FAMILY HISTERIDAE 105 



Teretrius Indus, Lewis. 



Referench. — Lewis, Ann. Nat. Hist, x, p. 277 (1902). 



Habitat. — Seoni, Central Provinces. 



Habits. — I took specimens of this insect from the tunnels of Sinoxylon 

 crassuni in a Terminalia tomentosa post taken from the roof of a bungalow in 

 Seoni, in the Central Provinces. The insect proved to be new to science, 

 and this was the first discovery of the existence of the genus in India 

 {vide p. 164 and fig. io8a). 



Teretrius mogul, Lewis. 



Reference. — Lewis, Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 8, viii, p. 78 (191 1). 



Habitat. — Changa Manga, Lahore, Punjab. 



Habits.— I took this insect associated with Tcretviosoma intriisuui in the 

 galleries of S. crassum in Dalbcrgia sissoo at Changa Manga, near Lahore 

 (p. 164). 



Platysoma. 

 Platysoma rimarium, Er. 



References.— Erichs, Jahrb. p. 112 (1834) ; Mars. Mon. p. 149, pi. 3, f. 9 (1861). 



Habitat. — Siwaliks, North Lidia. 



Habits. — In January igo2 I took specimens of this 

 histerid from beneath the bark of a dead felled sal-tree 

 at Dholkhand, on the south side of the Siwaliks. The 

 dead tree was infested by the beetles Carpophilns flavipes 

 a.nd Ecnoinaens (pp. 109, no), and it is possible that the 

 histerids may have been predaceous upon these latter. 



Towards the end of February of the same year, 

 Mr. A. Littlewood, of the Madras Provincial Service, 

 at the time a student at the Imperial Forest School, 

 took further specimens of the beetle from beneath 

 Flaiys^ma rLanum, Patches of rotting bark on living sal-trees at Karwa- 

 Er. Siwaliks. pani, in the Dun. 



Platysoma rimae, Lewis. 



Reference. — Lewis, Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 7, vol. xvi, p. 343 (1905). 



Habitat.— North- West Himalaya. 



Habits. — A common histerid, to be found in the galleries of many of the 

 coniferous bark- and wood-borers in the Western Himalaya, upon which 



* 'A Systematic Catalogue of Hisieridae . G. Lewis, F.L.S, (1905). 



