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Thiimahdi ind/'cif.f, n. sp. ^ ^ 



Broad oval, widened posteriorly, shining, thickly clothed with long, fine, 

 erect yellowish pubescence; aeneo-piceous, the explanate margins of the pro- 

 thorax testaceous, those of the elytra brown, the eyes and mandibles black, the " 

 antennae and legs testaceous, the antennal club (except at the extreme tip) 

 ])iceous ; the head and prothorax closely, rather finely punctate. Elytra 

 gibbous, rounded at the sides from the moderately prominent humeri to the 

 apex, widest beyond the middle, the explanate margins broad throughout ; the 

 surface rather uneven, impressed with irregular rows of moderately coarse 

 punctures, which become larger and deeper towards the sides, the interstices 

 with scattered very minute piligerous punctures. Length 6|, breadth 4| mm. 



Sab. India, W. Almora in Kumaon (H.G.C: x.l917). 



Two specimens. Very like T. subfilis Reitt., from the Caucasus, 

 from which it differs in having the elytra a little more elongate, widest 

 beyond the middle, broadly explanate throughout, and rounded at Ihe 

 sides from the base, the disc more coarsely punctured, the humeri 

 less prominent externally. Allied forms occur in Japan. The ecnus 

 Tliymalus is apparently an addition of the list of Indian Trogosit dae. 



Teredolaemus major, n. sp. 



Elongate, c^dindvical, glabrous, shining ; black, the anterior margiu of the 

 head, oral organs, antennae and legs, and in one specimen a spot at the side of 

 each ventral segment, ferruginous or testaceous, the femora slightly infuscate. 

 Head broad, closeW, finely punctate, the ej'es large; antennae with a large 

 broad-oval club, the shining basal portion of which is about as long as the 

 opaque apical portion, the latter bluntly rounded at the tip, the suture between 

 them feebly curved, joint 9 strongly transverse, much wider than 8. Pi-othorax 

 convex, about as long as broad, slightly compressed and distinctly narrowed 

 towards the base, the latter very feebly bisinuate; finely, rather sparsely punctate. 

 l:]lvtra about two and one-third times the length ot the prothorax, fhittenetl on 

 the disc anteriorly, bluntly rounded at the apex; with somewhat irregular 

 rows of tine, approximate punctures placed in almost obsolete striae, tlie sutural 

 stria continued to the apex, the interstices fiat, irregularly uuiseriate-punctate 

 (some of these punctures being larger than the rest); the apical declivity 

 rather broadly longitudinally excavate near the suture. Tibiae strongly, 

 angularly dilated at the apex. Length 4-4i, breadth H-l| mm. ( 9 •) 



Hah. India, W. Almora in Kumaon {II. G. C). 

 Two specimens (one of which is certainly $ ), sent in spirit with 

 various insects found under the bark of Pinus longifolui, in which it 

 doubtless preys upon beetle larvae. Larger and broader than of the 

 four described Indian members of the genus (T. similis Sharp, and 

 T. unicolor, himaculatus, and concolor Grouv.), with a differentl}' formed 

 antennal club, and more widely excavate apical decUvity of the elytra. 

 The type of the genus, T. [joUtus Sharp, from Japan (figured in Journ. 



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