Paromalus vernalis Lewis, 1892: 35 [Japan; Nara, Oyayama, Yuyama]; Hisamatsu, 1968: 31 [Ryûkyû]; 1985: 225 [photo]; Mazur, 1984: 134.

Microlomalus vernalis: Lewis, 1907: 318.

Japanese name: Ko-chibi-hirata-emma-mushi.

Paromalus (Paromalus) vernalis: Ôhara, 1994, 201.

Paromalus (Paromalus) vernalis: Ohara, 1994, 201.

Oblong-oval, rather convex, black, legs pitchy; the head evenly punctured, stria complete, forehead flattish; the thorax, anterior angles depressed, somewhat obtuse, somewhat thickly punctured, stria strong at the sides and behind the anterior angles, fine behind the neck, punctures behind the neck small, those at the sides and in front of the scutellum somewhat oblong; the elytra are punctured like the thorax, suture very feebly raised in the dorsal region, sutural margin narrow, smooth, one stria short and oblique, the epipleural stria does not reach the sutural angle; the propygidium is transversely punctured; the pygidium in the male has a transverse furrow near the base, and behind it is another (which is sometimes broken at the sides), which is formed to enclose a semicircular lobe, the course of the furrow not being always well defined; in the female the pygidium is faintly and sparsely punctulate; the prosternum without stria, punctures scattered and feeble, the whole surface microscopically strigose; the mesosternum, stria arcuate in the middle, angles acute, median part wider than the appendages, suture invisible; the metasternum similarly punctate, punctures large and not closely set, subocellate in front of the hind coxae; the lateral striae on the first segment of the abdomen are nearly parallel to each other; anterior tibiae 4-dentate.

This species also is of the P. bistriatus group.

Hab. Japan. Obtained at Nara, Oyayama, and Yuyama."

[Nansei Isles] Amami-Oshima: Nagakumo-tôge, Tatsugô-chô (1 ex., 8/v/1966), Y. Kurosa.

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