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wide, strongly convex, feebly projecting, and closer to each other on 

 the vertex than at the front. Pronotum \Yider than long, wider in 

 front than behind ; anterior margin and base more or less bisinuate ; 

 sides feebly attenuate posteriorly ; disk without a longitudinal median 

 sulcus. Scutellum small, transverse, and not acuminate posteriorly. 

 Elytra elongate, strongly attenuate posteriorly, and acuminate at 

 apex. Sternal cavity formed by the mesosternum and metasternum ; 

 mesosternum divided, the lateral branches rather small, elongate, and 

 feebly oblique; metasternum feebly emarginate in front and with a 

 very narrow groove at the middle. Prosternum moderately wide, 

 convex, with the anterior margin rounded ; prostemal process feebly 

 constricted by the anterior coxal cavities, and rather acuminate at 

 apex. Posterior coxae about equally dilated internally and at the 

 sides; anterior margin strongly bisinuate; posterior margin deeply 

 arcuately emarginate at the middle. Legs moderately robust ; femora 

 slightly swollen at middle ; tibiae straight and subcylindrical : tarsi 

 short, first joint of posterior pair only slightly longer than the 

 second; tarsal claws with an obtuse tooth at the base. Abdomen 

 with the suture between the first and second segments distinct. Body 

 narrow, subcylindrical, and strongly acuminate posteriorly. 



Genotype. — Paracinyra viridimaculata, new species. 



This genus is closely allied to Cinyra Castelnau and Gory, but it 

 is much narrower and more cylindrical in form, pronotum wider in 

 front than behind, and not distinctly sulcate at the middle, tips of 

 the elytron strongly acuminate, prosternal process more strongly ex- 

 panded behind the anterior coxal cavities, and the first joint of the 

 posterior tarsi only slightly longer than the second joint. 



PARACINYRA VIRIDIMACULATA. new species 



Form narrow and subcylindrical, broadly rounded in fi>ont, and 

 strongly acuminate behind; head purpureous. with a strong green- 

 ish tinge, and with the epistoma and a narrow margin along the 

 eyes aureo-cupreous; pronotum purpureous, strongly greenish when 

 viewed in certain lights, and with the anterior margin and a rather 

 broad longitudinal median band aureo-cupreous; scutellum reddish- 

 cupreous; elytra purpureous, with a strong greenish tinge when 

 viewed in certain lights, and each elytron ornamented with aureo- 

 viridis markings as follows : A narrow band along the base extend- 

 ing along the lateral margin for a short distance and also along the 

 suture to the basal fourth; an irregular subtriangular spot at basal 

 third, feebly oblique but not extending to the suture nor lateral 

 margin ; a narrower band at apical third, which is transverse laterally 

 and bent obliquely forward internally, the spot not extending to the 

 lateral margin nor to the suture ; there is also a longitudinal triangu- 



