502 REVISION OF THE GENUS PAROPSIS, 



P. PALLIDA, Chp. (1 Oliv.) 



I regard it as very doubtful whether this is reaWj pallida, Oliv., 

 iDUt as I have before me an example so named by Dr. Chapuis it seems 

 convenient to accept the determination. The present insect and 

 the next (P. inconstans) are evidently allied to the preceding two 

 (raucicoUis and Simsoni) but are at once distinguished from them 

 by the non-rugulose surface of the disc of their prothorax, and 

 also from Simsoni by the puncturation of their elytral interstices 

 being notably finer than that of the series. P. pallida, Chp., is 

 very close to inconstans, but is certainly in my opinion distinct 

 from it inasmuch as its prothorax is of perfectly even convexity 

 from one lateral margin to the other, while on the prothorax of 

 inconstans there is an evident wide, shallow, oblique impression on 

 either side marking the difference between the disc and the lateral 

 portion, the latter, moreover, even independently of the said 

 impression, being slightly flattened as compared with the strong 

 convexity of the disc. The specimen from Dr. Chapuis' collection 

 ticketed '■pallida, Oliv.,' has no locality label attached to it; the 

 other specimens that I have seen are from S.W. Australia. 



P. INCONSTANS, Chp., MS. 



Late ((J) vel minus late (5) ovalis; convexa; minus nitida; tota 

 testacea (exemplorum vivorum elytris in disco viridi-nitenti- 

 bus); antennis satgracilibus minus elongatis; capitecrebresub- 

 tiliter vix subaspere punctulato; prothorace quam longiori ut 

 2^ ad 1 latiori, antice sat angustato, subtiliter sat crebre 

 nullo modo rugulose (sed ad latera grosse) punctulato, ad 

 latera late oblique leviter impresso, angulis anticis sat acutis 

 posticis nullis, lateribus arcuatis; scutello leviter sparsim 

 punctulato ; elytris tequalibus, baud (vel valde subtiliter) 

 striatis, puncturis seriatis rotundis parvis valde regulariter 

 dispositis (in seriebus confertim dispositis sicut puncturse 3 

 longitudinem interstitii latitudini ?equalem occupant), inter- 

 stitiis planis confertim baud vel vix subaspere subtilius (sed 

 quam series multo magis subtiliter) punctulatis, parte laterali 



