On new S/>€cies of Ilisteriiho. 241 



XXX. — <ht ncio Species o/' Ilisteriflffi and Notices of others, 

 lly G. Lewis, F.L.S. 



The picseiit paper id the nineteenth of a series on t!»e 

 HisteridsB publislied in this Mai^.-izine. 



List of Species. 



Plnesitis cossyplnis, Mars. Ulster npicalis, Fai'rm., 1898, 

 Apobletes Mifrneauxi, Mars. =Xot(«li8ter9ulcicollis, Lew., 1896. 

 Plfttysonia pictipenne. Pelorurus Cre<roei. 

 Cvpturiis bt'iifnileasis. Tribalus Iloniii. 

 tfister Lameerei. Saprinua viridipennia. 

 MaindroDii. 



Pltesius cossi/phusj ]Mars. Abeille, i. p. 285 (1864). 



Marseul was doubtful whether the above waa a variety 

 of P. pudicuSj Mars., or not. I have recently acquired a 

 considerable number of specimens, and I have no doubt 

 it is distinct; beyond the characters mentioned by xMarseul, 

 all of which I find are constant, the anterior femora are 

 very distinctly punctured, and their edges are but slightly 

 raised. The femora in P. pudicus are smooth and markedly 

 marginate. 



Apolletes Mifjneau.ri, Mars. Mon. p. 855. n. 10, fig. 2 (18G0). 

 Ilerr J. Schmidt publislied a note on this species in the 

 Ann. »Soc. Ent. Fr. p. 290 (1892), formed on an erroneous 

 impression. The species is very different to A. foliaceus^ 

 Payk., and, indeed, to any other described species. The 

 description and figure given by Mar.seul are both very good, 

 but the mesosternal marginal stria, although very fine, is 

 sometimes, if not always, complete. Marseul says it is inter- 

 rupted (p. 85G), and it may be so in the type specimen. 



Platij soma pictipenne, sp. n. 



Oblongo-ovatum, depressiusculum, nifjrum, nitidum ; front© stria 

 intei^ra Icviter bisinuata ; elytris striis 1-3 iiitcgris, 4-5 brevis- 

 siniid, macula media rubra; tibiis anticis 4-deutatifl. 



L. 3j mill. 



Oblong-oval, rather depressed, black and shining, with a 

 red .spot rather before the middle of each elytron equal in 

 width to three of the interstices between the dorsal stri;e; the 

 luad, frontal stria conipleto, not strong, and feebly bisinuou.s 

 anteriorly ; the thorax, surface under the microscope appears 

 finely punctured, lateral stria complete, parallel, and close to 



