298 Mr. G. Lewis on 



Japanese species came from a locality abounding with moles, 

 and, being nnique, probably had some peculiar habit in 

 retirement. Had it been an ordinary stercoraceous or cada- 

 verous species, it is more tiian likely that it would have been 

 found in abundance. 



Hister lineimargo, Reitt. Wien. ent. Zeit. xvii. 

 p. 11« (1898). 



" Ovalis, subparallelus, nitidus, parum convexus, niger, clava an- 

 tennarum fulva, pedibus fusco-ferrugineis, stria frontali Integra, 

 minus arcuata ; pronoto striis lateralibus tribus integris, interna 

 ab externis parum remota, postice mngis approximata ; elytris 

 stria subhuwerali distincta, in medio iuterrupta, striis dorsalibus 

 1-4 integris, 5-6 (internis 2) abbreviatis ; propygidio parce fortiter, 

 pygidio confertissime fortiterque punctato ; mesosterno antice 

 recte truncate, stria marginal! integra ; prosternum subtilissime 

 marginatum, baud striatum ; tibiis dilatatis, anticis extus 3-4- 

 dentatis. 



•< Long. 6|-7 mill." 



Hah. Caucasus. 



Atholus (^Hister) st'culus, Tourn. Abeille, v. p. 142 (1868). 



Tournier in his description did not notice the form of the 

 mesosternum of this species, but it is truncate, almost straight 

 anteriorly, and markedly marginate, and it should therefore 

 be assigned to the genus Atholus. 



Atholus coalescens, sp. n. 



Oralis, convexiusculus, niger, nitidus ; fronte biimpressa, stria 

 integra retrorsum augulata ; pronoto stria interna integra pone 

 oculos sinuata; elytris striis subhumerali dimidiata, dorsalibus 

 integris, 5 cum suturali connexa ; propygidio parce punctato ; 

 mesosterno truncate, marginato ; tibiis anticis 3-deutatis. 



L. 5A mill. 



Oval, rather convex, black and shining ; the head with two 

 shallow impressions behind the stria, stria rather fine and 

 acuminate in the middle; the thorax, inner lateral stria is 

 sinuous behind the eyes and does not quite reach the basal 

 edge ; the elytra, the inner subhumeral stria is apical, well- 

 marked, and dimidiate, the dorsal striae are all complete, the 

 iuterstice between the second and third is widened at the 

 base, the fifth and sutural join anteriorly ; the propygidium 

 is sparsely punctulate, the pygidium much less distinctly so; 

 tfie mesosternum is marginate and nearly straight anteriorly j 

 the anterior tibias are 3-dtutate. 



