PAKASTASIA. FRUHSTORFERIA. 47 



The insect is oval in shape, very smooth and sharing, and 

 moderately convex. The head is scantily rugosely punctured, 

 and the clypeus broadly triangular with its apical margin cleft 

 into two lobes, of which the points are reflexed and not sharp. 

 The eyes are not very close and the eye-ridges are feeble. The 

 clypeal suture is strongly marked. The pronotum is very scantily 

 and lightly punctured, with the lateral 

 margins rounded, the front angles nearly 

 right angles, the hind angles rather ob- 

 tuse, and the base broadly insinuated. 

 The scute! lum is broad and nearly smooth, 

 with rounded sides. The elytra are very 

 smooth and shining, with rows of large 

 annular punctures, which are not as usual 

 straight and parallel, but contorted, the 

 black markings described being outlined 

 by them. The pygidium is very finely 

 Fig. IS.-Parastasia Punctured, and bears a few long hairs 

 ' ochracea. toward the apex. The metasternum is 



moderately thickly clothed with long 



yellow hair, and the mesosternum is not produced. The front 

 tibia bears three acute teeth, the two apical ones approximated. 

 The longer claw of each foot is minutely cleft at the tip. 



cJ . The antennae are rather long, the club nearly as long as 

 the footstalk. The front tarsus is a little thickened, and the 

 inner claw broad and twice as long as the outer. 

 The female is unknown. 

 Length, 16*5 mm. ; breadth, 10'5 mm. 

 SIKKIM: Darjiling; UNITED PROVINCES: Allahabad (?). 

 Type in the British Museum. 



The contorted elytral striae of this insect are highly peculiar 

 and found in no other Lamellicorn beetle known to me. 



The locality Allahabad borne by the type specimen from the 

 old Bo wring Collection is probably due to an error. 



Genus FRUHSTORFERIA. 



Fruhstorferia, Kolbe, Stett. Ent. Zeit. Iv, 1894, p. 3. 



TYPE, Fruhstorferia javana, Kolbe (Java). 



Range. Burma, Indo-China, Java. 



Body rather short and massive, broad, and not very convex. 

 Head moderately large, with the eyes wide apart and not very 

 prominent, and with more or less prominent ridges in front of 

 them. Antennae short, joints 3 to 7 very short, progressively 

 diminishing. Clypeus rather long, narrowed, with the front 

 margin entire. Prouotuin broad, scarcely lobed behind. Pro- 

 sternum produced into a strongly-elevated vertical process behind 

 the front coxae. Mesosternum not produced. Legs rather short 

 and stout ; front tibia abruptly excised at the base internally and 

 armed with three sharp teeth externally; middle and hind tibiae 



