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I happen to have seen the types of both these species, which, 

 as indicated by Chaudoir, are identical, so that I feel no doubt 

 about the identification. 



1 have seen examples from various localities in India from 

 Nepal to Madura, generally one at a time. There is an example 

 from Ratnagiri in the Indian Museum. 



2 ex. {N. Annandale). "Common in deserted termites 

 galleries in dead wood." 



31. Omphra atrata, Klug. 



Jahyb. Ins. 1834, 72. 



Many examples taken " with termites on path under dead 

 leaves." I don't think this genus has been mentioned hitherto as 

 having been found in association with termites. One or two 

 specimens were also received in spirit, taken by Mr. Gravely in 

 holes under stones, along with a number of oval whitish bodies 

 (3'o mm. in length), which show no structural characters and which 

 may be the eggs of the beetle. 



I have put a name to this species with hesitation, for I have 

 not seen the type and the description leaves a good deal of room 

 for doubt. The specimens agree fairlj- veil, however, with one 

 determined by Chaudoir as King's species. 



Many ex. (iV. Annandale and F. H. Gravely). 



32. Pheropsophus tripustulatus, F. 



Ent. Syst. i, 1792, 145. 



A single example, which differs slightly from the type and 

 seems to form a link with P. ciirtus Arrow {Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 

 igoi, 204, t. 9, f. 3). From the type it differs only in the reduced 

 apical patch on the elytra, from curtus in the absence of the dark 

 frontal spot and also of the dark colour at the apex of the femora. 

 It is quite possible that these forms may prove to be one species, 

 which in that case would bear Fabricius' name. P. tripustulatus 

 was said by its author to come from Siam, but the type bears no 

 label to that effect; P. curtus was described from Malabar and N. 

 Kanara. 



I ex. {N. Annandale). 



3.?. Orthogonius sp. 



This seems to be closely allied to 0. fugax, Chaud., described 

 from a single example taken by Nietner in Ceylon. Although 

 numerous species of this genus have been described from the East, 

 only about half a dozen of these came from India itself, and this 

 represents only a fraction of those awaiting description. 



3 ex. (N. Annandale and Chilka Survey). 



34. Coptodera transversa, Schm. Goeb. 



Faun. Col. Birm. 1846, 54. 

 Chaudoir has published a Monograph on this group, but I 

 think that both he and Bates have misidentified some of the 



