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F. H. Gravely : An Account of the Oriental Passalidae. 223 



T Baiiibrigge P'letcher. 



Bababudiu Hills 

 Coorg 

 Malabar 



High Range, Travancore 

 ( Coonoor, ca. 6000 ft. (Sims Park, 

 \ Jungle, and Stillbrook Garden) 

 Ootacamund 

 [Ootacamund, 7500 ft. and 7S00 ft., 

 \^ December, 191 2 ) 



, Auamalais (Kalyana, Pandal, 3000 , 

 ft. ; Paralai Estate, 3600 ft.; Monica | 

 / Estate, 4000 ft.; Puddutottam, 4200 -T. Bain 



it.; ca. 5500 ft., in rotten wood; all 

 I January 1912) 



Trivandruui Museum. 



R. B. Seymour Sewel!. 



Cul. Beddome. 



T. Bainbrigge Fletcher. 



brigge Fletcher. 



Description.— Length 24-29 mm. Differs from specimens of E. indiciis of same 

 size in following characters only: lowest terminal and anterior lower teeth of left 

 mandible always distinct at base; median keel of marginal depression of mentum when 

 present usually broad and fiat, wider in front than behind, not sharply defined ; anterior 

 angles of Aefli of about 120°, never prominent ; apical angle of supra-orbital ridges 

 more pronounced ; lateral plates, of lower side of prothorax somewhat smoother and 

 more highly polished towards the front; posterior plate of prosfernum usually hairy, 

 often punctured. Puncturing of scUtellum variable in extent, but on a somewhat 

 different plan from that usually found in E. indiciis, the strongest punctures being 

 found in the posterior half of the plate which is often punctured almost all over 

 metasterniim less markedly hairy than is usual in E. indicus. Posterior part of hind 

 coxae smoother. 



Habits.— Wr. T. Bainbrigge Fletcher tells me that "Most [specimens found at 

 Ootacamund in December, 191 2 J seemed to be adult beetles paired off (at least, two 

 individuals together, presumably of opposite sexes) as if just ready to start new 

 colonies. I only got one lot of larvae. The nights up there are frosty from Decem- 

 ber to March and the weather dry, and perhaps that has some influence on the 

 breeding season. Specimens found at lower elevations (4000-5000 ft.) where the 

 conditions are more uniform as regards temperature and humidity do not seem to be 

 seasonal, but apparently breed at any time, all stages being found." This species 

 does not' seem to form colonies to the same extent as the preceding, judging from 

 what Mr. Fletcher has sent me. Capt. Sewell obtained this species from under 

 stones in Stillbrook Garden, Coonoor; those that he obtained from wood were all in 

 extremely rotten wood from which the bark was easily removed. For further notes 

 on this species see above (p. 221) under E. indicus. 



A series of small colonies (adults and larvae) each in a separate tube of spirit. 



