100 Mr. G. Lewis on 



Zabromorphus ordinarius^ sp. n. 



Ovatus, parum convexus, niger, nitidus ; fronte irregularitcr punc- 

 tata ; elytris striis 1-3 dorsalibus integris, 4 antice abbreviata, 

 5 subobsolcta, suturali fere dimidiata; propygidio pygidioque 

 dense punctatis. 



L. 6 mill. 



Oval, rather convex, black and shining ; the liead irregu- 

 larly punctured, stria complete ; the thorax smooth, with two 

 lateral stride, interstice at and near the anterior angle with a 

 few scratches and punctures ; the elytra, strise, inner humeral 

 strong and abbreviated anteriorly for about one third, 1-3 

 also strong with fine crenate edges, 1 somewhat similar but 

 finer and but a little longer than the inner humeral stria, 5 

 very short, apical, and traceable only as punctures, sutural 

 similar to the fourth but apical and not reaching beyond the 

 middle; the pygidia are densely and very evenly punctured ; 

 the mesosternum is very feebly sinuous, with a well-marked 

 marginal stria ; the anterior tibiae 3-dentate. 



The most peculiar characteristic of this species is the sculp- 

 ture of the thoracic interstice. 



Hah. Fort Salisbury, Matabeleland. 



Macrolister, Lewis, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. xiv. p. 145 

 (1904),= Co2)tochiIus,Uey, L^Exchange (Lyon), part 14, 

 p. 4 (1888), type Hister major, L. ; Pachylister^ Lewis, 

 I. c., = Heterognathus, Rey, I. c, type Hister incequalis, 

 01. 



Key's names do not appear in the ' Zoological Record ' nor 

 in " iScudder " or any of the later lists of genera ; Rey writes 

 of them as " sous-genres," but they are natural genera, and 

 must be recognized as such. There are some specific names 

 in Key's paper also, but they are synonymic and of no 

 importance. 



As Rey's lines are very short and have escaped notice for 

 nearly twenty years, I reproduce them : — 



" IJ Hister major^ Lin., a cause de son labre echancre et 

 des cotes du prothorax densement cilies-frang^s, mdriterait de 

 constituer au moins un sous-genre (^Coptochilus, Rey)." 



" \J Hister tJicequalis, F., en raison de ses mandibules 

 inegales, pourrait egalement donner lieu a une coupe sous- 

 gdnerique {Heterognathus, Rqj)'^^ 



