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Darlington — Chlaenius 
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Fig. 1. Chlaenius timorensis n. sp., holotype. 
Fig. 2. Chlaenius greensladei n. sp., holtoype. 
Notes. The very short, subtransverse mandibles, as well as other 
characters of this insect, place it in the Chlaenius tetragonoderus 
group. The present new species differs from the others of the group 
as indicated in the preceding key. 
Chlaenius greensladei n. sp. 
Fig. 2 
Description. Form as in Fig. 2, rather depressed; black, append- 
ages dark; rather shining, pubescence very short, virtually obsolete 
except at sides of elytra; head with punctures fine, close, of mixed 
sizes; pronotum with punctures close and of mixed sizes laterally, 
slightly more sparse in areas near middle; elytra with punctures not 
dense, sparser on inner intervals anteriorly; reticulate microsculpture 
between punctures absent on head, fine and light on pronotum and 
elytra. Head 0.67 and 0.68 width prothorax; details c. as in pre- 
ceding species ( timorensis ). Prothorax : width/length 1.33 and 
1.32; base/apex 1.27 and 1.23; other details c. as in preceding 
species (timorensis) except punctation of disc sparser especially near 
middle and punctures of mixed sizes. Elytra: width elytra/prothorax 
1.30 and 1.3 1 ; striae deeper than in preceding {timorensis') ; in- 
tervals convex, irregularly rather sparsely punctate, the punctures 
sparser anteriorly on inner intervals. Lower surface: prosternal 
