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Ôhira, H.: A list of the elaterid-beetles from South Asia preserved in the Hungarian Natural History Museum, Part IV. (Coleoptera)

Peetocera (Neopectoeera) nivea FLEUTIATJX, 1918 status nov. (Plate I, Fig. C; Plate II, Figs. I, J) Peetocera -nivea FLEUTIAUX, 1918, Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, 24: 213 (Madura). Male. Length 20 mm., breadth about 4.5 mm. Body slender and more or less depressed above; entirely reddish-brown and clothed with pale yellow pubescence all over. Head deeply and triangularly impressed between eyes; surface rather coarsely punctate and usually intermixed with minute punctures among larger ones. Pronotum trapezoid, without median longitudinal canaliculation. Scutellum small, usually having a shallow median longitudinal ridge. Elytra pointed at each apex; striae finely defined, but without punctures in the striae; intervals gently elevated, minutely punctate and scattered with larger ones among minuter ones. Antennae serrated from third segment. Specimens examined: 1 cf, Madura; 1 Q* 1 $, Trichinopoly

; 1 cf 1 9> Shembagamur. Distribution: India. Campsosternus delessertii GUÉRIN, 1840 (Plate I, Fig. D) Campsosternus Delessertii GUÉRIN, 1840, Bév. Zool. : 38 (Nilghiri). Campsosternus Delessertii: CANDÈZE, 1857, Mon. Elat., I: 352 (Sylhet, Cochinchine, Coromandel). Campsosternus Delessertii: CANDÈZE, 1874, Rév. Mon. Elat. : 200 (Nielgerrhies). Length 45 mm. Body robust and elongate, black and tinged with an aeneocupreous colour; head, pronotum, basal and outer areas of elytra and ventral surface of body clothed with fine cinereous pubescence. The general characters of this species closely resembles C. auratus (DRURY, 1773), but can be distinguished from the latter by the pronotum more finely punctulate especially at sides and provided with fine pubescence, the posterior angles of the pronotum divergent and more acutely projected behind. Specimen examined: 1 ex., Assam (Kohima), without exact date and collector. Distribution: India, Assam, Pakistan, Indo-China. Campsosternus orientális SZOMBATHY, 1909 (Plate I, Fig. E) Campsosternus orientális SZOMBATHY, 1909, Ann. Hist.-nat. Mus. Nat. Hung., 7: 121 (Assam). Length 35 mm. Body moderately elongate and strongly tinged with greenishblue lustre on over surface except at sides of pronotum, propleural areas and femora of legs which are cinnabar-red. A very beautiful species. Specimens examined : 2 exs., Assam (Shillong), without exact date and collector. Distribution : Assam.