PAKADIBOLIA. 



295 



Head small, rounded, completely buried in the prothorax ; front 

 narrow, wedge-shaped, with surface finely punctate ; frontal 

 tubercles and carina distinct. Antennae comparatively short, 

 passing to a little distance beyond the base of the pronotum ; 

 first segment long and club-shaped, second short, almost as long 

 as third, which is more slender, fourth, fifth, and sixth elongate, 

 almost equal ; from the seventh onwards the segments are slightly 

 shorter. Prothorax much broader than long, narrowed in front, 

 convex, basal margin slightly sinuate, sides straight but oblique, 

 margin thickened at the anterior angles, the latter and the posterior 



Fig. 110. — Paradiholia indica, Ealy. 



angles each having a seta-bearing pore ; surface finelyfand trans- 

 versely strigose, the strigse radiating from the longitudinal middle 

 line towards the sides. Scutellum triangular, with base slightly 

 emarginate, apex acute and surface bearing a few minute punc- 

 tures, which can be seen under a high power. Elytra broader 

 than prothorax, punctate-striate, the strise being placed in faint 

 furrows ; the punctures themselves are very indistinct, and 

 besides this the whole of the surface is finely rugose. Underside'. 

 abdominal sternites sparsely covered with fine hairs ; parts of the 

 hind femora and legs generally similarly covered with} hairs; 

 otherwise the underside is impunctate and shining. 



Length, 4-4|- mm. 



India. 



Type in the British Museum. 



