492 REVISION OF THE GENUS PAROPSIS, 



the Chapuis collection ticketed ^ bimaculata,' from which I 

 suppose that Dr. Chapuis regarded the ordinary form as being P. 

 bimaculata, Oliv.; but he was certainly mistaken in that case, as 

 the ticketed specimen does not agree with Olivier's description, and 

 I have before me an undoubtedly distinct species which agrees 

 with that description perfectly. No doubt Chapuis had not seen 

 the true bimaculata, and thought that the specimen he ticketed 

 ' bimaculata ' was a variety of it (which, indeed, I should have 

 thought quite possible myself if I had not seen the species 

 mentioned below as bimaculata, Oliv.). My example of the form 

 described by Chapuis was taken in Tasmania (the locality cited by 

 the author) in company with numerous examples of the ordinary 

 form. 



P. agricola is closely allied to Cloelia, Stal, from which 

 (excluding colour) it differs principally by its considerably less 

 convex form and somewhat shorter and stouter antennae. Its 

 upper surface is testaceous or reddish-testaceous, the marginal 

 part of the elytra more or less conspicuously inclining to a dis- 

 tinctly yellowish or red colour. The base of the head is broadly 

 black (the black colour usvially reaching forward to the level of 

 the middle of the eyes) and the disc of the prothorax bears a 

 transverse series of irregular but sharply defined black blotches 

 (usually more or less confluent). The undersurface is black, with 

 the prosternum in some examples testaceous, and the legs are 

 testaceous (in some examples more or less marked with black). 

 The antennae are testaceous (becoming blackish from about the 

 middle in most examples). The sculpture in all parts closely 

 resembles that of P. Cloelia. Living specimens are obscurely 

 golden, chiefly around the scutellum. 



This is an extremely variable species, the variation usually 

 taking the form of increase in dark colouring, — so that it is 

 difficult to find two specimens absolutely alike. In some the 

 elytra are dark brown, with the margin widely red; in some the 

 elytra light or dark piceous, with the margins more or less widely 

 testaceous; till at last we reach the form described by Chapuis, in 

 which the upper surface may be described as black, with the 



