Pheropsophus lineifrons CHAUDOIR, 1850 (Fig. 1 I) Pheropsophus lineifrons Chaudoir, 1850: 80; 1876: 24; Bates, 1892a: 233; Arrow, 1901: 203; Andrewes, 1930: 273; Jedlička, 1963: 529; Hrdlička, 2017: 480; Ullah et al., 2017: 182. Specimen examined (n=2): Holotype, labelled “ Ind. Or. Chaud. lineifrons Chaud. ”, type in ZMHB Other specimen examined: 1 ex., “Kutch, Gujarat, India, coll. B.Horne, det S.V.Akhil ” Description. Length: 15.0–16.0 mm Colour. Head and pronotum reddish brown; clypeus, labrum and anterior part of head reddish yellow; forehead with a brownish black patch between anterior impressions; elytra black with humeral spots and median band little darker yellow, reddish brown colour along the suture; apex of antennae and legs pale reddish yellow; first four antennal segments light coloured, segments 5–11 dark brownish coloured; eyes greyish; yellowish red with black spot on apex of the femur. Head: Smaller, narrower; disc smooth over vertex, rough with wrinkles posteriorly; eyes protruding; antennal segment two very short; labrum convex. Pronotum: Broad, anterior convexity covering 3/4 th of the disc, contracted posteriorly; scarcely punctuate; median furrow present; surface smooth. Elytra: Elongated and narrow; subparallel laterally; humerus present but rounded; median band rounded with serrated edges; striations rounded, broad; apical band present but narrow. Geographical distribution. INDIA: Assam: Tezpur (Andrewes 1930); Bengal: Darjiling (Chaudoir 1876); Bihar: Pusa, Chapra (Andrewes 1930); Uttarpradesh: Allahabad, Mughalsarai (Andrewes 1930); Uttarakhand: Lachhiwala (Andrewes 1930); Himachal Pradesh: Simla (Andrewes 1930); Chota Nagpur plateau (Andrewes 1930); Gujrat: Kutch (New record); Maharashtra: Nagpur (Andrewes 1930); BANGLADESH: Dhaka (Chaudoir 1850); PAKISTAN: Islamabad. Khyber Pashtunkhwa. Punjab (Ullah et al. 2017). Remarks. Pheropsophus lineifrons is morphologically most similar to P. catoirei, but distinct from it in having a black patch over the anterior part of head, reddish brown elytral suture, more serrated elytral median transverse band, darker legs.

Published as part of Venugopal, Akhil S. & Thomas, Sabu K., 2019, Bombardier beetles of the genus Pheropsophus Solier 1833 (Carabidae: Brachininae: Brachinini) from Indian subcontinent, pp. 65-89 in Zootaxa 4608 (1) on page 75, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4608.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/3993611