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more so on the five apical ones. Prothorax quadrate, anterior 

 edge widely ernarginate, basal margin undulate, sides straight, 

 rounded at the anterior angles, posterior angles almost right angles ; 

 central area of upper surface moderately convex and impuactate, 

 while each side has a longitudinal depressed area which forms a 

 border along the lateral margin and contains a few coarse 

 punctures, these latter may be more in some examples and in 

 others only four or five. Scutellum triangular with apex rounded, 

 surface impunctate, colour the same as the prothorax. Elytra 

 broader at the base than the prothorax, elongate, smooth, each 

 elytron has the following rows of punctures: (1) one longish 

 scutellar row, (2) one along the sutural margin, (3) four pairs of 

 discal rows, each pair enclosing a smooth space, (4) one row along 

 the extreme outer margin ; areas between the paired rows 

 covered with round black spots which simulate punctures. 

 Underside in some specimens more shining than the upper side, 

 generally finely punctate, the abdominal segments more strongly 

 so, and sparsely covered with very fine hairs. 



In a specimen from W. China the last three abdominal segments 

 are entirely red-brown. In the type-specimen, which is from 

 Nepal, the metallic colour is more blue than green, the abdominal 

 segments are more or less browner at the edges, the last one 

 entirely, and the two preceding ones except in the middle area, 

 brown. 



Length, 13*5-14'5 mm. ; greatest breadth, 8-9 mm. 



Nepal. Bhutan (Atkinson). Sikkim: G-opaldhara, 1916 (H. 

 Stevens). Darjeeling District: Sureil, Mungphu, 5000 ft., iv-v. 

 1917 (S. W. Kemp); Pashok, 5000 ft., 26. v-14. vi. 1 916 (F. H. 

 Gravely). United Provinces : W. Almora Division, Kumaon, 

 vii. 19i9 (H. G. Champion) ; Naiui Tal, ix. 1917 (H. G. Champion). 

 Burma: Haka, Chin Hills, i. viii. 1910 (F. E. Venning); Ruby 

 Mines (Doherty) ; Bhamo Hills, 4000 ft., v. 1916 (F. M. Mackwood). 

 Assam: Naga Hills (Doherty); (W. F. Badgley) ; Manipur 

 (Doherty). Also occurring in China : Chin-Fu-San (West China), 

 1908-10 (W. A. Mow). 



Type in the British Museum. 



28, Paralina fallaciosa, Stdl. 



Par alma fallaciosa, Stal, Nova Acta Upsal. (3) iv, 1862, p. 5, nota. 



Colour green with purplish sheen ; abdominal segments, except 

 the first, reddish-brown, their central areas tending to be darker ; 

 elytra dark brown, more shining than in P. indica. 



Head : surface depressed on each side of the median longitudinal 

 line, upper boundary of the clypeus well impressed, and the whole 

 surface sparsely covered with finer and coarser punctures. 

 Antennae slender, elongate, passing well beyond the pronotum ; 

 first segment thick, club-shaped, second very small, third about 

 three times as long as second, fourth shorter than third but 

 almost equal in length to fifth, from the sixth to the last the 



