188 EBVISION OF THE GENUS PAROPSIS, 



P. RUFOPiCTA, Blackb. 



It will be well to take this opportunity of mentioning the 

 following characters not enumerated in the original description, 

 viz., greatest height of elytra slightly in front of the middle of 

 the elytral margin as viewed from the side, width of prothorax 

 to length as 2i to 1, elytra not depressed below the humeral 

 callus and without any subbasal impression, marginal part of 

 elytra very little distinguishable even near the apex from the 

 discal part, humeral callus feebly marked (its inner edge 

 decidedly further from the suture than from the lateral margin 

 of the elytra), basal ventral segment sparsely and somewhat 

 strongly punctulate. 



P. EYRENSIS, sp.nov. 



^. Subovata; minus lata; nitida; sat convexa, altitudine majori 



(a latere visa) pone elytrorum marginem medium posita; testa- 



ceo-brunnea, capite medio jjrothorace (transversim sinuatim) 



elytrorum vittis numerosis et abdomine infuscatis ; capite 



dupliciter (crebrius subtilissime et sparsim subgrosse) punctu- 



lato ; prothorace quam longiori ut 2}x ad 1 latiori, pone 



apicem haud impresso, ab apice paullo ultra medium dilatato, 



subtiliter minus confertim (ad latera sparsim grosse) punctu- 



lato, lateribus minus arcuatis haud deplanatis, angulis posticis 



obtusis; scutello sat Itevi; elytris sub callum humeralem haud 



depressis, pone basin haud impressis, injequaliter sat grosse 



minus crebre subseriatim punctulatis, parte marginali a disco 



haud distincta, calli humeralis margine interno a sutura 



quam ab elytrorum margine laterali multo magis distanti; 



segmento ventrali basali sparsim leviter punctulato. Long. 



2, lat. li lines. 



The inf uscate mark on the prothorax is probably variable; in 



the type it is a central blotch from either side of which a curved 



narrow line runs out nearly to the margin (this line is continuous 



on one side and interrupted on the other). On the elytra the 



inf uscate vittte are of darker colour than the markings of the other 



parts and may be described as (on each elytron) four pairs of fine 



lines of which the external thi'ee are irregularly dilated and 



