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Genus PARADIBOLIA. 
Corpus ovato-rotundatum. Caput breve, thoraci in to- 
tum insertum; antennis filiformibus, 11-articulatis; carind 
male definita; encarpe distincte ; oculis magnis, subreni- 
formibus, planis, apice fere contiguis. Thorax transversus, 
lateribus fere rectis, a basi ad apicem convergentibus. 
Elytra thorace vix latiora, confuse punctata, obsolete 
sulcato-striata. Pedes: coxis anticis transversis, prosterno 
equialtis; femoribus posticis valde incrassatis; ¢tibiis 
quatuor anticis apice muticis ; t¢biis posticis dorso canali- 
culatis, apice spina lata, apice truncata armatis: ; unguiculis 
appendiculatis. Prosternum elevatum, antrorsum produc- 
tum, postice rotundatum, non dilatatum; acetabulis anticis 
late apertis. Mesosternum obliquum, apice concayo- 
marginatum, prosterno fere occultatum.  Metasternum 
inter mesocoxas fere ad prosternum protensum, mesosterni 
apici insertum. 
Type, Paradibolia indica. 
Paradibolia is very closely allied to Dibolia, but may 
be at once known by the very large subcontiguous eyes 
aud by the short subrotundate form. 
Paradibolia indica. 
Subrotundata, convexa, nitida, subtus fulva, supra 
viridi-cerulea, metallica, facie inferiori antennisque fulvis; 
elytris tenuiter crebre punctatis, striis nonnullis obsolete 
sulcatis instructis. 
Long. 2 lin. 
Hab.—India. 
Head small, rotundate, completely Waveds in the thorax; 
encarp trigonate, contiguous above; front narrow, wedge- 
shaped ; eyes very large, flat, somewhat kidney-shaped, 
nearly contiguous at the apex; antenne half the length 
of the body. ‘Thorax more than twice as broad as long, 
subeylindrical, finely rugose-punctate, nitidous. LElytra 
finely rugose-punctate, obsoletely sulcate-striate. 
