PL AT YR HOP ALUS . 



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and not meeting, and a large and more or less irregular patch 

 at the apex meeting at the suture. From P. angustus, which 

 it resembles in some respects, it may be known by the irregular 

 edge of the club ol the antennae and the shorter tooth at the 

 incision, and by the colour of the elytra. The pronotum is some- 

 what variable in length, but is about as long as broad, not strongly 

 contracted behind, and has three impressed lines, which are often 

 more or less obsolete ; the pygidium is black and shining ; the 

 tibiae are somewhat emargiuate before the apex aud terminate 

 xternally in a sharp tooth. 

 Length 8 millim. 



Assam: Patkai Hills, Manipur ; Bcema.. 



230. Platyrhopalus paussoides, Wasm. 



Platyrhopalus paussoides, Wasmann, Notes Leyden Mas. xxv, 1904, 

 p. 20, pi. 3, tig. 3. 



A comparatively small species, closely resembling in general 

 appearance certain species of Paussus ; narrow, subcylindrical, 

 shiuing, of a dark castaneous colour, with 

 the elytra black except for a narrow rufo- 

 testaceous basal spot on each near the 

 suture (which is black), and a common 

 transverse band or spot some little way 

 before the apex, the suture between these 

 being castaneous, but the pale basal mark- 

 ings are sometimes greatly extended ; head 

 flat and smooth between the eyes, which 

 are large and prominent : clypeus truncate 

 and not emarginate, furnished with a short 

 and very thin longitudinal line ; club of the 



Fig. 210. Platyrhopalus antennas about as long as broad, almost 



paussoides, var. round and very convex, with the margins 



acute and with the posterior or external 

 margin deeply and broadly silicate and incised, and furnished with 

 a sharp basal tooth ; pronotum with rufous setae at the sides, sub- 

 cordiform, not transverse, only a little narrower at the base than 

 .at the apex, gently constricted before the apex, with a transverse 

 line ; elytra oblong, parallel-sided, very finely alutaceous, and 

 finely but distinctly punctured and rather closely pubescent 

 (in fresh specimens) ; legs pitchy, narrower than in P. angustus. 

 Length 6J-7^ millim. 



Bhutan; United Provinces: Dehra Dun ; Assam: Groalpara 

 {Tver). 



The longer pronotum will at once separate the species from 

 P. denticornis, and the (as a rule) darker colour, narrower form, 

 uneven margins of club, etc. will distinguish it from P. angustus, 

 to which it is most nearly allied. 



