PARASTASIA. 43- 



Length, 13-16 mm.; breadth, 8-9 mm. 



ANDAMAN and NICOHAR Is. (Rocpgtorff); BURMA: Eangoon ;. 

 MALAY PENINSULA; SUMATUA ; BORNEO; CELEBES; GILOLO; 

 TERNATE ; CERAM ; NEW GUINEA ; SOLOMON Is. 



15. Parastasia indica. 



Parastasia indica, Ohaus, Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1898, p. 9; id., Deutsche 

 Ent. Zeils. 1900, p. 256. 



Purplish black, with a large roundish bright yellow patch in 

 each hind angle of the pronotum. 



It is small, shortly oval, convex, and very smooth and shining. 

 The vertex of the head is strongly punctured, and the clypeus 

 and forehead are rugose. The clypeus is nearly semicircular in 

 shape, with the front margin produced into two rather blunt 

 reflexed lobes. The pronotum is rather coarsely punctured in 

 front, more sparingly in the middle, and almost smooth near 

 the hind angles ; the lateral margins are angulated near the 

 middle and the front and hind angles are obtuse. The scutellum 

 is short and almost free from punctures, and the elytra have 

 each five well-marked longitudinal lines of fine punctures, the 

 second interval broad and irregularly punctured, the fourth mode- 

 rately broad and divided by an incomplete series of punctures. 

 The pygidium is rugosely punctured and shining in the median 

 part, more closely rugose at the sides. The sides of the body 

 beneath are finely rugose and scantily hairy, and the mesosternum 

 is produced into a short but rather sharp process. 



d 1 . The longer claw is cleft on all the feet, the front and 

 middle tarsi are rather thick, the last joint enlarged, and the 

 lower lobe of the outer middle claw is broad and blunt. 



$ . The sculpture of the head and pronotum is coarser and 

 closer, and the latter has a slight longitudinal channel in front. 



Length, 10 mm. ; breadth, 5 mm. 



ASSAM : Sylhet ; BHUTAN ; TONKIN. 



Type in Dr. F. Ohaus' collection. 



I have seen only a specimen from the first locality. Dr. Ohaus 

 also gives Calcutta, which is improbable. 



16. Parastasia sulcipennis. 



Parastasia sulcipennis, Gestro, Ann. Mus. Civ. Geneva, (2) vi, 

 1888, p. 113. 



Yellowish brown or light ochreous red, with the head, legs, and 

 the greater part of the lower surface black ; very shining above 

 and thinly clothed beneath with fine yellow hairs. 



It is compact and convex in shape. The head is rugosely 

 punctured, with the clypeus continuous with the forehead and 

 produced into two sharp strongly recurved teeth, the forehead 

 impressed in the middle, and the vertex shining and finely 

 punctured. The prouotum is finely and evenly punctured, with 

 the sides angulated, the front angles very obtuse, and the hind 



