PEOPOMAORUS. 36{* 



necessary to deter iniue the real status of the two insects here 

 provisionally separated as Propomacrus henrici and gestroi. 



Key to the Species. 



1 (2) Pygidium clothed with short, close- 



lying hairs, long only at the extremity ; 

 elytra longer, with the widest part 

 before the middle, the pale blotches 

 confluent. 

 (S . Clypeus very short; terminalprocess 

 of the front tibia very long; femur 

 with an acute tooth near the middle . parry i, Gray, p. 369. 



2 (1) Pygidium clothed with long erect 



liairs ; elytra shorter, with the widest 

 part behind the middle, 

 c?. Clypeus longer; front femur with 

 a triangular lamina in front. 



3 (6) Moderately broad and compact ; pale 



blotches of the elytra scattered. 



4 (5) Elytra almost without pale longitu- 



dinal lines. 

 (S . Anterior half of the front tibia 

 strongly and abruptly curved, its 

 terminal process shorter than the 

 median process macleai/i, Hope, p. 373. 



5 (4) Elytra with pale longitudinal lines. 



c? . Anterior half of the front tibia 

 very gently and not abruptly curved, 

 its terminal process rather longer 

 than the median one henrici, Pouill., p. 375. 



6 (3) Very broad and compact ; pale blotches 



of the elytra confused and often 

 annular, 

 cj . Front tibia very gently curved, 

 its terminal process long gestroi, Pouill., p. 374. 



397. Propomacrus parryi. (Plate IV, fig. 41.) 



Cheirotonus parryi, Gray, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. v, 1848, p. 59 ; 



Pouillaude, Insecta, 1913, p. 473, fig. 7. 

 Propomacrus parryi, Deyr., Ann. Soc. Ent. France, (5) iv, 1874, 



p. 447, pi. ix, tigs. 4, 5, 6, & 10. 



Deep coppery-green or coppery-red, wWh the elytra almost 

 black, suSused with a slight metallic lustre, and decorated with 

 numerous crowded irregular orange-yellow blotches and longi- 

 tudinal streaks, more or less confluent, especially near the outer 

 margins. The sternum is rather thickly clothed with short 

 yellow hairs and the abdomen bears similar but still shorter hairs 

 at the sides only. The pygidium is thinly clothed with short 

 setse, but the female has also a tuft of long hairs at the apex. 



The body is rather elongate and very convex, with the head, 

 pronotum and femora moderately shining, the elytra opaque and 

 microscopically rugulose, broadest a little before the middle, with 



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