neio Species of IlisteriJre. 189 



probably denotos the suture between it and the metasternum. 

 These l;ist f-'tiiio are very similar to those of ovatus. 

 IJah. Taniatave, ]\Iadagascar. 



Fisr. 3. Fi- 4. 



Notolister ovatus ^ sp. n. 



Ovatus, convexiusculus, supra tenuissime punctulatus ; fronte in- 

 a-quali baud striata ; pronoto parum profunde sulcato ; elj'tris 

 striis 1-3 integris, iuterstitiis punctatis, suturali basi abbreviata; 

 mesosterno bistriato; tibiis anticis 7-dcutatis. 



L. 6^-7 miU. 



Oval, rather convex, black and shining ; the head, surface 

 unequal and without a transverse stria; the thorax, marginal 

 stria complete, widening out a little behind the head, sulcus 

 less wide than that of the last species ; the elytra with five 

 epipleural striaj, outer humeral shortened before the base, 

 inner humeral as in catenatus, 1-3 dorsal entire but merging- 

 apically in the punctures, the apical punctuation extends 

 beyond the middle between the first and second stria3 and 

 scarcely to the middle between the second and third, the 4-5 

 stria3 are either absent or represented by apical punctures, the 

 sutural is punctate-striate and is shortened just before the 

 base ; the pygidia are punctate like those of the last species ; 

 the prosternum is similar to that of catenatus; the meso- 

 sternum is feebly sinuous and has two transverse lines of 

 points (fig. 4), the second stria probably indicates the suture 

 between the meso- and metasterna. 



In outline this species is oval and resembles N. Edwardsi, 

 Mars., but the dorsal sculpture of the two species is different, 

 and Edwardsi has probably but one sternal stria, as Marseul 

 merely says " mesosternum entirely margined," which would 

 not apply to two rows of punctures. 



Uab. Madagascar (Sikora). 



AsOLENUS, gen. nov. 

 The genus is established to receive Notolister sanguinosus^ 

 Ann & Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 7. Vol. xviii. 14 



