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approximately 30 miles northeast of Huntsville, Alabama, at the 
margin of the Central Basin of Tennessee. The cave contains a per- 
ennial stream, is quite damp, and is inhabited by a large colony of 
bats ( Myotis grisescens Howell), upon whose excrement the beetles 
feed. 
P. fecundus is most closely allied to P. loedingi, from which it 
differs in having segment II of the antennae only 7/8 as long as III, 
instead of 7/9, and in having the elytral apices of the male rounded 
instead of subtruncate. P. hatchi inhabits the caves of eastern Frank- 
lin Co., Tennessee, at the base of the Cumberland Plateau. The 
Caney Hollow Cave is developed in Ordovician limestones immedi- 
ately below the Chattanooga shale. 
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