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characters : the very short and broad scutelhim, and the clypeus 

 almost in the same plane as the forehead and not separated" from 

 it by a carina. The male is closely similar to that of P. tmicolor. 

 Arrow, the female of which is also distinguished by much more 

 strongly impressed dorsal striae and a still more striking difference 

 in colour. In P. mirabilis. Arrow, I have also called attention to 

 similar sexual differences, including a longer mesosternal process 

 in the female. 



17. Parastasia alternata. 



Parastasia alternata, Arrow, Trans. Ent. Sec. Lond. 1899, p. 489. 

 Orange-red, with the head, scutellum, the basal third of the 

 elytra, the legs, and lower surface of the body black. The pro- 

 notum has an extremely narrow black marginal line all round it. 



It is a moderately short, compact and very convex iusect, very 

 smooth and shining, with a clothing of rather short brownish hair 

 at the sides of the metasternum. The clypeus is rugose and 

 armed with t«o sharp recurved teeth in front, the forehead 

 coarsely punctured, the eyes small, and the antenna? short. The 

 proiiotum is thinly and minutely punctured, very narrow in 

 front, with the sides strongly rounded in the middle and nearly 

 straight in front and behind, the front angles very obtuse, the 

 hind angles nearly right angles, and the base gentlv trisinuated. 

 The scutellum is almost unpunctured, and the elytra bear a 

 subsutural line and three or four rather wide pa'irs of faint 

 punctures, with similar scattered punctures in the intervals. 

 The mesosternum forms a very slightly produced sharp point! 

 The front tibia is armed with three sharp teeth, of which the twa 

 posterior ones are close together. 



d' . Cylindrical, with the hind femora and all the tibia? more 

 slender than in the female, the outer claw of the middle and hind 

 feet deeply cleft, and the pygidium minutely and scantily punctured. 

 2 . The body is shorter and broader, with all the claws entire, 

 and the pygidium short and broad and strongly and coarsely 

 punctured. 



Length, 18-20 mm.; breadth, 10-5-12 mm. 

 United Provinces : Allahabad (?) ; Assam : Khasi Hills. 

 Type in the British Museum. 



Like P. ochracea, this species was originally reported as 

 inhabiting Allahabad, upon the authority of an old specimen 

 from the Bowring Collection in the British Museum. Dr. Jordan 

 has received it from the Khasi Hills, and I have little doubt that 

 the other locality is incorrect. 



18. Parastasia luteola. 



Lutera luteola, Westw.,* Trans. Ent. See. Lond. 1875, p. 236. ul 8 

 %. 2. yv ,i> 



Straw-coloured, with the extreme margins of the head, prothorax, 

 scutellum and elytra, the divisions of the sternum and abdomen,. 



