BY REV. T. BLACKBURN. 643 



from the suture, while in others it is much neai'er to the external 

 margin. 



It will be observed that in the following descriptions I have in 

 some instances mentioned only characters in respect of which a 

 species differs from some other to which it is closely allied and 

 added the statement " cetera ut . . . " (an instance of this 

 occurs in the description of P. extranea). I have adopted this 

 course to avoid needless repetition, but it will be well to state 

 explicitly here that in every such case I have carefully compared 

 the insect on which the abbreviated description is founded with 

 the detailed description preceding it (in the case of I', extranea, 

 e.g., with the description of P. sternalis), and ascertained that the 

 whole of the detailed description aj^plies to it except in respect 

 of the characters noted in the abbreviated description. 



I divide this group of Paropsis (distinguished by having the 

 sides of the prothorax neither mucronate in front nor bisinuate, 

 and each elytron with about 20 rows of punctures and also some 

 verruca3) then into subgroups as follows : — 



A. Species with strongly marked cliaractera (as detailed in 



the tabulation of species) Subgroup i. 



AA. Species not referable to Section A. 



B. The greatest height of the insect (viewed from the 

 side) not or scarcely in front of the middle of the 

 elytral margin. 



C. Elytra depressed under the humeral callus Subgroup ii. 



CC. Elytra not depressed under the humeral ca)lu3. Subgroup iii. 

 BB. The greatest height of the insect (viewed from 

 the side) considerably in front of the middle of 

 the elytral margin Subgroup iv. 



This first part of my '• Revision of the genus Faropsis " deals 

 with the first three of the subgroups into which I divide the 

 group. I begin with a tabulated statement of the distincti^■e 

 characters of the species in Subgroup i., and then proceed to 

 furnish descriptions of the new species enumei'ated in the tabu- 

 lation. Afterwards I treat Subgroups ii. and iii. similarly. The 

 names printed in italics are the names of those species which I 

 have etermined by studying the descriptions without having 



