486 REVISION OF THE GENUS PAROPSIS, 



<ievoting himself to a study of their characters and habits in their 

 larval and pupal stages. Under these circumstances I have had 

 to content myself with breaking up the sections into a few 

 aggregates which I feel confident are distinct (at least specifically) 

 inter se, and applying a name to a typical example of each 

 aggregate; though at the same time entertaining a strong suspicion 

 that among the specimens to Avhich I am applying the name, there 

 are a good many more species in reality than one ; so that in 

 respect of many of the names tabulated below all I venture to 

 assert is that specimens referable to it by their characters are 

 distinct from the other species tabulated, and are either the species 

 in question or one very close to it and not separable by any 

 reliable character that I can find. 



The number of names that I can ascertain to have been applied 

 to species of this subgroup is 26. Of these there are two of which 

 I am somewhat confident that I have not seen a specimen (viz., 

 albicans, Clip., and jn'oxityia, Clip.), two that I can confidentl}'' 

 assert to be synonyms (viz., con/erta, Clip., = Uesa, "Germ., and 

 vulgaris, Clip., = ohovata, Clip.), three that I regard less con- 

 fidently as synonyms (viz., Icesa, Greviw., = arnica, Newm., amoena, 

 Clk., =captiosa, Clk., and clebilis, Chp., = ptirpureo-aurea, Clk.), 

 and two concerning which I hesitate to say more than that I have 

 not been able to connect them with any of the specimens I have 

 examined (viz., citrina, Clip., and tenella, Clip.). After the 

 elimination of the above names, then, there remain 17 names 

 which appear to me to represent valid species of this subgroup 

 and which are known to me; and to them I add (below) 8 new 

 species, bringing up the number to 25. To speak more particu- 

 larly concerning the species mentioned doubtfully above, I may 

 say that arnica is altogether insufl&ciently described, but the 

 description contains the woi'd " pravis " applied to the seriate 

 puncturation of the elytra, which word certainly seems to point 

 to one of the first four species in the tabulation (below); in that 

 case the colours attributed to arnica suggest identity with hesa. 

 Germ., rather than with any of the others. If this conjectural 

 synonymy is correct, Germar's name must yield to Newman's, but 



