348 MR. M. JACOBY ON NEW [JunC 5, 



In this species the elytral punctuation, instead of being arranged 

 as in most of the allied forms, is irregular and the pattern differs 

 from any with which I am acquainted ; of the elytral spots, two are 

 common to both and placed across the suture below the middle. 



Paropsides nigrofasciatus, n. sp. 



Fulvous ; head and thorax with two black markings ; elytra finely 

 and irregularly punctured, each with two large subsutural spots, 

 placed longitudinally, and a sublateral band, abbreviated behind, 

 black. 



Var. a. The posterior subsutural spot wanting. 



Var. b. This spot present only. 



Var. c. Entirely fulvous, the thorax with some small piceous spots ; 

 elytra with a small black humeral spot. 



Length 5-6 lines. 



Head finely punctured, with a central impressed groove, fulvous, 

 the base with two large black spots, the anterior margin of the 

 clypeus and the apex of the jaws also black. Antennae short, entirely 

 fulvous, the apical joint thickened. Thorax three times broader than 

 long, the anterior margin deeply emarginale at the middle, the 

 anterior angles strongly produced in front, the sides i-ounded, narrowed 

 towards the apex, the surface minutely and not very closely punc- 

 tured on the disk, more strongly at the sides ; the disk fulvous, with 

 two large subquadrate black spots touchiug the base and leaving a 

 narrow line of the ground-colour between them ; scutellum fulvous. 

 Elytra convex, widened towards the middle, impressed with rather 

 small punctures, partly arranged in lines, the interspaces also very 

 finely punctured, the lateral margin accompanied by several rows of 

 deeper punctures, each elytron with two large elongate spots, placed 

 longitudinally near the suture and a longitudinal band (often narrowed 

 or interrupted at the middle) extending from the shoulder to below 

 the middle near the lateral margin. Underside and legs fulvous, 

 the abdomen often spotted with black ; claws appendiculate, the 

 inner division very long. 



Paropsides hieroglyphica, Gebl. 



Paropsides 12-maculata, Gebl. 



Both these species were obtained at Foochow, and I am very 

 much inclined to believe that one is only a variety of the other, since 

 I cannot find any differences except that of colour ; in P. hierogly- 

 phica the elytra have three rows of black spots, if these are connected 

 in a certain way the pattern peculiar to F. \2-inaculata is produced, 

 in the same way as in many species of Cryptocephali ; the underside 

 in one species (P. hieroglyphica) is fulvous, in the other black. 



EUSTETHA THORACICA, U. Sp. 



Fulvous ; the antennse (the three basal joints excepted), the breast, 

 and legs black ; head with one, thorax with four, black spots ; elytra 

 dark violaceous blue, closely and strongly punctured. 



