PHL^OBIDA. 107 



Genus PHLiEOBIDA. 



Phlceohicla, Bolivar, Ami. Soc. Ent. France, Ixx, 1902, p. 592. 

 Type, Parajyldieoha angustipennis, Bol. 



llange. India. 



Body moderately long and moderately compi-essed. Eastigiuin 

 of the vertex triangular, with the lateral carina? obtuse and 

 continned as a sliorfc carina behind each eye ; foveolfe imperfectly 

 developed ; vertex with a median carina extending from the base 

 to the end of the fastigium ; face sloping, frontal ridge between 

 the antennte moderately elevated, smooth, then sulcated, the 

 marginal carina3 somewhat expanded at the base, slightly 

 approximating at the ocelhis, and diverging towards the clypeus. 

 Antennae with the basal half depressed, much longer than the 

 head and pronotum together in the male, and scarcely so long 

 in the female. Pronotum tricariiiate above, with the latei'al 

 carinas almost parallel ; truncated in front, and convex behind, 

 "with a transverse sulcus intersecting the carinje behind the 

 middle. Tegmina very short, narrow, neaily parallel-sided, and 

 rounded at the tips ; wings obsolete. Hind femora long, smooth 

 externally. Mesosternal lobes united by a space nearly equal 

 to their breadth, subcontiguous behind in the male, and slightly 

 separated in the female. Eirst abdominal segment with an open 

 tympanum ; abdomen compressed, carinatecl above ; subgenital 

 lamina in the male shortly acuminate ; valves of the ovipositor 

 short. 



123. Phlaeobida angustipennis, Bol. 



ParapJilceoba (tngvstipennis, Bolivar, Anu. Soc. Ent. France, Ixx, 

 1902, pp. 592, 593, pi. ix, fig. 30. 



Pale reddish, punctured Avitli brown and with grey pubescence; 

 a broad brown stripe running from the eyes to the tip of the 

 abdomen ; or the head and pronotum not striped. Fastigium of 

 the vertex oblong or triangular, with the margins obtuse and 

 punctured, and furnished w ith indistinct triangular foveoloe ; 

 vertex with a slight median carina, obsolete behind. Pronotum 

 angularly excised behind, the lateral carinae almost parallel as far 

 as the hind sulcus, Avhich is situated much beiiind the middle, and 

 then widely diverging. Tegmina narrow, the margins parallel, 

 and the tip rounded. Lobes of the mesosternum separated by a 

 rather narrow space ; the metasternal lobes contiguous behind 

 the foveolaj in the male, and slightly separated in the female. 

 Hind femora banded with brown externally. 



(5. Length 15 mm.; pronotum, 2-8 mm. ; tegmina, 2'5 mm. ; 

 bind femur, 9 mm. 



$. Length 24 mm.; pronotum, 4"5 mm.; tegmina, 3"5 mm.; 

 hind femur, 13 mm. 



Madkas : Trichiuopoly. 



Tgpes in the collection of St. Joseph's College, Trichiuopoly. 



