new Species of l\\ster\<}ai. 2*25 



This species in its opacity aii<l smface-sculj)ture is siinil.ir 

 to P^ilosalis II<irr'tsii\ Loc. ; it is rather more oblong than 

 Placodes caj/rr^ Kr. 



I/ai>. Kuilu, French Coiif^o {^fucquer^s, 181I2). One 

 example. 



IHutyHster mirabilis, sp. n. 



Oblongua, subdepressus, nigcr, nitidus; fronto coiicava, stria bi- 

 siiniata utrinquc intorrupfa ; clytris striis dorsalibus 1-3 in- 

 tegri.s, 4 in medio subinterrupta, 5-0 apicalibus ; p)-gidio dense 

 ocelliito-punctato ; nicsosterno stria late intcrrupta ; tibiis iuter- 

 mcdiis in medio bispiuosis, posticis uuispinosis. 



L. 11 mill, (absque mandibulis). 



Oblon<r, S(Mne\vhat cl^presse 1, black and shining; the head 

 finely punctured, anteriurly with the cpistoma concave, trans- 

 verse stria not deeply imj)ressed, bisinuous, and not reaching 

 the edge on either side ; mandibles robust, each with two teeth 

 on the inner edge, left mandible concave at the base ; the 

 thorax transverse, marginal stria very fine and sinuous behind 

 the middle, lateral stria deep at the sides, especially behind 

 the anterior angle, coiiipK tc behind the head and at the base 

 it is continued round the angle, to a point opposite the base 

 of the third dorsal stria, scutellar fovea small but very 

 distinct ; the elytra, lateral margin with two fine and com- 

 plete .«stria^, both strongly and similarly sinuous in the middle; 

 dorsal strigc, 1-3 complete, rather wide but shallow, 2 bent at 

 the base towards 3, 4 less marked than the third and evan- 

 escent before the middle, 5 apical and not reaching the middle, 

 6 shorter and partly punctifurm, the oidy humeral stria visible 

 is an oblique stria at the base which is very fine ; the pro- 

 pygidinm has shallow ocellate punctures, somewhat irregular 

 and rather closely set, the posterior margin is smooth ; the 

 pygidium has similar punctures, but they are more eveidy and 

 more closely set, and the posterior margin is slightly raised 

 and smooth ; the prosternum is finely punctulate and its 

 anterior lobe is margined by a semicircular well-marked 

 stria ; the niesosternum is eniarginate and the stria? are lateral 

 only and not close to the edge; the anterior tibia? are 4-den- 

 tate, intermediate with two teeth close to the tarsi and two 

 very distinct near the middle on the outer edge, posterior has 

 two tarsal teeth and one acute spine behind the middle on 

 the outer edge. 



Except the large size of this species and its peculiar tibial 

 spines, 1 cannot find any characters to separate it generically 

 from Vlatylister ovatus^ Er. 



IIuIk Khasia Hills. 

 Ann. ct May. S. Hist. Ser. 7. lo/. v. 15 



