342 Mr. G. Lewis on 



Flatysoma connexum, Fauv. Rev. d'Eiit. x. p. 166 (1891). 



" Forma plana, striis elytrorum structuraque pj^gidii ut in latisferno, 

 Mars., conformatis, sed pronoti lateribus minus distincte punctu- 

 latis, stria lateral! marginal! conjuncta, hac margine apical! hand 

 interrupta, prosterno minus lato, mesosterno toto marglnato, 

 antice arcuatim profundius sinuato, sine linea inter hoc et meta- 

 sternum bene perspicua sat facile distinguendum." 



L. 4 mill. 



TIab. New Caledonia. 



I copy Fauvel's description of the above, as I apparently 

 erroneously placed P. connexum as a synonym of P. Mont- 

 rouzieri. Mars., in the Cataloaue of 1905. 



Platysoma Simeani, Mulsant & Godart, Ann. Soc. Linn. 

 Lyon, xxi. p. 420 (1874). 



" Oblong, noir, brillant ; antennes et pattes brunatres ; 

 strie frontale enti^re ; prothorax quadrangulaire ; elytres a 

 trois strics marginales entieres ; les trois suivantes raccourcies ; 

 pygidium convert de gros points ocelles ; tons les tarses 

 [tibiaj] trident^s." 



Mulsant also says that the prosternum is bordered with a 

 stria, but this refers to the anterior lobe, not to the keel. 

 The anterior tibiae are 3-dentate, but the others are 4-spinose. 



The head is finely punctulate anteriorly and somewhat 

 coarsely punctured behind, the frontal stria is strong and 

 widely transverse in front, not quite straight, and continues 

 well-marked over the eye ; the lateral stria is very similar to 

 that of Confucn, Mars., but it continues a little round the 

 posterior angle and behind the neck it widens a little away 

 from the edge and is feebly and irregularly crenate, surface 

 lightly punctulate, especially laterally ; the pygidia are 

 closely ocellately punctured ; the mesosternum is rather 

 widely sinuous anteriorly, but the marginal stria is bisinuous 

 and fine and not very close to tlie edge, and it is broken at 

 tlie suture, not joining the metasternal lateral stria. The 

 elytra, as Mulsant says, have the 1-3 dorsal complete, 4-5 

 and sutural not quite dimidiate, the fourth and fifth (the 

 shortest) are rather shorter than the sutural. The outer 

 humeral stria is fine and complete, and continues along the 

 apical margin to a point op])Osite the sutural stria. 



The form of the humeral stria will serve to identify this 

 species from others known. 



IJuh. Beirut, Syria, " sous I'eeorce d'uu olivier." 



