new Species of Histeride. 189 
bistriato et margine elevato; elytris, striis 1-3 et subhumerali 
integris, 4 dimidiata, 5 subobsoleta, suturali utrinque abbreviata ; 
propygidio pygidioque dense punctatis. 
L. 42-5 mill. 
Shortly oval, convex above, black, shining; the head 
wholly but irregularly punctured, stria complete, cariniform, 
and straight anteriorly, with two somewhat feeble impressions 
behind the stria ; the apex of the epistoma is transverse and 
the anterior edge is reflexed; the thorax narrowest at the 
anterior angles, then widening to the base, anterior angles 
depressed and somewhat produced, the external lateral edge 
is narrowly carinate and within it are two complete cariniform 
striz; the interstice between the marginal rim and the outer 
carinate stria is of the same breadth as that between the outer 
and inner carinate stria, the interstices mentioned are irregu- 
larly punctured; the innermost lateral stria is continued 
(somewhat finely and crenulate) behind the neck, the one 
next the outer rim terminates behind the eye, the lateral 
margins within the striz are broadly strigose-punctate, some- 
what resembling the sculpture seen in H. longicollis, Mars., 
but less strigose, the punctures spread out along the anterior 
margin, but almost disappear behind the middle of the neck ; 
the elytra, strie 1-4 and inner subhumeral equally complete 
and distinct and very obscurely crenulate, the internal sub- 
humeral at its base turns towards the first dorsal stria, the 
fourth stria is apical and scarcely reaches the middle (it is 
broken and punctitorm), the fifth is similar but more feeble, 
the sutural is fine, shortened before the apex, and extends a 
little only beyond the middle of the dorsum ; the propygidium 
is somewhat closely and clearly punctured, punctures mostly 
oval; the pygidium punctures less oval and more dense. 
This peculiar species may be placed near H. longicollis, 
Mars. 
Hab. Gadzima (alt. 4200 feet) and Salisbury (5000 feet), 
in Mashonaland (Marshall). Found in dung. 
Hister latistrius, Lew. 
Ester latistrius, Lewis, Ent. Month. Mag. (2) ii. p. 106 (1891) 
‘his remarkable species is more circular in outline and flatter 
than H. cenosus, Ky. ; the prosternum is without strie, irregu- 
larly punctured with a microscopic strigose sculpture, and the 
anterior lobe is clearly marginate; the mesosternum is emar- 
ginate and the marginal stria sinuous and complete. The 
elytral subhumeral stria is complete. 
Hab. Mexico (Flohr). 
