146 Mr. G. Lewis on 



Mars., com'Jah'i's, Sch. ^.fpini'pes, Mars., hengaJenftis, Wiedem., 

 rf'flexilahris, ceylanvs, Mars., lutariuSj scaevola, Er., congener, 

 Sell., and chinensift, Qiiens. In these species the h^brum is 

 transverse but projecting anteriorly (in the male very con- 

 spicuously so), there are no antenna! fossettes, and the anterior 

 tibise are 3-dentate. Both in Macrolister and PachyUster the 

 mesosternum is conspicuously emarginate anteriorly. 



Hister Belli, sp. n. 



Ovatus, convexiusciihis, niger, nitidus ; fronte stria antice recta ; 

 pronoto stria interna in medio sinuata ; elytris striis 1-3 integris, 

 4-5 brevissimis, punetiformibus ; propj^gidio pygidioque ocelato- 

 punctatis, posticis in mediis loevibus ; tibiis anticis valde 3- 

 dentatis. 



L. 9i mill. 



Oval, somewhat convex, black and shining ; the head, 

 frontal stria complete, straight anteriorly, deepest over the 

 eyes, vertex feebly concave ; the thorax, marginal stria fine 

 and terminating behind the eyes, the lateral stria terminates 

 in front after passing the angle, the inner lateral is sinuous 

 in the middle and continues behind the head ; the elytra, the 

 inner humeral stria is dimidiate, shortened before and beliind 

 (in one example it is very short), the oblique stria is fine but 

 long, dorsal strige 1-3 complete, 4-5 are represented only by a 

 few apical punctures ; the punctuation of the pygidia is very 

 distinctive ; both segments are longitudinally finely raised in 

 the middle, the line being clearly visible in certain lights, and 

 the punctuation is large, ocellate, not close but somewhat 

 irregular, and the apices of both segments have a 3-sided area, 

 smooth ; the mesosternum is rather deeply emarginate and is 

 bistriate at the sides only; the tibias, anterior pair are 3- 

 dentate, apical tooth very strong, intermediate less so, basal 

 short and obtuse, the intermediate and posterior tibiai are 

 niultispinose. 



If. lucisus, Lew., //. Baconi and //. assamens/'s, Mars., 

 are somewhat similar species to this, but the ocellate punctua- 

 tion of the pygidia easily distinguishes it. 



JIab. Karachi, India ( T. B. D. Bell). 



Ulster pachysoma, Ancey, Le Naturaliste, p. 55 (1882). 



This species is similar to //. longicollis, Mars. ; it differs 

 chiefly in having the frontal stria carinate, the thorax with a 

 marginal stria along the sides and thre^ lateral stria?, the 

 elytral strife are stronger and the fifth and sutural are longer, 

 sometimes even complete, and the mesosternum is anteriorly 

 truncate with a strong marginal stria. The punctuation of 



