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The pronotum is much more convex than in the male and not 

 narrowed anteriorly. 



Length, 1:3-13 mm. ; breadth, 7'5-8 mm. 



Andaman Is. {lioepstorff, Atl-inson, Wimherley). 



Type in Dr. F. Oliaus' collection. 



12. Parastasia confluens. 



Farastasid conjluensj Westw.,* Ann. Mag. Nat, Hist, viii, 1841, 

 p. 304. 



Light mahogany colour ( J ) or deep brown ( $ ), with an 

 irregular-shaped lighter patch before the middle of each elytroii. 



Cylindrical and convex, with the legs exceedingly short. The 

 head is densely granulated, the pronotum strongly gibbous and 

 very I'ugose, witli a median longitudinal groove. The lateral 

 margins bulge strongly in the middle, and all the angles are 

 obtuse. The scutellum is very finely and sparingly punctured, 

 and the elytra bear distinct and entii'e punctured striae. The 

 pygidium is very finely and densely rugulose. The sternum, 

 coxae and femora are clothed with rather close, but short, 

 tawny setse. 



(5 . Chestnut-red, with the elytra lighter in colour, each having 

 on the anterior half a rather indefinite yellow patch, near the 

 anterior edge of which is a small black spot. The pronotum 

 is produced into a short neck behind the head. The elytra 

 are very shining, with lightly impressed striae, and not very 

 long, and the pygidium is nearly vertical. The front claws 

 are simple and the outer claw of the four posterior feet divided, 

 that of the middle ones broad. 



§ . Very dark brown, with a small three-lobed yellow spot, 

 surrounded by a black margin, upon the anterior half of each 

 elytron. The pronotum is not narrowed in front, the elytra are 

 longer and deeply striated, the pygidium oblique and prominent, 

 and all the claws simple. 



Lewjtk, 12-16 mm.; breadth, 7-8 mm. 



NicoBAR Is. {RoeiJstorff) ; Malay Peninsula ; Sumatra ; 

 Borneo ; Java ; Celebes ; Tiivior ; Bouru ; Philippine Is. 



Type in the British Museum. 



18. Parastasia heterocera. 



Parastasia heterocera, Ohaus, Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1898, p. 27, 



Black and shining, usually with the elytra or their posterior 

 part blood-red. 



The body is rather short and broad, and slightly depressed. 

 The head is closely rugose, with a slight longitudinal median 

 groove, the clypeus greatly reduced and armed at the extremity 

 with two well-developed reflexed teeth. The pronotum is strongly 



