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53. Teretriosoma rajah, n. sp. 



Cylindricus, suhelongatus, brunneus, nitidus; antennis pedibusque 

 rufis; prosterno mesosternoque punctato hand striatis; tibiis anticis 

 intus flavo-ciliatis. Long. 2 Y^ mill. 



Cylindrical, somewhat short, brown in the dorsal region with 

 anterior angles, lateral margins of the thorax and parts of the 

 elytral margins reddish, beneath reddish brown with metaster- 

 num darker. Head slightly convex, distinctly but not thickly nor 

 coarsely punctured, not striate ; thorax similarly punctured in 

 front but behind more coarsely especially before the scutellum, 

 stria entire but extremely fine behind the head ; elytra less 

 closely punctate than the thorax ; propygidium and pygidium 

 evenly and more thickly punctured, the latter most convex in 

 the centre with the lower half a little, yet almost imperceptibly, 

 flattened; presternum thickly punctured without striae (generic 

 character); mesosternum transversely and coarsely punctured, 

 the anterior projection being nearly smooth ; metasternum more 

 sparsely punctured especially in the middle ; anterior tibiae 5-6 

 dentate, ciliate on the inner edge near the tarsi, posterior spinous. 



I have placed this species in Teretriosoma according to the 

 view 1 took of the genus in the Ent. Mon. Mag. , p. 397, in 

 1889. I consider that all the species described as Teretrius 

 without prosternai striae should be included in it and that the 

 " double „ pygidium is of minor importance as it varies greatly 

 in different species , from that figured for T. conigerum , Lew. in 

 the Biologia to an impression which is hardly observable. Tere- 

 ti'ius intrusuSj Mars, is a Teretriosoma^ and so also under this 

 definition are T, feae^ Lew. and T. cylindricum^ Well. 



Hab. Garin Gheba 900-1100 m. 



