510 REVISION OF THE GENUS PAROPSIS, 



lateribus arcuatis; elytiis vix sti'iatis, puncturis parvis sat 

 symmetrice sat crebre in seriebus 10 positis, interstitiis sat 

 planis crebre subtiliter punctulatis, parte laterali ut P. 

 gloriosce; exemplis siccis fere totis testaceis. Long. 3, lat. 

 2f lines. 

 The metallic markings on the disc of each elytron are — two 

 basal spots (the inner one not quite touching the base, and 

 smaller than the corresponding spot in yloriosa and uohUitata); an 

 elongate spot placed near the suture (slightly in front of the 

 middle of the elytron) and directed from the suture outward and 

 slightly/brwarc?(the cori'esponding blotch in gloriosa and nobilitata 

 is much lai'ger and is directed outward and hindward); a small 

 elongate spot placed longitudinally on the 5th interstice consider- 

 ably behind the middle of its length; a still smaller spot placed 

 about on the 3rd interstice near its apex; and a vitta margining 

 the disc externally and somewhat angularly dilated in front of, 

 at, and behind, the middle of its length. Dried specimens are 

 extremely like nobilitata and gloriosa, but are distinguishable by 

 the presence of a basal black spot on the head (reaching forward 

 about to the level of the hind margin of the eyes). I have seen 

 a good many specimens of this insect and do not find its mai'kings 

 variable. The discal markings of the elytra (exclusive of the 

 basal ones) are so placed that they would all lie on the circum- 

 ference of a circle having its centre on the suture about half-way 

 between the middle and the apex. 

 N.S, Wales; Queanbeyan (Mr. Lea). 



P. GLORIOSA, sp.nov. 



Late ovalis; modice convexa; testacea, elytrorum disco abdo- 

 mineque rufescentibus, illis maculis nonnullis splendide 

 aureo- vel viridi-metallicis ornatis [sc. macula magna basali 

 prope scutellum altera parva basali prope humerum sitis, 

 fascia lata obliqua vix pone medium sita (hac extrorsum et 

 retrorsum directa, nee suturam nee disci marginem lateralem 

 attingenti), fascia subapicali (hac fascias submedianas simili 

 sed angustiori), et maculis 2 in disci margine laterali sitis], 



