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REVISION OF THE GENUS PAROPSIS. 

 Bv Rev. T. Blackburn, B.A , Corresponding Member. 



Part IV. 

 Subgroup iv. 



[Of the species forming Group vi. (as characteri&ed in P.L.S.N.S.W. 1S96, 



p. 638) of the genus.] 



This subgroup is distinguished fi'om the preceding ones as 

 follows : — From the 1st by its eljtral suture carinate behind 

 (where the suture is exceptionally non-carinate the size is very 

 small and the prothorax is non-foveolate), — from the 2nd by the 

 comparatively close punctures of its elytral series, —and from the 

 3rd by the punctures of the elytral series (or at any rate of most 

 of them) being much larger than of the adjacent interstices (the 

 species where this character is least conspicuous are at once 

 distinguishable from those of Subgroup iii. by their very small 

 size); it is distinguished from Subgroup v. by its not presenting 

 the following charactei's in combination, viz , elytra (viewed from 

 the side) descending much below their point of contact with the 

 hind angles of the prothorax, and hind angles of prothorax quite 

 rounded off; and from Subgroup vi. by the head not being 

 strongly produced in front of the eyes. 



I find that there are 56 names which must be regarded as 

 having been founded on species belonging to this subgroup. I 

 treat 10 of these as mere synonyms, although in the case of a few 

 of them I have noted (below) the existence of some uncertainty in 

 doing so. This synonym}' is as follows: — viVer?.*, Clip. = Hera, Stal; 

 orphayiula, Clip, —oriihaita, Er. ; cnnea, Blackb. = a;7ieipen7ds, Chp.; 

 trifascidta, Boisd. = minor. Marsh; tritceniata,yii'dl, a.nd fr-aterna, 

 Ch^. — lepida, Er.; sanguineotincta, Clk., and amoenula, Chp. = 

 scutifera, White; navicula, Ch.]). = apicaia, Clk.; viridula, Chp. 

 = chlorotica, Oliv. 



