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Persia septentr.: montes Kopet-dagh (F. Häuser!). — Octo 

 specimina 69- ab Edm. Reitter nec non a C. Rost sub nomine 

 «i. crenuïatiis Gebl.» accepta (coll. P. a Semenow; coll. B. E. 

 Jakowlew). 



Synopsis specieriim siibgeneris Microlethrus Sem. ^). 



1 (4). Mandibula sinistra plicâ acuta anteapicali marginem lateralem sub- 



deflexum tangente plagamque extrorsum prominentem ad mandibulae 

 apicem sitam occludente; mandibula dextra plicâ anteapicali subti- 

 liore, etsi abbreviatâ, tamen marginem lateralem etiam tangente. 

 Pronotum grosse subdisperse punctatum. Elytra epipleuris paulo 

 ante angulum suturalem evanescentibus, apice subapertis. Color su- 

 perficiel nigro-cyaneus vel caerulescens, nitore cupreo vcl aeneo 

 nullo. 



2 (3). Magnitudo minor (long. SQ 7 — 14, sed plerumque 8 — 12 mm.). 



Caput sat parce obsoleteque punctatum, foveis verticinis determina- 

 tis nullis. Coleoptera obsolete striata, {jpice in $ conjunctim subpor- 

 recta angulumque fere acutum efficientia (in $ conjunctim obtuse 

 subrotundata). 



Hah. in Turkestania occidentali: circum Samarkand (A. Fed- 

 tschenko, 27. II, 7 & 16. III. 1869, teste Solsky; J. Haber- 

 hauer, teste Kraatz; collector anonymus D-ris Staudinger!; 

 D. Glasunow! III. 1892; L. Barschtschewsky! V. 1896), Tair- 

 teich (N. Sokolow! IG. IV. 1897), Urgut (D. Glasunow, 21. Y. 

 1892, teste Kosliantschikow), montes Nuratà: Uchum et Sintab 

 (D. Glasunow! 1. V & 27. IV. 1892), Dsliisak (D. Glasunow, 4. 

 IV. 1892, teste Koshantschikow), Chodshent (teste Ballion), 

 Margelan? (teste Kraatz); nec non in Bucharia occidentali: Kainar 

 (D. Glasunow! 14. III. 1892), Hum-kala (D. Glasunow! 5. V. 

 1892). 



Synonymon: l Lethrus cremilatus Solsky 1876 (ex parte). 



1. L. pygmaeus Bail. 1876 2). 



1) Cf. A. Semenow: Horae Soc. Eot. Ross., XXA'III, 1894, pp. 476, 479. 



2) Ballion: Bull. Soc. Nat. Mose. 1870, II, p. 337; Solsky: Путеш. въ 

 Туркест. Федчснко, Сок, II, 1870, стр. 379 {L. cremdutus ex parte); Kraatz: 

 Deutsch. Ent. Zeitscbr. 1882, p. 302; Reitter: Deutsch. Ent. Zeitschr. 1890, 



