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internal stria strong, shortened a little at the base and joining 

 the marginal stria (indistinctly at times) behind the eyes, scu- 

 tellar spot small and impressed on the edge of the thorax; 

 elytra, outer stria complete and slightly crenulate, 4.* shortened 

 at the base with a bent appendage, 5.' apical, ceasing in the 

 middle, suturai longer , being abbreviated only before the base ; 

 the propygidium and pygidium are evenly covered with mo- 

 derately large and fairly close punctures ; prosternum, striae 

 joined at the base, gradually turning to each otlier at tlie 

 middle leaving only a narrow interstice, then again divergent 

 and shortened before the suture, lobe sparsely punctate; meso- 

 sternum nearly straight anteriorly with the transverse stria fine 

 and arched. 



Superficially this species resembles ruficornis, Grimm, but the 

 head is much narrower and beneath it differs in having pro- 

 sternal striae and the mesosternal stria is independently arched 

 not following the outline of the anterior edge as it does in 

 rujicornis. The external edge of the anterior tibiae resembles 

 that of H. ruficornis, Grimm and has 8 or 10 small spines at 

 about equal distances from each other. 



Hah. Garin Gheba 900-1100 m. 



33. Hister sinuaticoilis , n. sp. 



Breviter ovalis^ niger nitidus; pedibus piceis; thorace antice pro- 

 minulo ntrinque sinuato, angulis depressis; elytris, striis 1-3 integris, 

 4 vix abbreviata^ rudimento aucla, 5 suturalique late abbreviatis. 

 Long. 3 Va- 3^4 mill. 



Shortly oval, convex very black and shining, antennae and 

 legs pitchy red; head with a few fine scattered punctures, 

 frontal stria semicircular and well marked; thorax transverse, 

 prominent in front behind the neck, depressed at the sides and 

 sinuous behind each eye, marginal stria fine, terminating behind 

 the eye, lateral stria rather strong, slightly sinuous, and conti- 

 nuing as a fine crenulate stria behind the head. The thorax is 

 punctured like the head and has an ante-scutellar fovea small 



