490 REVISION OF THE GENUS PAROPSIS, 



CCC. The post-median metallic markings 



run longitudinally near the 



suture. 



D. These longitudinal marks are two 



narrowly connected spots on each 



elytron nobilitata, Er. 



DD. These longitudinal marks are a 

 continuous sinous band on each 

 elytron debilis, Chp. 



P. VARIICOLLIS, Chp. 



Of this species I have examples from the Chapuis collection which 

 hear a printed label " type," and agree well with the description. 

 It is of less fragile texture than most of its allies. Its colour is 

 yellowish-brown, with the base of the head, the underside, legs 

 and apical part of the antennae mostly black. The scutellum is 

 more or less outlined with black, and the seriate and lateral 

 punctures of the elytra are usually blackish. The form is obovate 

 and rather strongly convex. The prothorax is rugulose and 

 coarsely and closely punctulate. The elytra are exceptionally 

 strongly and regularly striate, the strife near the suture being 

 as well defined quite to their base as the dorsal ones. The sides 

 of the elytra are shallovvly and vaguely but distinctly impressed 

 a little behind the shoulder. The punctures in the strife are 

 rather large, closely packed and strongly crenulate and are 

 decidedly non-symmetrical, many of the punctures being out of 

 line with the adjacent ones and two or three being placed in a 

 transverse row here and there. The confused lateral punctures 

 are about the same size as those of the series and are rather 

 closely placed, the interstices between them being rugulose. 

 Owing to the blackish colouring of the punctures being confined 

 to the bottom of each puncture, the punctures from a certain point 

 of view appear round, non-crenulate and much smaller than from 

 another point of view (this is of course not the case in specimens 

 not having their punctures black \ The interstices between the 

 stride are more or less convex and are rather closely and very 

 distinctly punctulate. The prothorax is something less than three 



