. Coleoptera : general introduction and Cicindelidae and Paussidae. coloured; legs ratherlong and slender, with the femora somewhat compressed; tarsilong, with the first four joints hairy, the second being the longest,and the last joint long and narrow. Range. Two species belong to the Indian region, and a third tothe Malay region; the remainder are African. Key to the Species. I. Size larger (9-10 mm.) ; pronotum with the sides bluntly angled, theirgreatest breadth being just about the middle , taprobanensis, Gestro, p. 451. II. Size smaller (7f-8| mm.); pronotum with the sides narrowly round
. Coleoptera : general introduction and Cicindelidae and Paussidae. coloured; legs ratherlong and slender, with the femora somewhat compressed; tarsilong, with the first four joints hairy, the second being the longest,and the last joint long and narrow. Range. Two species belong to the Indian region, and a third tothe Malay region; the remainder are African. Key to the Species. I. Size larger (9-10 mm.) ; pronotum with the sides bluntly angled, theirgreatest breadth being just about the middle , taprobanensis, Gestro, p. 451. II. Size smaller (7f-8| mm.); pronotum with the sides narrowly rounded andnot angled, their greatest breadth being distinctly behind the middle. cardoni, Gestro, p. 452. 219. Pleuropterus taprobanensis, Gestro. Pleuropterus taprobanensis, Gestro, Ann. Mus. Genova, 1901, p. 821fig. 2 ; Wasmann, Notes Leyden Mus. xxv, 1904, p. 14. Pleuropterus westermanni, liaffrav (nec Westwood), Nouv. Paris, viii, 1883, p. 37, pi. 15, fig. 4, & pi. 17, fig. 1. Somewhat depressed, moderately broad, shining; head very 452 PAUSSID^ Fig. 204.—Pleuropterustaprobancnsis. short, dark rufous, with large and prominent eyes, occupyingthe whole of the sides, but with the temples just visible behindthem, vertex uneven and rather strongly punctured; antennae-rufescent, long, and shining; pronotumferruginous, much broader than long,strongly raised at the margins, which arebluntly angled, and with its greatestbreadth just about the middle; the centralpart is raised and more or less channelledin the centre, and the sides are stronglyexcavate; the base is depressed, and thecentral raised part divides before the tri-angular depression and leads off on eitherside to the bluntly-produced posterior an-gles ; on each side, just before these angles,there is a small stiff tuft of seta?, which atfirst sight looks like a tooth ; elytra oblong,parallel-sided, broader than the pronotum,red or yellowish red, with two broad elon-gate patches (one on each side of the suture) n
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