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BOTHRIDES SP. 
Reference :—Provisionally named as Bothrides sp. by Mr. C. O. Waterhouse 
of the British Museum, to which collection the insect is new. 
Classification :—Order, COLEOPTERA. Family, Colydiide. 
The deetle is narrow, elongate, parallel, shining, and light 
brown in colour above and below. The head is largish and pro- 
trudes beyond the prothorax ; eyes round and fairly prominent ; 
antennz end in a terminal club. - Prothorax a little separated . 
from elytra, squarish; head and prothorax strongly punctate 
above, Elytra deeply ridged longitudinally and punctate be- 
tween the stria. Legs light brown; tarsi 4-jointed, none of 
joints being broad; hind coxe are separated, fore and middle 
ones close to one another ; five visible ventral segments. Slen- 
der, active insects ; very quick in their movements. (PI. I, fig. 6). 
3 Life history. 
The beetles, which are predaceous, were found in the same 
places as the Zeretriosomas above described, and were more 
especially abundant in the galleries containing numerous S, 
anale larve; it is not improbable that their attacks are con- 
fined to these latter, and perhaps to their pupe. | 
The notes given under “area from which reported,’’ “ rela- 
tions to forest” and “ protection ” for the Teretriosomas apply 
equally here, 
Potnts tn the life histortes requiring further observation :— 
1. Female insects of the Zeretrzosomas have yet to be 
discovered, 
2. The larvz of all these predaceous beetles are yet un- 
known. i 
3. We require to know when the eggs are laid and 
where, and on what the larve feed. 
4. The pupal stages are still unknown. 
5. The number of generations in the year, and whether 
these correspond in number with those of the 
insects they live upon. 
. Whether they prey upon the imago stages of the 
Stuoxylon as well as the larval ones. 
. How and where they pass the winter. 
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