Abstract
Supplementary description and new distributional records are presented for the rare Chinese species Paratrichius circularis Ma, 1990, and a resembling species, Paratrichius tesari Mückstein, Xu & Qiu, new species, is described from Guizhou, China. Habitus, diagnostic characters and ecological notes are illustrated for both species.
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