468 



PAUSSIDiE 



ii. Pronotum with the sides completely 

 rounded ; margin of antenna! club 



entire picteti, Westw., p. 468. 



IT. Form somewhat longer and less convex ; 

 elytra with a common small V-shaped 

 reddish-yellow patch at the suture, 



behind the middle badgleyi, sp. n., p. 469. 



235. Platyrhopalopsis mellyi, Westw. 



Platyrhopalus mellyi, Westwood. Trans. Ent. Soc. ii, p. 84, pi. 10,. 



fig. -5 ; id., Thes. Ent. Oxon. 1874, pi. 18, fig. 2 ; Wasmann, 



Notes Leyden Mus. xxv, 1904, p. 1 8. 

 Platyrhopalopsis mellyi, Desneux, Gen. Insect., Paussidse, pi. 2,. 



fig. 20. 



Stout and robust, pitchy or pitchy-black, unicolorous, shining ; 

 head almost smooth, with feeble traces of a central furrow on the 

 vertex ; club of antennae almost round, with 

 the apical part of the external margin un- 

 even, with two or three moderate notches, 

 the produced parts being clothed with short 

 hairs ; pronotum very small and very trans- 

 verse, the sides being broadly angulate and 

 the posterior portion depressed and divided 

 off by a slightly raised ridge ; elytra very 

 broad, smooth, very finely sculptured and 

 pubescent ; underside and legs pitchy or 

 reddish-pitchy. 



Length 9|-10j millim. 

 Northern India : generally distributed ; 

 Kanara ; Madras : Nilgiri Hills, Madura, 



Fig. 213. 



Platyrhopalopsis mellyi. 



Bombay : Belgaum, 

 Cochin. 



I feel very doubtful whether this species is really distinct 

 from P. picteti, as the question of sex does not appear to have 

 been cleared up. 



236. Platyrhopalopsis picteti, Westw. 



Platyrhopalus picteti, Westwood, Thes. Ent. Oxon. 1874, p. 82, 

 pi. 18, tig. 3, «-c ; Wasmann, Notes Levden Mus. xxv, 1904,. 

 p. 18. 



Closely allied to the preceding, and distinguished by having the 

 club of the antenna? entire along its whole margin, and the margin 

 throughout its length finely setose ; the basal joint of the antennae 

 is narrower and more acute at the tip ; the pronotum has the 

 lateral margins rounded and not angulated, and the basal portion 

 not distinctly divided off by a ridge ; the middle and hind tibiae- 

 have the outer apical angle acute and extended backwards. 



Length 94-10] millim. 



