. The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology. Natural history; Zoology; Botany; Geology. 112 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 propygidiu
. The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology. Natural history; Zoology; Botany; Geology. 112 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. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally
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