sternal suture is marked 

 by a feeble crenulate stria, crenulations wide and irregularj 

 surface with a sparse and extremely fine punctuation ; the 



