— new Spectes of Histeride. 423 
and irregular, not very close; the pygidium, on the basal 
area the punctures are less close than those of the pro- 
pygidium and the apex is smooth, behind the anterior angles 
there is an impression on either side which apparently 
represents a rudimentary furrow; the prosternum is not 
striate ; the mesosternum is emarginate, striz similar to 
those of the last species, except that the strie at the 
angles are angulate, not sinuous; the anterior tibie are 
4-dentate. 
_ The species, like the last, has a narrow thoracic lateral 
interstice. 
fab. Palembang, Sumatra. 
Platysoma incisipyge, Mars. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (6) iii. 
p- 67 (1883), is a species of Hblista. Marseul suggested the 
generic name of Nicotikis for it, but did not characterize it, 
nor did he recognize that four species previously described 
by him as Phelister lunaticus, celebius, speculipygus, and 
Platysoma Steinheilli were congeneric with it. 
Contipus digitatus, Mars. Mon. p. 547 (1853).—In the 
Munich Catalogue the name of the genus is changed to 
Contopus, a name preoccupied in Aves. I think the type 
of this species is in the British Museum from a collection 
purchased from Sallé, in whose collection probably Laferte’s 
was incorporated. In Marseul’s collection the species is now 
represented by specimens of C. jlewuosus, Sch., a common 
species in §. Africa. 
Hister confector, sp. n. 
Ovalis, convexiusculus, niger, nitidus, supra tenuiter punctulatus ; 
fronte stria integra antice sinuata; pronoto stria externa abbre- 
viata, interna haud interrupta; elytris striis 1-4 integris, 5 basi 
inconspicua, suturali ultra medium abbreviata ; propygidio punc- 
tulato ; tibiis anticis 6—7-denticulatis. 
L. 43 mill. 
Oval, rather convex, black and shining, lightly punctulate 
above ; the head, forehead not impressed, stria complete and 
sinuous anteriorly; the thorax, outer lateral stria much 
abbreviated at the base, inner lateral shortened a little at the 
base and continued behind the head where it is irregularly 
crenulate, the lateral interstice is rather wide; the elytra, 
striz, outer humeral very short and indistinct, only visible 
behind the shoulder, inner humeral strong and well marked 
and ceasing at the base, where it mects the oblique humeral 
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