258 Mr. C. J. Gahan's adcUHons to the 



Par y sat is perplexa, sp. n. 



Augusta, pube fulvo-brimnea sat dense obtecta ; prothoraee 

 lateraliter minute obtuseque tuberculato, supra sparsim punctato; 

 elvtris modice sat irregulariterque punctatis, apicibus truncatis. 

 Long. 12, lat. 3 mm. 



Hah. Mexico, Cuernavaca in Morelos (Hoge). 



Clothed with nearly uniform tawny brown pubescence. Pro- 

 thorax feebly and somewhat obtusely tubercled on the middle of 

 each side ; sparsely and not very strongly punctured above along 

 each side of a longitudinal median smooth space. Elytra mode- 

 rately and somewhat irregularly punctured ; each with a feebly 

 raised longitudinal costa at a short distance from the suture, and 

 with a few almost obsolete lines external to it. Apices of the 

 elytra truncate. Antennae a little longer than the body; the scape 

 about a fourth shorter than the third joint ; the joints succeeding 

 the third each narrowly ringed with pale grey at the base. Upper 

 side of tarsi greyish. 



This species may be recognised by its nearly uniform 

 fulvous brown pubescence, combined with its moderate 

 and somewhat irregular punctuation. (The punctures 

 of the elytra, though placed along definite lines, are at 

 very irregular intervals ; so that an appearance of 

 irregularity is given to their whole distribution.) In 

 general facies the species more nearly resembles Esthlo- 

 (fcna aVnsetosa than any species of Pari/satis, but the 

 presence of a narrow cicatrice at the apex of the scape 

 requires that it should be placed in the latter genus. 



Parysatis nigritarsis, Thoms. 



Physis., ii., p. 120. 



= Parijsatis Jiavescens, Bates, Biologia C. A., Col., v., 

 p.' 112. 



The Central American examples from which Bates 

 described P. Jiavescens are specifically identical with 

 specimens from Brazil and Bolivia in the British ]\Iuseum 

 collection. The latter answer very well to Thomson's 

 description, and moreover carry the manuscript name 

 Ilebestola nigritarsis of Chevrolat, which has been quoted 

 bv Thomson. 



