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Eight new species of the tribe Quasimusini Schimmel et Tarnawski, 2009 from China, Indonesia, and Himalaya (Bhutan and Sikkim) are described and illustrated. New records on two known species from Laos are given. Wittmeroquasimus irianjayensis sp. nov. is the first of the genus Wittmeroquasimus, and Striatoquasimus carinatissimus sp. nov. is the second species of the genus Striatoquasimus recorded from Indonesia. Keys to the species of the genus Wittmeroquasimus from China and from Himalaya are provided. New species: Quasimus wrasei sp. nov., Striatoquasimus carinatissimus sp. nov., Wittmeroquasimus fujianensis sp. nov.

Eight new species of the tribe Megapenthini from the Indonesian island Sulawesi are described and illustrated: Abelater bosi sp. nov., A. buechei sp. nov., A. dongalaensis sp. nov., A. jakubi sp. nov., Cateanus sulawesiensis sp. nov., Friedrichiellus bosi sp. nov., Simodactylus saetosus sp. nov., and Xanthopenthes dongalaensis sp. nov. New records of further eight species of the tribe Megapenthini from Sulawesi are given. Abelater brandti Schimmel, 2004, and A. jaechi Schimmel, 2004 are recorded from this island for the first time.

Eight new species of the Tribe Megapenthini Gurjeva, 1973 from China, Laos, and from the Philippines are described and illustrated: Cateanus kucerai sp. nov., Friedrichiellus luzonensis sp. nov., Gamepenthes kresli sp. nov., G. phoupa- nensis sp. nov. ,G.shinuishanensis sp. nov., G. turnai sp. nov., Megapenthes jintan- gensis sp. nov., Procraerus kresli sp. nov. A key to the species of the genus Game- penthes Fleutiaux, 1928 from China, and one from Laos and Vietnam is provided, zoogeo- graphical and taxonomical remarks as well as a discussion on the phylogenetic importance of some characters of the species and their ecobiotic life are given.

Eleven new species of the genera Chinathous and Gnathodicrus from China, Laos, Nepal and Sikkim (North India) are described and illustrated: Chinathous heinzi sp. nov., C. jitiangensis sp. nov., C. juizhaigouensis sp. nov., C. moxiensis sp. nov., C. xinjiangensis sp. nov., Gnathodicrus daliangshanensis sp. nov., G. dehongdaiensis sp. nov., G. laoticus sp. nov., G. nepalensis sp. nov., G. vietnamensis sp. nov., G. zhongdianensis sp. nov., Chinathous lizipingensis (Schimmel et Tarnawski, 2006) is introduced as comb. nov. Gnathodicrus nepalensis sp. nov. is recorded as the first species of the genus Gnathodicrus from Himalaya (Nepal and North India).