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sparse" and "elytral seriate punctures remote." With the former 

 of those characters the examples Ijefore me agree well. The latter 

 of the two characters is ambiguous, as the phrase Chapuis uses 

 might suggest that his species belonged to subgroup ii. of this 

 group (containing stictica, Max'sh., and its allies), but as the 

 description of Jiaveola occurs in Chapuis' memoir several pages 

 away from the descriptions of stictica, inspersa, &c., the phrase 

 probably means merely that the punctures of the elytral series 

 are less close to eatfh other than in the species among which 

 flaveola occurs, which is the case in the specimens before me. 



The present species is much like captiosa, Clk., in general 

 appearance and is similarly coloured except in the antennte (the 

 base excepted) being distinctly black. It differs from captiosa by 

 its much stouter antennae, its more sparsely punctured prothorax, 

 the coarser and especially less even sculpture of the lateral part 

 of its elytra, and the notably less closely placed punctures of the 

 elytral series. It appears to have had, when fresh, some large 

 ill-defined feebly metallic blotches of a golden-rosy tone on its 

 elytra. 



P. RUFESCENS, Chp. (?). 



This species is one of which I do not possess any specimens 

 named by Chapuis, and therefore I cannot be certain that my 

 identification is correct. The specimens which I group together 

 under this name may probably represent more than one species, 

 a doubt which can only be solved, probably, by breeding an 

 extensive series and studying the insects in their larval and pupal 

 stages. Among the feebly metallic Parojjses (of this subgroup) 

 having the elytral series of punctures symmetrical or nearly so, 

 the elytra devoid of systematic lateral inequalities, the elytral 

 series not of very fine and perfectly symmetrical type (as they are 

 in the hectica aggregate) and the lateral puncturation of the el3^tra 

 not of the evenly distributed non-rugulose type (which they are 

 in the hectica aggregate and also in decolorata and captiosa), this 

 species is distinguished irom fastidiosa by, iiiter alia, the 9th and 

 10th elytral series not being subconfluent through the coarseness 

 of their punctures (which moreover are not or scarcely of quadrate 



