PAROPSIDES. 



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their apices and forming a very wide angle ; eyes convex and 

 placed obliquely. Antennae just passing the base of the prothorax, 

 sparsely sprinkled over with haip ; first segment club-shaped, 

 second small and rounded, third and fourth equal in length, fifth 

 and sixth similarly equal to each other, each of the next five 

 segments slightly thickened. Prothorax almost as broad as the 

 base of the elytra and more than twice as broad as long, front 

 margin widely emarginate, anterior angles more acute than the 



Fjg. 24. — Paropsides nigropunetata, Jacoby, $ . 



Fig. 25. — Paropsides nigropunctata, Jacoby. Prosternum, anterior coxae and 

 trochanters, and anterior part of mesosternum. 



posterior ones which are, in this species, widely rounded, sides 

 convex, basal margin more or less bisinuate ; upper surface greatly 

 convex from side to side and completely covered with punctures 

 which are more crowded and coarser at the sides than in the 

 middle. Scutellum triangular, with surface smooth and impunctate. 

 Elytra widening behind to a certain extent, the convex, .shining, 

 impunctate humerus covered by one of the large round black 



