new Species of Khtendx. 77 



Tnjpeticus crassus, Sch., 1892. 

 Tn/peticus bifoveoUttus, Lew., ]803. 



Schmidt recorded that the male of this species was in my 

 collection and came from Perak. The specimen referred to 

 is in the British Museum and belonged to the late Mr. Fry's 

 collection. 1 think now that the deep fovesein the pygidium 

 o{ b'lforeolatiis is not a specific character, as I have seen five 

 examples without them, and ray name therefore must fall 

 into the synonymy. 



Teretrius prcedaior, sp. n. 



Cylindricus, niger. nitidus, sat dense punctatus ; prostcrno pimctato, 

 striis parallelis ; mesostcrno sparpc puiictato ; propj-gidio pygidio- 

 que modice dense punctatis ; pedibus brunueo-ferrugineis ; tibiis 

 anticis iutus ciliatis. 



L. 3] mill. 



Cylindrical, black and sliining, evenly and somewhat 

 densely punctured above ; the forehead convex ; the thorax, 

 lateral stria sinuous before the base, continuing, but finer, 

 behind the head ; the pygidium is convex, surface micro- 

 scopically strigose and evenly punctured, punctures not very 

 close ; the prostcrnum rather closely punctured, punctures 

 rather large and shallow ; the mesosternum is markedly 

 marginate, and with the metasternum and first abdominal 

 segment (all similarly) sparsely and somewhat finely punc- 

 tured ; the anteiior tibise are 10-11-dentate, with a few 

 flavous hairs at the tarsal end on the inner edge, intermediate 

 7-8-, posterior 4-5-spiuose. 



This species is much less robust than piUmanus, ]\Iars., 

 but the surface punctuation is closely similar. Some 

 examples have on the first abdominal segment a lineal 

 arrangement of punctures which correspond to the striai that 

 I have noticed in cesiivus. 



Hub. Senegal and Central Africa. In the Paris Museum 

 and my own collection. 



Teretrius cesiivus, Lew. Ann. & ^lag. Nat. Hist. xv. p. 470 



(1885). 



In the Catalogue of 1905 I placed this name in error as a 

 synonym of T. punctulatus, Falir. The prosternal striie are 

 not, as I stated, divergent except at the anterior tips, and 

 there is a marked specific character in a lateral longitudinal 

 stria on the first abdominal se^rment. 



