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FAMILY HISTERIDAE 



Fig. 67. — Hololepta 



indica, Erichs. x 2. 



Siwaliks. 



Hololepta indica, Erichs. 



References. — Erichs. Jahrb. p. 90(1834); Mars. Mon. p. 152, pi. 4, f. 10 

 (1853); batchiana, Mars. I.e. p. 588, pi. 11, f. 2 (i860) ; Lew. Ann. 

 Mus. Genova, xii, p. 631, (i8gi) ; aequa, Lew. Ann. Nat. Hist, xvi, 

 p. 204 (1885). 



Habitat. — Siwaliks, North India. Also reported 

 from Assam, Java, New Guinea. 



Habits. — This insect was taken by Student 

 B. C. S. Gupta, at Bulawala, beneath the bark of 

 Lagerstromia parviflora in company with H. haunlyt, 

 as above described. 



Teretriosoma. 

 Of the three Indian species known, the first was 

 described in 1870, the other two in igoi. 



Teretriosoma intrusum, Mars. 



References. — Mars. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. (Tereti-ius) xiii, p. 121 (1870); Stabbing, Depart. Notes, 



p. 20 (1902). 



Habitat. — Changa Manga, Punjab ; Sukkur, Sind ; Seoni, Central 

 Provinces. 



Habits. — This insect is predaceous upon the wood-boring beetles Sinoxy- 

 lon crussuui and S. anale. It has been taken in the galleries of the beetles 

 in sissu wood at the Changa Manga Plantation ; in Prosopis spicigera in 

 Sukkur, Sind ; and in Tcrininalia toinentosa at Seoni, in the Central Provinces 

 {vide p. 164). 



Teretriosoma stebbingi, Lewis. 



Reference. — Lewis, Ann. Nat. Hist, viii, p. 380 (1901) ; Stebbing, Depart. Notes, p. 19 (1902). 



Habitat. — Changa Manga Plantation, Punjab. 



Habits. — The insect has been taken in compan}- with T. intmisum, 

 predaceous upon the wood-borers Sinoxylon crassum and 5. analc, in sissu 

 wood at the Changa Manga Plantation {viilc p. 164 and fig. 108). 



Teretriosoma cristatum,* Lewis. 



References. — Lewis, Ann. Nat. Hist, viii, 381 (1901); Stebbing, Depart. Notes, p. 19 (1902). 



Habitat. — Changa Manga Plantation, Punjab. 



Habits.^Predaceous upon Sinoxylon crassum and S. analc in sissu-trees 

 at the Changa Manga Plantation (p. 164). 



Teretrilis. 



The only Indian species of the genus mentioned in Lewis' Catalogue* 

 was taken at Seoni in the Central Provinces. A second species from the 

 Punjab was described in 191 1. 



* According to Sharp (if;//. St>c-. p. 513, 191 2) cristatum is the female oi stebbingi. 



