G64 REVISION OF THE GENUS PAROPSIS, 



I have placed in Subgroup i.). The antennje are slender cylindric 

 and decidedly elongate. The basal joint of the 4 anterior tarsi 

 in the ^ is very strongly dilated, with its sides strongly rounded 

 {not much different from that of intacta, Newm.). The colour 

 varies from castaneous with the margins of the j^rothorax and 

 elytra pale yellow, and the elytral strife dark ferruginous, through 

 a form in which the disc of the prothorax is more or less clouded 

 with piceous and the elytra become blackish in the lateral parts 

 of the disc, to a form in which the whole upper surface (excejDt 

 the front of the head and the margins of the prothorax and elytra) 

 is nearly black. The under surface and legs vary from 

 ferruginous to piceous, the antenna? (apparently constantly) being 

 somewhat lighter in colour than the legs. The species is common 

 in Tasmania. I have not seen it from other localities, except a 

 single specimen in Mr. Masters' collection ticketed "N.S.W." 



P. LINEATA, Marsh. 



This species is closely allied to P. stibcoslata, Clip. It differs 

 from it in being of even more depressed form, and in the sculpture, 

 as well as in colour and markings. The prothorax has scarcely 

 any indication of fovete (in some examples none at all), and is 

 much less closely punctulate, the punctures in the lateral part 

 being (not crowded and .sub-confluent as in suhcostata, but) widely 

 spaced from one another. The elytral sculpture does not differ 

 much from that of subcostata except in the punctures of the stride 

 running quite symmetrically in " single file," while in suhcosfata 

 those punctures are very irregular (many of them out of line with 

 the others, and in many places two being placed side by side). 

 Usually the whole upper surface is piceous, with the 2nd (at least 

 at the base), the 4th (except in its front part), the 7th (at its 

 base) and the 10th (entirely) interstices red or yellow. There 

 are in occasional specimens red or yellow marks on some of the 

 other interstices, and I have seen a single example in which the 

 whole upper surface is uniformly ferruginous. The tarsi and 

 antennae are very similar to those of suhcostata. I have a 

 specimen that has been compared with the ticketed type in the 



