46 BUTELTNvE. 



the tibiae and tarsi, t.\vo spots upon the vertex of the head, a 

 transverse row of six spots upon the anterior part of the pronoturn, 

 a short longitudinal mark in the middle of the posterior part, 

 a spot in the middle of the anterior part of each elytron, an 

 oblique line extending backwards from the humeral callus, and 

 another upon the apical callus, black or brown. These markings 

 are variable, and some of them are frequently absent. 



It is a rather short and broad insect, not very convex, and 

 very smooth above and beneath. The antennae are rather long 

 and slender. The head is coarsely and very scantily striolated, 

 with the apex smooth, and the clypeus moderately large, broadly 

 triangular and coarsely strigose, with the apical margin divided 

 into two blunt, slightly reflexed lobes. The pronotum and scu- 

 tellum are very finely and thinly punctured and the elytra bear 

 inconspicuous lines of minute punctures. The prothorax is 

 strongly transverse, not very convex, with the sides nearly 

 straight, strongly convergent in front, well rounded behind, 

 the front angles rather acute, the hind ones obtuse, and the 

 base slightly lobed in the middle. The scutellum is very short 

 and broad, with rounded sides. The pygidium is finely coria- 

 ceous ; the metasternum is smooth and shining in the middle, 

 and finely rugose and clothed with fine pale pubescence at the 

 sides. The mesosternum is narrow between the middle coxae 

 and nearly vertical in front. The front tibia is stout and armed 

 with three sharp teeth, the two terminal ones placed close 

 together. 



d 1 . Shorter aud broader in shape, with the front tarsus 

 thickened, the claw-joint enlarged and the inner claw dilated. 



Length, 14-17*5 mm. ; breadth, 8-9-5 mm. 



NICOBAB Is. (Roepstorff) MALAY PENINSULA : SIAM ; BOBNEO, 

 etc. 



Type in the Oxford University Museum. 



Ohaus records the species from the Himalayas, but this is 

 probably incorrect. 



19. Parastasia ochracea. 



Cyphelytra ochracea, Waterh.,* Cistula Entom. i, 1875, p. 367. 

 Bright yellow, with the head, pronotum, scutellum, and 

 patches upon the femora a little more deeply coloured, and with 

 a small black spot on each side of the head between the eyes, one 

 on each side of the pronotum and an anterior and posterior row 

 of three (the median anterior spot double), a wavy line extending 

 from the humeral to the apical callus of each elytron, a shorter 



one running parallel to the last posteriorly, two short longitudinal 

 lines external to it, two oblique internal ones, and a small spot 

 near the ecutellum on each side, all black or nearly black. The 

 edges of the clypeus, prothorax (before and behind), scutellum, 

 elytra, pygidium, and the segments of the body beneath are also 



margined with black, and the tibiae bear black patches. 



