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It is rather small in size, convex and cylindrical in shape, 

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

 clothed with not very thick tawny pubescence. The head is 

 coarsely and confluently punctured, and the front margin of the 

 clypeus bears two sharp reflexed inner teeth and two feebler 

 outer ones. The pronotum is very convex and strongly punc- 

 tured, except near the basal margin, where it is only very finely 

 punctured. The scutellum is very minutely punctured, and the 

 elytra bear longitudinal lines of deep but uneven punctures ; 

 the subsutural interval is broad and irregularly punctured. The 

 pygidium is finely transversely rugulose and opaque. The meso- 

 sternum is scarcely produced. The outer claw of the middle and 

 hind tarsi is bifurcated. 



<$ . The body is shorter and less cylindrical in shape. The 

 pronotum is short, contracted in front and widest at the base. 

 The red elytral band sends two branches forward to the anterior 

 margin. 



5 . The pronotum is rather long and parallel- sided and much 

 more closely and rugosely punctured than in the male. The 

 elytra are more coarsely punctured and the red band is more 

 compact. The pygidium is clothed with short erect yellow 

 hair. 



Length, 14-16 mm. ; breadth, 8-9'5 mm. 



CEYLON : Dikoya, 3800-4200 ft. (G. Lewis, Dec.-Jan.), 

 Colombo. 



Type in the British Museum. 



11. Parastasia andamanica. 



Parastasin andamanica, Ohaus, Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1898, p. 13 ; Arrow, 

 Trans. Ent. Soc. Lend. 1899, p. 483, pi. xvii, figs. 7 & 8. 



Brick-red ( <5 ) or black ( $ ) above and beneath, with an orange 

 shoulder spot consisting of an oblique bar adjoining the scutellum 

 and a curved lobe extending from the middle of the bar to near 

 the outer margin. 



The form is cylindrical and convex. The head is densely rugose, 

 and the two apical teeth are short but sharp and placed close 

 together ; there is also a small tooth on each side of the head 

 above the antennal orbit. The pronotum is closely punctured all 

 over. The scutellum bears a few minute punctures, and the 

 elytra have a wide, irregularly punctured space near the suture 

 and rather close strongly punctured striae externally. The 

 pygidium is densely and minutely strigose. The mesosternum 

 is not produced. The legs are very short, and the outer claw of 

 the four posterior feet is cleft, the inner branch being much 

 shorter than the outer. 



cf . The ground-colour is brick-red. The prothorax is narrowed 

 anteriorly. 



$ . The ground-colour is black and the form more elongate. 



