672 REVISION OF THE GENUS PAROPSIS, 



to the latter. In my tabulation of the subgroups I have given 

 " size larger than long. 3 lines " as one of the characters of Sub- 

 group i. for the purpose of making it clear that this and one or 

 two other very isolated small species are not to Vie referred to that 

 aggregate; excluded from it there can be no doubt about placing 

 them here. In my description of P. (anea (Trans. R. Soc, S.A., 

 1890, p 143) I expressed some doubt as to whether that insect 

 might not be a form of feneijjennis, Chp., which is very unsatis- 

 factorily described, and of which I have not a specimen named 

 by its author. On further consideration I think it best to regard 

 the two as probably identical, although no doubt there is some 

 uncertainty about the matter. P. (tinea is fully described in the 

 memoir cited abo^^e. It is incapable of confusion with the other 

 species known to me in this subgroup on account of the uniform 

 greenish-black colour of its elytra, of which both the seriate and 

 interstitial puncturation is exceptionally fine. 



P. TENUICOHNIS, Sp.nov. 



Sat breviter ovata; sat fortiter convexa; nitida; testacea, elytris 

 pallide viridescentibus (his nonnullorum exemplorum notulis 

 nonnullis sat Isete viridibus ornatis); capite minus crebre punc- 

 tulato; antennis gracilibus filiformibusvalde elongatis,articulis 

 omnibus quam latioi'ibus multo longioribus; prothorace minus 

 convexo, quam longiori ut 2J^ ad 1 latiori, crebre minus 

 fortiter (latera A'er.sus magis fortiter) punctulato, utrinque 

 late leviter impresso, lateriljus parum arcuatis, angulis anticis 

 acutis prominulis posticis obtusis sed bene determinatis; 

 scutello parvo; elytris quam prothorax multo latioribus, haud 

 striatis, distincte 10-seriatim punctulatis, interstitiis planis 

 subtiliter punctulatis^ sutura postice A'ix carinata, parte 

 marginali quam series externae vix magis fortiter punctulata. 



(J. Tarsorum anteriorum 4 articulo basali minus fortiter dila- 

 tato, lateribus parum rotundatis. Long. 2^-24, lat. 1^-2 

 lines. 



An extremely distinct species combining isolated characters of 

 several subgroups, the scarcely carinate suture connecting it with 



