PLATTE HOPALOPSIS. — PAUSStlS. 



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Burma : Pegu ; Northern China : widely distributed (teste 

 Wasmann) ; Siam ; Cochin China. 



Westwood (I. c. p. 82) believed it possible that tbe above dis- 

 tinctions might be sexual ; but the two speeies are still considered 

 distinct by Wasmann, Desneux, and other recent writers. Their 

 ant-host has not yet been discovered. 



237. Platyrhopalopsis badgleyi, sp. n. 



A very distinct, broad, rather shining species, not so small and 

 polished as the preceding, and with the elytra more oblong 

 and less convex, distinctly but finely punc- 

 tured, and with a small curved yellowish-red 

 patch on each behind the middle and meeting 

 at the suture, forming a V-shaped patch 

 with the arms recurved, and the point 

 directed towards the apex of the elytra : 

 these patches are, apparently, sometimes 

 divided or obsolete ; the head is rather 

 longer than in the preceding, and the club 

 of the antennae is less circular ; the pro- 

 notuin is very transverse, but longer than in 

 P. mellyi, oval, with the sides rounded, and 

 with faint traces of a depression in the 

 middle ; the elytra form an almost perfect 

 broad rectangular figure, and, although convex as a whole, they 

 are depressed on the disc; the sides of the pronotum and the 

 elytra are thickly set with short yellow setae; the club of the 

 antennae and the disc of the pronotum are also pubescent, and 

 towards the apex of one of the elytra of one of the three specimens 

 know T n, and at the side of another there are patches of rather 

 scanty but very long delicate greyish-yellow pubescence, which 

 probably clothes most of their surface in fresh specimens ; legs 

 stout, compressed, pitchy, in part ferruginous ; underside ferru- 

 ginous, finely sculptured and pubescent. 

 Length 10-1 inillim. 

 Assam (Badgley). 

 Type in the British Museum. 

 Described from three specimens. 



Fig. 214.— Platyrhor 

 jmlopsis badgley i. 



Genus PAUSSUS. 



Paussus, Linne, Bigae Insect. 1775, p. 7 ; Westwood, Arcan. Ent. ii, 

 1845, p. 164 ; id., Thes. Ent. Oxon. 1874, p. 82 ; IiatFray, Nouv 

 Arch. Mus. Paris, (2) viii, 1885, p. 346; Desneux, Gen. Insect., 

 Paussidae, 1905. 



This genus is by far the richest in species, and is composed of 



