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convexis) vix perspicue (vel subtilissime) punctulatis; cetera 

 ut P. rafohrunaea. 



^. Latet. 



The remarkable resemblance of this species in colour and 

 markings to P. rufobrunnea {Clnp.) Blackb., is so close as to make 

 one hesitate to consider it a distinct species, but its structural 

 characters are too well marked to allow of its being called a mere 

 variety. Compared with rufobrionnea it is considerably more 

 convex and much more nitid, with the front angles of the pro- 

 thorax acute, and the puncturation of the elytra quite different. 

 I have seen three specimens of this insect all quite identical and 

 a good many of rufobruwiiea, but no intermediate forms. If 

 such structural differences are possible within the limits of a 

 species it is difficult to say whether any Pca-opsis is a good species. 

 In placing this species in the tabulation I have assumed that the 

 sexual characters of the male are similar to those of ru/obrunnea, 

 if the basal joint of the anterior tarsi is narrower the species 

 would stand near nncea, Er., fi'om which its notably larger size, 

 elytral interstices scarcely convex in the ^j and different colouring 

 render it very distinct. 



N.S. Wales; from several localities. 



P. COMPLEXA, Chp. 



This species is too slightl}^ described for confident identification. 

 I have not seen an authentic type, but I take it to be identical 

 with a variable Paropsis, of which three examjjles are before me, 

 from Queensland and ISTorthern N.S. Wales. One of the examples 

 in question agrees fairly well with the description such as it is. 

 The prevailing colour of the upper surface is piceous with a 

 reddish tone (in one example the prothorax, and in two the head 

 being at their darkest part, — the disc, — red without any pitchy 

 shade). The sides of the prothorax, the basal part of the antennae, 

 the legs (these in some specimens a full brown colour) and on the 

 elytra some vittee (these very variable) which here and there 

 coalesce into large blotches (3 on each elytron in the specimens 

 before me) are testaceous. In one of the specimens before me 



