PAEOPSIDES. 



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few scattered punctures in the middle ; presternum slightly 

 constricted in the middle, broadly rouuded at the apex, sides 

 margined, surface rough. Tarsi with the third (bilobed) segment 

 split along the middle, the claw-segment long, projecting much 

 beyond the preceding one, the claws simple. 

 Length, 6|-8 mm. 



Western Himalayas : Kumaon, Almora, Eanikhet, on Alnus, 

 vi. 1917; Sunderdhunga Valley, 8000-12,000 ft, (B. G. Champion). 

 This species is gregarious, large numbers being found feeding 

 together. 



Type in the British Museum. Described from seventeen 

 examples. 



Genus PAROPSIDES, MotschulsTcy. 



Paropsides, Motsch., in Sckrenck's Eeisen Amurl. ii, 1860. p. 192; 

 Chapuis, Gen. Col. x. 1874, pp. 442, 445; Marseul, Abeille, xxvii, 

 1889, p. 144 ; Weise, Arch. Naturg. lxvii, 1901, pp. 166, 168. 



Genotype, Paropsis duodecimpustidata, Gebl. 1825 (Siberia). 



Oval or rounded, convex beetles. Colour dark brown, reddish- 

 brown, or light yellow, with or without markings. Head broader 

 than long, fitting the emargination of the pronotum, with surface 

 punctate and with a Y -sna ped mark. Antennae not long, hardly 

 passing beyond the base of the pronotum. Mandibles strong; 

 labrum broad and set with bristles ; apical segment of the 

 labial palpi broad, more or less compressed and truncate. 

 Prothorax much broader than long, front margin emarginate, the 

 posterior margin is a wide arch so that generally there are no 

 posterior angles, neither are there any well-cleGned lateral margins, 

 anterior angles generally rounded. Scutellum triangular with 

 varying degree of angularity of the apex. Elytra punctate-striate ; 

 the number of striae varies, and sometimes the punctures are so 

 numerous and confused that the striae can be hardly recognized. 

 Underside: prosternum convex, elongate, its posterior end having 

 a A-shapecl notch which fits into a small projection of the 

 anterior end of the mesosternum ; the epipleuron of each etytron 

 is vertical, concave, and broader at the base than at the apex. 

 The first segment of the tarsi Js broad and oval, in repose it fits 

 into a concavity in the apical and outer side of the tibia ; the 

 claws have a sharp appendix on the underside. 



Range. East Siberia, China, India, Australia. 



Key to the Species. 



1. Each elytron has six large, roundish, 

 light brown patches on a red-brown 



ground-colour P. pardalis, Jac, p. 72. 



No such markings 2. 



