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 Avith 

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

 sed Avith very fine punctures irregularly arranged in longitudinal 

 stria;; interstices shining impunctatc. 



The genus Entomoscelis, although containing few species, is 

 remarkable for its wide geographical range, being found over the 

 Avhole of central and southern EurojrJC, northern Africa and Asia 

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

 Silieria, and, as the present insect sheAVS, 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 ]\[esoplatijs. 



Genus PAUOPSis, Oliv. 

 1. Paropsis Chennelli, n. sp. 



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

 verso, sat crebre punctato, utrinque 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 surface rather coarsely and closely punctured, 

 broadly excavated on either side near the outer margin, surface 

 of the excavations very coarsely and irregularly variolose- 

 punctate. Elytra broader than the thorax, very slightly dilated 

 posteriorly, broadly rounded at the apex, convex, regularly 

 punctate-striate, the interspaces minutely punctate, the fourth, 

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

 slightly reflexed, its surface concave, strongly and coarsely 

 punctured. 



