■692 KEVISION OF THE GENUS PAROPSIS, 



abbi"eviated behind) and a discal vitta (strongly emarginate in 

 the middle and running from the humeral callus to the apex of 

 the dark colouring of the suture which it joins), black], and the 

 underside (except the margins of the abdomen), the antennje 

 (except joints 2-4), and the legs (except the tarsi and apical part 

 of the tibife) black. In most specimens, however, some or all of 

 the following variations are found, viz., the head more or less red, 

 the sutural vitta strongly dilated about its middle, the middle 

 (emarginate) part of the discal vitta wanting on the elytra (so 

 that the vitta is widely interrupted), an additional black blotch 

 near the middle of the lateral margin of the elytra, the under- 

 surface and legs more or less red. The form is only moderately 

 convex; the elytra are non striate with the 10 series of punctures 

 very well defined but not at all coarse, the interstices finel}' 

 punctured and having a good many punctures much larger (and 

 running in rows) than the fine ones. The basal joint of the 

 anterior 4 tarsi of the male is only moderately dilated. The 

 species occurs in N.S. Wales, Victoria, and S. Australia. Its 

 size is long. l|-2 lines. 



P. JUCDXDA, Chp. 



A widely oval, but not strongly convex species. Its colour is 

 testaceous, with the following marks black or blackish, viz.: — the 

 head; on the elytra a scutellar spot (and in some examples the 

 scutellum), a jjostmedian spot on the suture, a humeral spot, a 

 median discal spot, and an elongate submarginal blotch near the 

 apex; dull variable portions of the under surface and legs. The 

 antennal joints are more or less marked with fuscous. The elytral 

 ' markings are subject to considerable variety, especially in their size 

 and intensity of colouring ; also the median discal spot is absent 

 in some examples, and in other examples there is a small spot on 

 each elytron between the scutellar and humeral spots. The inter- 

 stices have no (or at any rate only a few) punctures as large as 

 those of the series, but there are a good many sufficiently near 

 the latter in size (and placed, moreover, about as closely inter se 

 as the latter are) to cause the puncturation of the elytra to appear 



