PABASTASIA. 39" 



BUEMA ; S.W. CHINA: Yunnan; Is DO-CHINA: Kiang-Kwang 

 (R. Vitalia de Salvaza, March). 

 Type in the Britisli Museum. 



9. Parastasia basalis. 



Parastasia basalis, Cand.,* Coleopt. Hefte, v, 1869, p. 44. 

 Parastasiu duponti, Arrow, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1899, p. 484 



(n. syn.). 

 Parastasia binotata, Burm., Handb. Ent. iv, 1, 1844, p. 374. 



Black, with the prouotum sometimes blood-red or very dark 

 pitchy red, the abdomen generally pitchy red, and an orange- 

 coloured transverse baud crossing the base of the elytra, occupying 

 rather less than half their length and extending almost to the 

 outer margins posteriorly, but not anteriorly. 



The body is parallel-sided, cylindrical and elongate. It is very 

 smooth and shiniug above, and the sides of the body beneath are 

 clothed with a short tawny pubescence. The head is coarsely 

 and irregularly punctured and armed along the front margin of 

 the clypeus with four sharp reflexed teeth, the two middle ones 

 being longer and nearer together than the other two, which 

 occupy the ends of the clypeal suture. The pronotum is very 

 transverse and globose and is rather closely and irregularly 

 punctured, except along the basal margin. The scutellum bears 

 only a few very fine punctures, and the elytra are quite smooth in 

 the female and bear a few inconspicuous imperfect punctured 

 striae and numerous fine irregular punctures near the suture. The 

 mesosternum projects a very little beyond the middle coxae as 

 a broad sharp-pointed process. The outer claw of the middle and 

 hind feet is bifurcated. 



cS . The orange elytral band occupies the anterior third of the 

 length. The prothorax is a little produced behind the head and 

 the pronotum is widest at the hind angles. The pygidiuin is very 

 finely and densely transversely strigose. 



$ . The orange band occupies nearly half the length of the 

 elytra. The sides of the pronotum are nearlv parallel behind, 

 and the pygidiuin is thinly clothed with erect tawny pubescence. 



Length, 17-18 mm. ; breadth, 9-10 mm. 



CEYLON: Peradeniya (E. E. Green, Oct.), Kandy (E. E. G., 

 Nov.), Anurhadapura (E. E. G., April), Kelani Valley, near 

 Colombo (W. Braine) ; MADRAS: Sanivarsaudai, 4000 ft., Coorg 

 (T. V. Ramakrighna, April), Shevaroy Hills, Yerkaud, 4500 ft. 

 (T. V. E.). 



Type in the Brussels Museum. 



10. Parastasia cingala. 



Parastasia cinyala, Arrow,* Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1899, p. 482. 

 Black or deep brown, with the pronotum and a. narrow 

 irregular transverse band crossing the elytra before the middle^ 

 bright vermilion-red. 



