500 REVISION OF THE GENUS PAROPSIS, 



In S. Australian specimens the colouring is as in the type, 

 except that all the elytral series are of dark colour (rarely extend- 

 ing to the interstices) and the humeral calli are of dark colour 

 also; the convexity of form is as in the 2nd of the races described 

 above, and the pi'othoracic puncturation is as in the Victorian 

 race. 



It should be noted that the distinction I have attributed to 

 each of these races cannot be said to be in all respects invariable, 

 rare examples from the Victorian mountains {e.g.) showing onlg 

 very feebly the characters that distinguish the Victorian Alpine 

 race from the 2nd of the races enumerated. 



Dr. Chapuis cites Tasmania as one of the localities of P. hectica 

 (and curiously enough omits N.S. Wales, — Boisduval's locality). 

 I have before me a specimen from Tasmania named " hectica " by 

 Dr. Chapuis, but I am of opinion that it is aurea; though unfor- 

 tunately it is so extremely old an example that I have been unable 

 to bring out its natural colours in even the slightest degree, and 

 its form being considerably distorted the determination of its 

 species is impracticable. I have, however, not seen hectica among 

 the numerous specimens of Paropsis that I have collected in 

 Tasmania, or received from Tasmanian collectors. 



P. SiMSOXi, sp.nov. 



Late ((J) vel minus late (9) ovalis ; modice convexa ; modice 



nitida; tota testacea ; exemplorum vivorum elytris in disco 



roseo- vel aureo-roseo-nitentibus; antennis sat gracilibus sat 



elongatis; capite crebre aspere nee ullo modo grosse punctu- 



lato; prothorace fere ut P. aurece sed sat ruguloso; elytris ut 



P. aurece sied interstitiis multo magis fortiter punctulatis, in 



his puncturis nonnullis quam serierum puncturte vix subtiliori- 



bus, sicut series minus perspicute sunt. Long. '2^-'i^ lines. 



This species diifers from aurea by its constantly smaller size, its 



different colouring (in dried examples the whole insect pale 



testaceous, in living ones the disc of the elytra suffused with a 



rosy or golden-rosy metallic gloss), its somewhat less nitid surface, 



its rugulose prothorax, and especially the very different sculpture 



