■678 REVISION OF THE GENUS PAROPSIS, 



elytris (maculis magnis 3 — i.e., in utroque elytro 1 basali 1 

 mediana sublaterali Ique subapicali — etnotulisnonnullis aliis 

 testaceis, exceptis) piceis vel rufopiceis; capite crebre subtilius 

 punctulato; antennis modice elongatis, sat robustis, articulis 

 omnibus quam latioribus sat longioribus ; prothorace quam 

 longiori ut 2| ad 1 latiori, ut caput (ad latera vix magis 

 fortiter) punctulato, latera versus vix perspicue impresso, 

 lateribus leviter arcuatis, angulis anticis acutis posticis sub- 

 rectis; elytris haud striatis, distincte 10-seriatim punctulatis, 

 interstitiis planis subtiliter punctulatis, sutura nullo modo 

 carinata, parte marginali quam series externse haud magis 

 fortiter punctulata. Long. 2, lat. 1|- lines. 



An extremely anomalous species, with no near ally known to 

 me. I do not know any other combining the following characters: 

 size very small, basal joint of antennae elongate, form subhemis- 

 pha^ric, suture absolutely flat (not even margined), middle of 

 prosternum strongly sulcate with the sides of the sulcus strongly 

 carinate. The pale marks on each elytron are a large subcircular 

 spot between the scutellum and humeral callus, an oval spot of 

 about the same size at the beginning of the posterior declivity 

 and a still larger somewhat quadrate spot near the lateral margin 

 slightly in front of the middle. These spots, with their fellows on 

 the other elytron, are placed at regular intervals on an imaginary 

 line that would be the circumference of a circle. The lateral 

 margin is widely testaceous in its hinder j3art and there is a 

 small testaceous spot between the large submarginal spot and the 

 margin. In one of the two examples before me the lateral 

 margin is widely testaceous close to the base. The prothorax is 

 testaceous except on a longitudinal dark space on either side of 

 the middle line (the interval between these two dark areas being 

 also more or less darker than the general surface). I believe the 

 two specimens before me to be females, but it is extremely difficult 

 to feel sure of the sex (unless one has both sexes) in some of the 

 very small Paropses as the basal joint in the male is sometimes 

 but little wider than that of the female and the median line 

 scarcely indicated in the latter sex. 



