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angles almost right angles. The scutelluin is broader than it is 

 long, obtuse-angled and minutely punctured, and the elytra bear 

 on their dorsal part a slight transverse impression near the 

 middle of each and five nearly equidistant punctured striae. The 

 propygidium and pygidium are very smooth and shining. The 

 sides of the metasternum and the abdomen are very finely and 

 densely strigose, and the rnesosternum is produced into a short 

 sharp process. The claws of the front feet are simple, and the 

 longer one on the middle and hind feet divided. 



d 1 . Yellowish brown above (except the head). The prothorax 

 is a little narrowed in front and not very convex above, and the 

 elytral striae are very fine, with flat intervals. The mesosternum 

 is slightly produced. 



. Bright ochreous red above (except the head), larger and 



Fig. \\.-Parastasia 

 sulcipennis, tf. 



Fig. 12. Parastasia 

 sulcipennis, $ . 



much more massive, with the pronotnm more convex and more 

 distinctly punctured, the elytra broader behind, the five dorsal 

 striae very broad and strongly impressed, except towards their 

 extremities, with narrow and convex intervals, and the sides 

 decorated with fine and short oblique scratches. The meso- 

 sternum is distinctly produced. 



Length, 18*5 mm. ; breadth, 11 mm. 



ASSAM : Chandkhira, Sylhet (J. L. Sherwill) ; BURMA : Teinzo 

 (L. Fea, May type). 



Type in the Genoa Museum. 



This interesting species was described from the female only, 

 .although the sex is not mentioned in the original description. 

 The male which I have here associated with it is described from 

 a specimen taken, together with a female, by Mr. J. L. Sherwill. 

 Although they appear at first sight to have little in common, 

 I believe them to be truly conspecific. The male is smaller and 

 less massively built, the pronotum less convex and less distinctly 

 punctured, the elytra, instead of having the very deep grooves and 

 narrow convex intervals of the female, are very finely striated, with 

 wide flat intervals, and the mesosternal process is distinctly less 

 sharp. They agree, however, in two peculiar, though not obvious, 



