Etymology. Caledonia + Parandra, in reference to the islands of New Caledonia located in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. Feminine gender.

Type species. Parandra austrocaledonica Montrouzier, 1861.

Description. Dorsal area of head, between eyes, without gibbosities or with vague gibbosities, with central depression in “V”. Ocular carina narrow; elevated and distinct from middle of eye to clypeus or slightly elevated and distinct from posterior edge of eye to clypeus. Eyes of male narrow (Fig. 81) (larger width equal to 0.4 times the total length), or moderately wide (Fig. 80) (larger width equal to 0.5 times the total length); wide in female (larger width equal to 0.6 times the total length), or moderately wide (larger width equal to 0.5 times the total length); posterior ocular edge distinct (Fig. 370) or not (Fig. 373); anterior ocular edge with concavity well defined (Fig. 81). Frontoclypeal suture visible only laterally (sometimes absent). Central region of clypeus vertical or barely oblique. Clypeolabral suture visible only laterally (sometimes barely defined throughout). Labrum sub-horizontal or clearly oblique; apex of central projection of male, wide, truncate or rounded; narrow, truncate, rounded or subacute in female. Mandibles of male (Fig. 130, 132) not falciform, at most, as long as head, wide at base of latero-outer face (Fig. 80, 81); dorsal carina elevated, strongly oblique in relation to longitudinal axis, well marked from base to, at most, middle of mandible, fused at apex to more basal tooth of inner margin; inner margin with two teeth; apex with two large teeth, visible on dorsal side, and a third, small tooth, not visible from dorsal side. Mandibles of female (Fig. 131, 133) Birandra -like, only wide at base of latero-outer face; dorsal carina low, restricted to basal third; inner margin with two teeth together protracted, located in middle; apex as in males. Mentum of male with long hair, abundant or very abundant; in female, shorter and sparser. Galea (Fig. 197, 198) long (reaching or surpassing apex of second segment of maxillary palp). Ventral sensorial area of antennae (Fig. 220, 221) visible from side, divided by carina, elevated, visible from side; ventral sensorial area of antennomere XI invading dorsal area (sometimes separated by a very fine band); dorsal sensorial area of antennomere XI large, not divided by carina; apex of antennomere XI rounded or barely narrow.

Anterior margin of pronotum concave or sinuous; anterior angles of males projected forward or not; in females projected forward; lateral angle strongly marked; posterior angles very distinct. Elytra with punctures barely coarse and well defined, or very fine. Veins MP 3 and MP 4 not fused at their apex (Fig. 213). Femora glabrous. Dorsal face of tibiae rounded. Anterior coxal cavities clearly open. Paronychium with one seta.

Included species. Caledonandra austrocaledonica (Montrouzier, 1861), comb. nov.; C. passandroides (Thomson, 1867), comb. nov.

Geographical distribution (Fig. 315). New Caledonia.

Comments. Caledonandra differs from all other genera of Parandrini by the: presence of deep depression in “V” at dorsal face of the head; dorsal carina of the mandibles (mainly in males), short, strongly oblique in relation to the longitudinal axis, and fused at apex to the more basal tooth of the inner margin. That last character also occurs in Storeyandra (notably in males), but in that genus there is not the depression in “V” at dorsal face of the head, the apex of labrum of the males is rounded, the mandibles, in both sexes do not have a small tooth near apex at lower surface, and the mandible of the female is somewhat Parandra - like. See comments on Papuandra.