438 Mr, Baly's descriptions of 



Head shining, sparingly impressed with fine punctures ; 

 antenna; rather slender, filiform, more than three fourths the 

 length of the body. Thorax nearly twice as broad as long, sides 

 rounded, nearly straight and parallel behind the middle ; the 

 hinder angles acute, the anterior ones sub-acute ; above convex, 

 smooth and shining, impressed on either side near the anterior 

 angle with a shallow fovea, disc rather sparingly impressed with 

 minute punctures. Elytra broadly oblong-ovate, convex, impres- 

 sed with very fine punctures irregularly arranged in longitudinal 

 striae; interstices shining impunctate. 



The genus Entomoscelis, although containing few species, is 

 remarkable for its wide geographical range, being found over the 

 Avhole of central and southern Europe, northern Africa and Asia 

 minor, in North America as far south as New York, in eastern 

 Siberia, and, as the present insect shews, in northern India. The 

 tropical and South African species placed by Dejean and Vogel 

 in Entomoscelis, belong to an entirely different generic group, 

 since characterized by myself, under the name of Mesoplatys, 



Genus PA HOPS IS, Oliv. 

 1. Faropsis ChcnneUi, n. sp. 



Late ovata, valde convexa, sordide fulva, nitida, thorace trans- 

 verso, sat crebre punctato, iitrinque excavato et varioloso- 

 punctato ; elytris punctato-striatis. Long. 4^ lin. 



Hab. Plains of Assam, a single specimen. 



Head coarsely punctured ; antenna? slender, scarcely exceeding 

 the head and thorax in length. Thorax nearly three times as 

 broad as long ; sides straight and nearly parallel from the base 

 to the middle, thence rounded and converging to the apex, the 

 anterior angles acute, submucronate ; apical margin deeply 

 excavated ; upper sm-face rather coarsely and closely punctured, 

 broadly excavated on either side near the outer margin, siu-face 

 of the excavations very coarsely and irregularly variolose- 

 punctate. Elj'tra broader than the thorax, very slightly dilated 

 posteriorly, broadly rounded at the apex, convex, regularly 

 punctate-striate, the interspaces minutely punctate, the foin-th, 

 sixth, eight and tenth obsoletely thickened ; outer limb narrow, 

 slightly reflexed, its surface concave, strongly and coarsely 

 punctured. 



