680 REVISION OF THE GENUS PAROPSIS, 



10-seriatim punetulatis, puncturis in seriebus minus crebris, 

 intei'stitiis planis sulitiliter punetulatis, sutura postice per- 

 spicue carinata, parte marginali quam series externte baud 

 vel vix magis fortiter punctulata. 



^. Tarsorum anterioruni 4 articulo basali leviter dilatato, lateri- 

 bus parum rotundatis. Long. 2-3, lat. ]|-2 lines. 



This species is closely allied to the preceding one and the 

 following one. The system of colouration is very similar in the 

 three, consisting of a general testaceous or brownish surface, with 

 the elytral series often infuscate and the interstices usually dark 

 brown (more or less partially and interruptedly). In a typical 

 example of the present species the 5th, 7th, and 9th interstices 

 are dark except at the base and apex, but not so dark about their 

 middle as elsewhere. It differs from P. Calliope inter alia by the 

 considerably less coarser punctures of its elytral series, and from 

 P. iiif.ertincta, Cllc., by its prothorax being quite strongly 

 narrowed anteriorly. From the species which immediately 

 follow intertijicia it is very distinct both by the style of its 

 markings and by the middle part of its prosternum being (as in 

 the majority of Paropses) longitudinally sulcate almost from base 

 to apex, with the edges of the sulcus distinctly carinate, and from 

 r. coadnvta, Chp., by its elytral series of punctures being equally 

 (or nearly so) spaced one from another. 



N.S. Wales; taken by Mr. Lea at Dalmorton. 



P. INTERTINCTA, Clk. 



I have not seen an authentic type of this species, but I feel no 

 doubt as to the identity with it of a West Australian Paro2osis of 

 which numerous examples are before me, and of which the 

 structural characters are sufficiently indicated in the tabulation 

 at the commencement of the subgroup. The only discrepancy 

 I find between it and the description is in the form of the pro- 

 thorax, which Clark says is twice as wide as long, whereas in the 

 specimens I find the width is to the length as 2^ to 1, but pro- 

 bably Clark did not measure it. The insect is very variable in 



