DICAtJLOCEPHALUS. — PAEASXASIA. 35 



Proat tibiae trideutate externally, the two apical teeth close 

 together. Middle and hind tibiae spiuose externallv. Tarsi very- 

 short, the fifth joint of the front foot larger and the outer claw 

 thickened and simple. Outer claw of the middle and hind feet 

 cleft." 



Only a single species of Dicavlocephahis is known and of that 

 the female has not yet been found, t\A'o males only representing the 

 insect up to the present time. I am indebted to l)r. Gestro for 

 providing me M'ith a carefully drawn figure of the type. The 

 relationship to Peperonota is very close and the female will 

 probably show a very great resemblance to that of F. harringtoni. 

 The male differs in the remarkable lateral appendages of the 

 mandibles, the absence of a thoracic process and of posterior 

 tubercles on the head, the acute ante-ocular ridges, and the 

 broader and narx-ower elytral depression adjoining the scutellum. 



S. Dicaulocephalus feae. (Plate I, tig. 1.) 



Dicatdocephalus fere, Gestro, Ann. Mus. Civ. Geneva, (2) v, 1888, 

 p. 626. 



" Testaceous yellow, with the head nearly black ; the pronotum 

 shining, puiictulated, and decorated with irregular, vague, 

 nebulous markings ; the elytra opaque, punctulated, marked only 

 with a dark spot on the apical callus ; the teeth and spines of 

 the legs black, the tarsi pitchy black, with the terminal joint 

 and claws pitciiy ; the body clothed beneath with long yellow 

 hair." 



Length, 24 mm. 



Burma : Plapoo, Mt. Mooleyit, 3000-5700 ft. {L. Fea, March- 

 April). 



Type in the Genoa Museum. 



Genus PARASTASIA. 



Parastasia, Westw., Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist, viii, 1841, p. 204 ; id., 



Trans. Ent. tSoc. Lond. iv, 1845, p. 91 ; Arrow, Trans. Ent. Soc. 



Lond. 1899, p. 479; Ohaiis, Deutsche Ent. Zeits. 1900, p. 225. 

 Rutelarcha, Waterh., Ent. Men. Mag. xi, 1874, p. 52. — Type, 



P. quadrunaculata,^^iitevh. (n. syn.). 

 Lutera,W esiw., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1876, p. 236. — Type, L. luteola, 



Westw. (u. syn.). 

 Ci/pkeli/tra, Waterh., Cist. Ent. i, 1875, p. 367. — Type, C. ochracea, 



Waterli. (n. syn.). 

 Poli/ma2ckt(s, Lee, Proc. Acad. Pliilad. viii, 1856, p. 24. — Type, 



P. brevipes, Lee. (n. syn.). 



Type, Parastasia canaliculata, Westw. (Philippine Is.). 



Range. India, Ceylon, Malay Archipelago, Japan, Polynesia, 

 North America, 



The form is stout and massive, with short legs. The head is 

 small, the clypeus very small, terminating in two reflexed teeth 

 or lobes. The mandibles are long and exposed at the tips, which 



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