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AND 



MAGxlZIiNE OF NATURAL mSTOEY. 



[NINTH SICIUICS.] 

 No. 65. MAY 1923. 



LX. — New or imperfectly knoivn Corythoderini from British 

 India [Coleoptera]. By G. C. Champion, F.Z.S., A.L.S., 

 and E. Wasmann, S.J., Hou.F.E.S., Dr.Pli.ILC. 



[Plate YI.l 



Introduction. 



This paper is based upon a study of various Indian Corytlio- 

 derini belonging to Group Y. of Schmidt's arrangement of the 

 Aphodiinie, the species of which are enumerated by him in 

 part 20 of Junk's ^ Coleopterorum Catalogus/ 1910. The 

 material examined includes that belonging to the British 

 ]\Juseum, the Hope Collection at Oxford (in which West- 

 wood's types of CJicetopistJies fulvus are to be found)_, and 

 the Andrewes Collection^ supplemented by three species 

 captured by my eldest son "at light" at Tanakpur, 

 Kumaon, in May 1921 — about 40 specimens in all. 



The sexes of these insects, with one exception^ liave 

 hitherto been imperfectly understood, owing to lack of 

 material. The S , as stated by AVasmaun in his description 

 of C. heimi, has the head broader and more distinctly 

 bisinuate in front than in the ? . 



The tuft or fringe of hairs at the apex of the elytra is 

 common to the two sexes. Stcnocoryt/iodcrus has the elytra 



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