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Show 348 MR. M. JACOBY ON NEW [Julie 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 bebind, 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 emarginate at the middle, the anterior angles strongly produced in front, the sides rounded, narrowed towards the apex, the surface minutely and not very closely punctured on the disk, more strongly at the sides; the disk fulvous, with two large subquadrate black spots touching 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 purrctured, 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. hieroglyphica the elytra have three rows of black spots, if these are connected in a certain way the pattern peculiar to P. 12-maculata 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, n. Sp. Fulvous ; the antenna? (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. |
