688 REVISION OF THE GENUS PAROPSIS, 



sanguinea vel fusca; capite crebre minus subtiliter punctu- 

 lato ; antennarum articulo basali bi'evi ; prothorace quam 

 longiori duplo latiori, fere tequali, crebre subtilius (acl latera 

 sat grosse) punctulato, lateribus parum arcuatis, angulis 

 anticis obtusis paruna prominulis posticis subrectis; elytris 

 antice vix (postice sat perspioue; striatis, 10-seriatim sub- 

 fortiter punctulatis, serie 7'^ basin cis callum humeralem 

 attingenti, interstitiis sat planis (ad apicein versus manifesto 

 convexis) sat crebre minus subtiliter punctulatis, sutura 

 postice carinata, parte marginali quam series externte multo 

 minus fortiter (puncturis perpaucis magnis exceptis) punc- 

 tulata. 

 ^. Tarsorum anteriorum 4 articulo basali sat fortiter dilatato, 

 lateribus sat rotundatis. Long. 2-2i, lat. 1^^^^ lines. 



This is a ver}' isolated and easily recognisable species on account 

 •of the peculiar arrangement of the seriate punctures of its elytra, 

 the 7th series running distinctly to the base on the inner slope of 

 the very feeble humeral callus, whereas in almost all the other 

 species of the group the 7th series stops immediately heliiiid the 

 middle of the humeral callus. In an.via, Chp., and iiir/rocon- 

 spersri, Clk., the 7th series runs much as it does in the present 

 species, but is not so distinctly continuous quite to the base. 



W. Australia; sent by Mr. Meyrick fi-om Champion Bay, and 

 subsequently by Mr. Lea. 



P. SUBAPICALIS, Chp. 



Although I have placed this species in the foregoing tabula- 

 tion at the commencement of the aggregate distinguished (among 

 those having the basal joint of the antenn;i3 very short and the 

 prosternum normal) by the elytral interstices having their punc- 

 tviration for the most part seriate, or at any rate including 

 numerous punctures much coarser than others, yet in i-eality it is 

 intermediate between that aggregate and the preceding one (in 

 which the punctures of the interstices are non-seriate and of equal 

 or nearly equal size inter se). On careful examination there is 

 no difficulty in finding a good many coarse punctures (especially 



