PAKATHRYLEA. 



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slender ; posterior femora strongly incrassate, channelled on the 

 underside ; tibiae subcylindrical, hardly thickened towards the 

 apex, the posterior pair with a long spine at the apex ; in the male 

 the first segment of the front and middle tarsi is broad, about as 

 long as the following two together ; first segment of posterior 

 tarsi longer than the following two together, second segment in 

 all the tarsi small, third, bilobed but small, claw-segment long, 

 projecting much beyond the bilobed segment ; claws appendi- 

 cular. 



Range. India. 



224. Parathrylea apicipennis, Duvivier. 



Parathrylea apicipennis, Duviv., Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xxxvi, 1892, 

 p. 421. 



Body oblong-ovate, narrowed behind. Colour shining black ; 

 the four basal segments of the antennae, the prothorax, the apical 

 part of the elytra and the three apical ventral segments of the 

 abdomen, yellow; the front margin of the prothorax is narrowly 



Fig. 117.- Parathrylea apicipennis, Duviv. 



edged with black, and the apical yellow patches of the elytra 

 contain many black spots, irregularly placed ; the elytra have a 

 greenish tinge ; the colour of the femora and tarsi and part of 

 the mandibles varies from yellow to brown or pitch-black. 



Head convex at the vertex, impunctate or bearing a few fine 

 punctures, frontal elevations not very prominent, interantennal 

 space rather broad and with a few punctures. Antennae short, 

 extending a little distance beyond the base of the pronotum, from 

 the fifth segment onwards thickened and more hairy ; first segment 



