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me), and bear a very large and deep subcircular fovea. This 

 species moreover is common in Tasmania (the habitat quoted for 

 morio), and though I ha^'e collected in many parts of that island, 

 and received considerable collections from other collectors there, 

 I have seen no other Tasmanian Faropsis at all near it. Finally 

 I have before me an example of this insect from Dr. Chapuis 

 collection labelled ^' morio, Fab.," so that it is certainly the species 

 to which that learned author attributed the name. 



P. viTTiPENNis, Bohem. 



This is a very isolated species, but in my experience rare, and 

 occurring only near Sydney. It is of very large .size (long. 6-7 lines), 

 of a brownish-red colour except the elytra (which are black with 

 the alternate interstices reddish, narrower than the rest, and 

 slightly convex); there are also black markings (in some examples 

 ver}' indistinct) on the prothorax. The puncturation of the elytra 

 — both seriate and interstitial — is extremely fine, the seriate as 

 fine as the interstitial, and not running in distinct striai. The 

 few examples I have seen are all females, and do not show any 

 variation except in the distinctness of the prothoracic markings, 

 and the greater or less deep black of the underside. I have an 

 example named by Dr. Chapuis. P. octoUneata, Gory, is possibty 

 identical with this species. 



P. MERA, Chp. 



I have seen two females of this species — one of them named 

 by Dr. Chapuis, the other sent to me from ISI". Queensland. The 

 species is very close to heata, Newm. In the examples before 

 me, however, the spots on the elytra are considerably smaller 

 than in any specimen I have seen of heata, and the red lateral 

 margin is less sharply defined (in one of them very much less), 

 but the real distinction (so far as regards the 2) lies in the elytral 

 interstices of mera being distinctly convex, especially in the 

 hinder part. 



