164 REVISION OF THE GENUS PAROPSIS, 



practicable to identify them by means of the following tabulation 

 and descriptions. 



Tn 1877 Br. Chapuis (Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg.) pubHshed a 

 Synopsis of the species of Parofms (already referred to in previous 

 parts of my Revision) in which he enumerated and distributed 

 among his four "groupes," referred to above, the species described 

 by former authors; and he added descriptions of a number of new 

 species. In that Synopsis he attributed to his first "groupe" 21 

 previously named species (two of which, Waterhousei, Baly, and 

 fidvoguttata, Baly, cannot stand in my first Group on account of 

 the sides of their pro thorax being evenly arched), and described 

 six new species, all of which will stand in my first Group, 



Fifty-eight names in all have been proposed for insects that 

 can be confidently regarded as members of my first Group, and 

 also five of Boisduval's names (crocata, morbillosa, miliaris, granu- 

 losa and rugulosa) may possibly appertain to members of it, but 

 the descriptions are so insufficient that they must be treated as 

 if they were non-existent. A certain number of the fifty-four 

 names have already been relegated by previous authors to the 

 category of synonyms, but as this has been in some instances 

 done incorrectly, it seems desirable here to furnish a statement 

 of synonymy, the grounds of which will be found more fully set 

 forth where necessary in the following pages under the heading 

 of the names concerned. 

 P. testacea, Germ. = Wilsoni, Baly. 



sanguhiipen^iis, Germ. = reticulata, Marsh. 



atomaria, Marsh. = Charybdis, Stal. 



consimilis, Baly = lutea, Marsh, (not previously noted). 



lutea (Baly, use Marsh.) = cegrota, Boisd. (not previously noted). 



quadriiyiacidata, ^Ibx^. = reticulata, Marsh., var. 



dilatata, Er., and incar7iata, Er., represent valid species. Mr. 

 Baly thought them probably synonyms of atomaria, Marsh., 

 and reticulata, Marsh. 



cegrota, Boisd., represents a valid species. Mr. Baly thought 

 it a synonym of lutea. Marsh. 



nigroscutata, Chp., probably equals Lownei, Baly. 



