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times as Avide as long. The general surface is not very nitid. 

 The antennfe are filiform, joints 5-10 very little dilated towards 

 the apex. I have not found much variety in the colouring of 

 this species except in the seriate punctures; it is to be noted, 

 liowever, that the basal black colouring of the head is not visible 

 .unless the head is considerably extruded. The cloudy fuscous 

 blotches on the prothorax are in some examples scarcely trace- 

 able. There is not much difference between the sexes apart from 

 the characters common to the genus. The 4th joint of the 

 antennse is quite noticeably (l^ut not much) shorter than the 3rd 



joint. 



P. Cloelia, Stal. 



This species is really very close to P. variicoUis, Clip., varieties 

 of it differing very little from variicoUis even in colour, except in 

 the black at the base of the head being absent, or at least much 

 further back, and the upper surface being of a livid testaceous 

 tone (not of the yellowish or reddish tint that appears to be invari- 

 able in variicoUis). Typical examples are testaceous on the upper 

 surface except the elytra which are piceous or black with the 

 basal, lateral and apical margins more or less conspicuously 

 testaceous, the undersurface and legs more or less black, the 

 antennae testaceous becoming piceous or black beyond the middle. 

 Apart from colour, the head (including the antennte), prothorax 

 and scutellum do not differ much from those of variicoUis ; but the 

 elytra are scarcely striate, their seriate punctures notably tiner 

 and non-crenulate, and their interstices flat and more feebly 

 punctulate. I possess an example of this species from the Chapuis 

 collection ticketed ' Paropsis Cloelia,' and some others which I 

 took in the Alpine district of Victoria. Its measurements are: 

 long. 4, lat. 3i lines. Living specimens show some obscure golden 

 colouring chiefly on the disc of the prothorax and around the 

 scutellum. 



P. AGRICOLA, Chp. 



This name was unfortunately given to an exti'eme form of a 

 species whose ordinary form does not appear to have been 

 described at all. I possess an example of the ordinary form from 



