694 REVISION OF THE GENUS PAROPSIS, 



(latera versus sat grosse) punctulato, lateribus leviter arcuatis, 

 angulis anticis obtusis posticis subrectis; elytris baud striatis, 

 10-seriatim sat fortiter punctulatis, interstitiis planis dupli- 

 citer (subtiliter et sat fortiter) punctulatis, interstitioruni 

 puiicturis multis serierum similibus sicut series minus per- 

 spicufe apparent, sutura postice manifeste carinata ; parte 

 marginali quam series externa^ niagis grosse punctulata. 

 (J. Tarsorum anteriorum 4 articulo basali minus fortiter dila- 



tato. Long. 2, lat. If Hnes. 

 This species is more depressed than most of its allies. Dried 

 examples are entirely testaceous except the head, which is reddish 

 (in the only two examples I have seen the head is deeply sunk in 

 the prothorax, so that I am uncertain whether its hinder part is 

 darkly coloured), a small part of each antennal joint which is 

 infuscate, an ill-defined and faint infuscation near the apex of 

 each elytron, and the lateral sutures of the metasternum which 

 are infuscate. The suture of the elytra is absolutely concolorous 

 with the general surface. The best specific distinction lies in the 

 elytral puncturation which differs from that of suhajjicalis in the 

 presence of numerous interstitial punctures much larger than the 

 prevailing small ones, and from Are/Jiusa, lepida, mediovittata, 

 moJesta and /esfiv/i, by many of the interstitial punctures being 

 sufficiently like the seriate punctures to cause the series (especially 

 the discal ones) to appear somewhat indistinct and confused 

 among the interstitial punctures. From juciinda and scufifera 

 (which have interstitial puncturation more or less of the same 

 character) it differs — apart from the absence of coloured markings 

 on its elytra — by its less convexity and especially by the very 

 much coarser punctures of its elytral series (some of which, 

 especially near the front of the discal series, are so coarse that 

 the interstices between them are very much narrower than the 

 diameter of one of those punctures). 



W. Australia; taken by Mr. E. Meyrick. 



P. APICATA, Clk. C? 7iavicula, Chp.). 



"With this species commences the aggregate which seems to me 

 rightly placed at the end of this subgroup. Its species are 



