new Species o/'Histeridae. 5 



the mesosternum is widely sinuous behind the prosternal 

 keel, and on each side it is distinctly angulate, the angles 

 are striate at the edge and within the striae on either side 

 is a small depression or shallow fovea ; the anterior tibiae are 

 4-dentate, 2 apical teeth are obtuse and close together and 

 have a common base. 



The oblong rather narrow outline of this species and the 

 form of the mandibles distinguish it from the ten other species 

 assigned to Phylloma. 



Hah. Rio Dogua, Colombia {W. F. H. Rosenberg) . One 

 example. 



Hololepta Mastersi, Macleay. 



Hololepta Mastersi, Macleay, Trans. Ent. Soc. N. S. Wales, ii. p. 157 

 (1871). 



I formerly considered (Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 6, xi. 

 p. 418, 1893) that this species was identical with H. sid- 

 nensis, Mars., 1860; but having lately received examples of 

 both sexes from Mr. A. M. Lea, I find this is an error. Both 

 species are of the same size and closely similar, but in 

 H. Mastersi the male has a carina on the mentum, the thorax 

 is impunctate, and the marginal thoracic stria is much less 

 conspicuous in both sexes. 



Hololepta Icevigata, Gu^r. 



Hololepta leevigata, Gu^r. 'VoJ^ B^langer, Zool. p. 482, t. ii. fip. 4 

 (1834). 



Tills species is entered in the Munich Catalogue as a 

 species of Plcesius, but it is a Hololepta, and a reference to 

 FlcEsius lavigatus^ Mars., is placed after it as though it were 

 the same insect. 1 think H. laevigata, Guer., is the same 

 species as Hololepta procer a, Er., also described in 1834. I 

 transcribe Gu^rin's diagnosis, which agrees with Erichson'a 

 species in belonging to a Hololepta with a frontal tubercle. 

 Hololepta procera, Er., was found by M. Mouhot in Siam, 

 and it may therefore occur in Cororaandel. It is common in 

 Java and Sumatra, and perhaps M. B^langer made an error 

 in recording the locality. 



Gu^rin's diagnosis is : — 



" H. nigra, nitida ; corpore depresso, piano, oblongo, capita laevi- 

 gato, tuberculato ; mandibulis validis, inermibus, capita longi- 

 oribus ; thorace Isevigato, transverso, antice profunda emarginato ; 

 elytris thorace longioribus, lateribus marginatis, laevigatis, linea 

 abbreviata humerali ; abdomine vage punctato ; tibiis anticis 

 estus tridentatis, intus basi unidentatis. 



" L. 15 mill., lat. 7 mill." 



Hab. Coromandel (BSlanger). 



