1908.] Records of the Indian Museum. 407 



'^Ivong. 2I lin." 



Var. A. Pygidio corporeque subtus flavis, illo macula cunei- 

 formi pectore, abdominisquc disco nigris." 



Var. B. Corpore nigra, antennarum basi, clypeo, faciei signa- 

 turis, thoracisque lined longitudinali sordide flavis." 



Head rather coarsely but not closely punctured^ the punc- 

 turing varying in degree in different individuals ; front impressed 

 with, a distinct longitudinal groove ; cl^^peus broader than long, 

 trigonate ; antennae three-fourths the length of the bod}- in the 

 5 , rather longer in the & , the three lower joints pale piceous^ the 

 rest black. Thorax rather more than twice as broad as long at 

 the base ; sides moderately- rounded and obliquely converging 

 from base to apex ; basal margin concave-emarginate on either 

 side, the outer angles produced backwards, acute ; above convex, 

 minutely but not closely punctured. Elytra slightly broader than 

 the thorax, oblong quadrate, convex, rather strongly punctate- 

 striate, the punctures piceous, finer, and less strongly impressed 

 towards the apex ; interspaces faintly but distinctly convex, trans- 

 versely wrinkled ; each elytron with the extreme outer hmb (in- 

 terrupted on the lateral margin before its middle) and five large 

 patches black ; these spots are arranged as follows : two trans- 

 versely below the base, the outer one oblong, covering the humeral 

 callus and attached to the basal margin, the inner one subrotun- 

 date, placed on the inner disc ; two just below the middle also 

 placed transversely, both subrotundate, the outer one usually 

 attached to the lateral margin ; and lastly, one apical, transversal j^ 

 oblong, either free or attached to the apical border ; these patches 

 are often more or less confluent, and occasionally, as in var. B, 

 cover the entire surface of the el3^tron. Pygidium and body be- 

 neath clothed with griseous hairs. Apical margin of prosternum 

 obliquely produced, deflexed, slightly emarginate, the hinder 

 margin concave, armed on either side with a deflexed, obtuse 

 tooth ; mesosternum transverse, its apical border angulate-em- 

 arginate. Apical segment of abdomen in the cf impressed with 

 a shallow fovea ; the same segment in the $ deeply excavated, the 

 fovea large, rotundate. Basal joint of the four anterior tarsi in 

 the cf dilated, elongate-ovate, longer than the following two 

 united." 



' ' The form of the prosternum will separate this species from 

 any nearly allied species." 



" Hab.— Murree." {Baly.) 



There are three specimens in the Museum collection named by 

 Baly, The "type" and var. B, from Murree, and var. A, from 

 the Jhelum Valley, N.-W. Kashmir. 



Paria cuprescens, Baly. 



Baly, Scient. Results, Second Yarkand Mission, 1878-91, 

 Coleoptera, p. 28. 



