PARASTASIA. PRUHSTORFERIA. 



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Fig. 13. — Parastasia 



ochracea. 



The insect is oval in shape, very smooth and shining, and 

 moderately convex. The head is scantily rugosely punctured, 

 and the clypeus broadly triangular witli its apical margin cleft 

 into two lobes, of which the points are reflexed and not sharp. 

 The eyes are not very close and the eye-ridges are feeble. The 

 ■clypeal suture is strongly marked. The pronotum is very scantily 

 and lightly punctured, with the lateral 

 margins rounded, the front angles nearly 

 right angles, the liind angles rather ob- 

 tuse, and the base broadly trisinuated. 

 The scutellum is broad and nearly smooth, 

 with rounded sides. The elytra are verv 

 smooth and shining, with rows of large 

 annular punctures, which are not as usual 

 straight and parallel, but contorted, the 

 black markings described being outlined 

 by them. The pygidium is very finely 

 punctured, and bears a few long hairs 

 toward the apex. The metasternum is 

 moderately thickly clothed with long 

 yellow hair, and the mesosternum is uot produced. The front 

 tibia bears three acute teeth, the two apical ones approximated. 

 The longer claw of each foot is minutely cleft at the tip. 



J . The antennae are rather long, the club nearly as long as 

 the footstalk. The front tarsus is a little thickened, and the 

 linner claw broad and twice as long as the outer. 

 The female is unknown. 

 Length, 16-5 mm. : breadth, 10'5 mm. 

 Sikkim: Darjiling; United Provinces : Allahabad (?). 

 Type in the British Museum. 



The contorted elytral striae of this insect are highly peculiar 

 and found in no other Lameilicoru beetle known to me. 



The locality Allahabad borrie by the type specimen from the 

 ■old Bowring Collection is probably due to an error. 



Genus FRUHSTORFERIA. 



Fruhstoyferia, Kolbe, Stett. Ent. Zeit. Iv, 1894, p. 3. 



Type, Fruhstorferia javana, Kolbe (Java). 



Range. Burma, Indo-China, Java. 



Body rather short and massive, broad, and not very convex. 

 Head moderately lai-ge, with the eyes wide apart and not very 

 prominent, and with more or less prominent ridges in front of 

 them. Antennae short, joints 3 to 7 very short, progressively 

 diminishing. Clypeus rather long, narrowed, with the front 

 margin entire. Pronotum broad, scarcely lobed behind. Pro- 

 sternum produced into a strongly-elevated vertical process behind 

 the front coxae. Mesosternum not produced. Legs rather short 

 and stout ; front tibia abruptly excised at the base internally and 

 .armed with three sharp teeth externally ; middle and hind'tibice 



