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Mr. G. Lewis on 



rather wide and widest at the base, fine and crenulate behind 

 the liead but slightly broken behind the eyes, it is also con- 

 tinued but finely along the base close to the edge, on the disk 

 are two fovese, separated by nearly the width of the head ; 

 the elytra have two fine epipleural striajj 1-3 dorsal complete, 

 4 is a very little shortened at the base, 5 and sutural com- 

 plete and join anterioi'ly and apically the tips of both turn 

 outwards ; the propygidium is narrow and transverse and 

 crossed in tlie middle by a line of irregular punctures ; the 

 pygidium is impunctate and very largely excavated on 

 either side at the base; the prosternum has a marginal stria 



Mendelius JineijK'Hiiis. 



round its base and the striae are produced just beyond the 

 coxa?, but do not join ; the mesosteruum is widely euiar- 

 ginate behind the prostcrnal keel and the marginal stria is 

 well marked and complete and continues laterally along the 

 metasternum ; the first abdominal segment also has a well- 

 marked lateral stria; the anterior tibia? are 4-dentate. 



The thoracic fovese, such as are noted above, are, in the 

 Histeridai, sometimes (though rarely) only of individual, not 

 specific, character. 



Ilah. Nilgiri Hills, India (//. L. Andrewes, no. 747). 



Type in the Andrewes' Collection. 



Omnlodes ohllquistnus, sp. n. 



Ovalis, couvcxus, niger, nitidus ; froiite oblique striata, antice exca- 

 vata ; pronoto post oculos bipunctato ; propygidio grossc puuctato. 

 L. 7^ mill. 



Oval, convex, black and shining ; the head feebly punctu- 

 late, with two oblique stria? commencing near the middle of 

 the eyes and joining anteriorly, behind the point of meeting 

 the forehead is excavated ; the thorax, marginal stria strong 

 and com})letc, surface smooth, with a jjuncture behind either 



