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appear much more prominent, as seen from above. What differ- 

 ence in liabits, if any, exists between the two species is unknown, 

 no observation of any kind being recorded as to the present 

 form, but it is remarkable that the two insects appear to live 

 side by side in a part at least of the regions inhabited by them, 

 more than one collector having taken both in the same locality. 

 It is another noteworthy circumstance that whilst closely related 

 offshoots, or representative forms, of P. macleayi are found in 

 outlying districts, even so far away as Formosa (P. gestroi and 

 P. henrid, of this work, being examples), P. parryi remains sharply 

 circumscribed and isolated. I have been unable to find any 

 authentic record of its occurrence elsewhere than in the Darjiling 

 district. The two specimens from which the species was origin- 

 ally described by Gray were registered in the British Museum as 

 having been collected in Sylhet, but as Gray records them only 

 as from " Northern India," it is probable that he was not able to 

 place full reliance upon that locality. 



I am indebted to Mr. O. E. Janson for the loan of a considerable 

 series of these two forms for the purpose of comparison. 



398. Propomacrus macleayi. (Plate IV, fig. 42.) 



Cheirotonus macleayi, Hope, Aim. Nat. Hist, vi, 1841 (1840), p. 300 ; 



id., Trans. Linn. Soc. xviii. 1841, p. 595, pi. 40, fig. 3($); 



Parry, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist, xviii, 1846, p. 315, pi. 3 ( rf ) ; 



Gray, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. v, 1848, p. 59; Pouillaude, 



Insecta, 1913, p. 468, figs. 3, 4, 5 a, & 6 a. 

 Eucheirus macleayi, Westw., Cab. Orient. Entom. 1848, p. 3, pi. i 



(d & ?) 



Euchirus macleayanus, Burm., Handb. Ent. iii, 1842, p. 702. 

 Propomacrus macleayi, Deyr., Ann. Soc. Ent. France, (5) iv, 1874, 



p. 446, pi. ix, figs. 7 & 11. 



Deep coppery-red or golden-green, with the elytra almost black, 

 suffused with a slight metallic lustre, and decorated wth irregular 

 orange-yellow blotches, which are not very crowded and near the 

 outer margins are rather small and scanty. The lower surface is 

 thickly clothed, except at the middle of the abdomen, with long 

 yellow hair, which is also long and conspicuous upon the 

 pygidium. 



The body is rather massively built, very convex and only 

 slightly elongate. The head, pronotum, and legs are shining, and 

 the elytra smooth but opaque and microscopically rugulose, a 

 little dilated behind the middle, with the apical angles slightly 

 spinose. The front margin of the pronotum is rounded and 

 minutely indented in the middle. 



cJ. The head is coarsely pitted, with the clypeus moderately 

 long and divided from the forehead by a distinct ridge, in front of 

 which it is rather abruptly excavated ; the front margin is strongly 

 reflexed, slightly prominent in the middle, with the outer angles 

 distinct but not sharp (except in small specimens), the anterior 



