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parts of the Old World. The insects are cryptobiotic in habits, and 
are small and inconspicuous, so we may look forward to the discovery 
of species elsewhere in the Old World. 
Another interesting thing about the new species is its close conver- 
gence in many morphological details to Talaridris ?nandihularis Weber 
(tribe Basicerotini) of Trinidad and British Guiana (see Brown and 
Kempf, i960, Stud. Ent., Petropolis, (n.s .)j: 233, 241-242). 
