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GravEIvY : An Account of the Oriental Pc 



Regd. 



No. »' 



Bababudin Hills 





6191 

 19 



Coorg 





ÎU70 



Malabar 





9ß82 

 18 



High Range, Travaticore 





3460-70 

 19 



1^ Coonoor, ca. 6000 ft. (Sims Park, 

 ^ Jungle, and Stillbrook Garden) 





1d7H 



Ootacamund 





6500 ' 6669 

 19 19 



750fl' [Ootacamund, 7500 ft. and 7800 ft., 

 1^ December, 1912 

 ^Anamalais (Kalyana, Pandal, 3000 

 ft. ; Paralai Estate, 3600 ft.; Monica 



" 



1915-28 

 ^19" 



/ Estate, 4000 ft. ; Puddutottam, 4200 

 ft.; ca. 5500 ft., in rotten wood; all 

 Vjanuary 1912) 



223 



I T. Bainbrigge Fletcher. 



Trivandrum Museum. 

 >R. B. Seymour Sewell. 



Col. Beddome. 

 , T. Bainbrigge Fletcher. 



;T. Bainbrigge Fletcher. 



Description. — Length 24-29 mm. Differs from specimens of E. indicus of same 

 size in following characters only : lowest terminal and anterior lower teeth of left 

 mandible always distinct at base ; median keel of marginal depression of mentum when 

 present usually broad and flat, wider in front than behind, not sharply defined ; anterior 

 angles of Äßai of about 120°, never prominent ; apical angle of supra-orbital ridges 

 more pronounced ; lateral plates of lower side of prothorax somewhat smoother and 

 more highly polished towards the front; posterior plate of prosfemum usually hairy, 

 often punctured. Puncturing of scutellum variable in extent, but on a somewhat 

 different plan from that usually found in E. indicus^ the strongest punctures being 

 found in the posterior half of the plate which is often punctured almost all over 

 metasternum less markedly hairy than is usual in E. indicus. Posterior part of hind 

 coxae smoother. 



Habits. — Mr, T. Bainbrigge Fletcher tells me that "Most [specimens found at 

 Ootacamund in December, 1912J seemed to be adult beetles paired off (at least, two 

 individuals together, presumably of opposite sexes) as if just ready to start new 

 colonies. I only got one lot of larvae. The nights up there are frosty from Decem- 

 ber to March and tiie weather dry, and perhaps that has some influence on the 

 breeding season. Specimens found at lower elevations (4000-5000 ft.) where the 

 conditions are more uniform as regards temperature and humidity do not seem to be 

 seasonal, but apparently breed at any time, all stages being found." This species 

 does not seem to form colonies to the same extent as the preceding, judging from 

 what Mr. Fletcher has sent me. Capt. Sewell obtained this species from under 

 stones in Stillbrook Garden, Coonoor; those that he obtained from wood were all in 

 extremely rotten wood from which the bark was easily removed. For further notes 

 on this species see above (p. 221) under E. indicus. 



A series of small colonies (adults and larvae) each in a separate tube of spirit. 



