176 REVISION OF THE GENUS PAROPSIS, 



P. Hygea, sp.nov. 



Q. Ovata(apicem versus modicedilatata); modice nitida; minus 



fortiter convexa ; rufa, mandibulorum apice nigro ; capite 



acervatim sat fortiter (clypeo subtilius) punctulato; antennis 



quam corporis dimidium haud longioribus; prothorace quam 



longiori duplo latiori, in disco acervatim subfortiter (ad latera 



— his late subplanatis — grosse) punctulatis, angulis anticis 



mucronatis posticis rotundatis; elytris confuse minus fortiter 



crebre (quam P. variolosce, Marsh., fere magis crebre minus 



fortiter) punctulatis, puncturis suturam anticam versus 



multo subtilioribus, interstitiis antice transversim confuse 



elevatis postice crebre nee fortiter verrucosis, parte laterali 



oblique extrorsum modice directa; elytris quam conjunctim 



latioribus vix longioribus. Long. 8, lat. 6 lines. 



This species is slightly more convex (viewed from the side) 



than the preceding species, approaching thereby somewhat to the 



strongly convex aggregate. Its greatest height, however (viewed 



from the side) is distinctly less than half the length of its elytra 



(by measurement). It is at once separable from augusta, dehili- 



tata, Manto and montana by its entirely pale red colour (except 



the apex of the mandibles), even the antennae having no infusca- 



tion. Probably it varies in colour, but not, I am convinced, 



towards the colouring of under surface, legs, &c., of the species 



just named. Apart from colour, however, its elytra are more 



closely punctulate than those even of debilitata (a trifle more so 



than of variolosa); and it differs otherwise from debilitata by the 



much closer and stronger rugulosity of its elytra, especially near 



the apex, as well as by its greater convexity (at any rate in the 



Q). From those previously described species of the less convex 



aggregate which are not coloured like augusta, &c., it differs 



(apart from colour) as follows, inter alia : — From longicornis by 



its much shorter antennae in the same sex and less transverse 



prothorax (which is exactly twice as wide as long), from advena 



by its much larger size and much closer elytral puncturation, and 



from angusticoUis by its much broader form and infinitely more 



closely punctured pronotum. 



