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SOME INDIAN COLEOPTEKA (7).* 

 BY G. C. CHAMPION, F.Z.S. 



The seventh contribution of this series contains descriptions of a 

 few more Staphylinidae, various Clavicornes, and one or more Ptinidae, 

 Melandryidae, and Mordellidae. Many additional species of quedius, 

 Cryptophagus, Corticaria, etc., have come to hand from Kumaon, but 

 these cannot be determined at present. Unnamed Indian Mordella and 

 MonJelUstena are to be found in collections, but none appear to have 

 been recorded. Amongst the Cryptophagids, a specimen of Henoticu^ 

 indicus Grouv. (1916), from Nainital, and severar examples of the 

 cosmopolitan Cryptopldlas integer Heer, from Sarda, Bengal, have been 

 identified. 



The species or varieties enumerated or described, in this paper are 

 as follows, the genera marked with an asterisk being additions to the 

 Indian fauna : — 



Staphylinidae. 



Bolitohiiis spinipes, n. sp. 



,, xa7ithopterus, n. sp. 

 Mycetopoms fasciatocollis, n. sp. 

 Quedius (Rrtp?iiri(s) conicus, n. sp. 

 Lathrohmm semicaervleum Cam., 

 var. ochreonotatum, n. 

 *Pseudohium laeviventre, n. sp. 

 Cbtptophagidae. 

 Antlieropliagus Ivimalaicus, n. sp. 

 Cryptophagus atratus, n. sp. 



Latheidiidae. 

 Corticaria orientalis, n. sp. 

 „ rJiomhifera, n. sp. 



„ inflata, n. sp. 



„ nehulosa, n. sp. 



,, piarincoUis, n. sp. 



CUCUJIDAE. 



*Platycotylus inusitatus Olliff. 



COLTDIIDAE. 



Cerylon setulosum, n. sp. 

 „ striativentre, n. sp. 

 Thorictidae. 

 *Thorictodes erraticus, n. sp. 



Ptinidae. 

 *Sphindus semirufus. n. sp. 



Melandryidae. 

 *P}iloeotrya quercicola, n. sp. 

 Osphya dissimilis, n. sp. 



Mordellidae. 

 Mordella argenteoyuttata, n. sp. 

 Mordellistena cuneigera, n. sp. 



humeronotata, n. sp. 



Bolitohias spinipes, n. sp. 

 Blxek shiuin-, the basal joints and tip of the antennae, an oblong 

 wX'atch on^;ach elytron,\he femora, and ^.^terior coxae testaceo^^^^^ 

 the abdomen and under surface clothed with long-, stiff, ^^eou-nben , bnsdy 

 hairs, the abdominal segments with longer projecting setae at each h^nd an • 

 Head smooth, long, about half the width of the base o t^- P-^ -^^P;^^] 

 sided behind the eyes; antennae rather ^'^^^'''^^^^'^^'\''^f^^^^ 

 6-11 opaque, stout, 5 triangular, G-10 transverse, 11 oval. P^^*^'^ ^^ '"f °;^' 

 as lon/as broad, widest a little before the base, subcouica as -n from ab ve 

 the apex with four and the base with two setigerous punctures, ^ ^J^^ ^^^^ 

 than the prothorax^aWas^on^^ ^^^^ ™ 



Continued from Vol. LVII. p. 206, September, 1921. 



