242 REVISION OF THE GENUS PAROPSIS, 



The type of Frof/gatti certainly seems to differ from all the other 

 examples I have seen by the strong convexity of its elytral inter- 

 stices, but I am disposed to think it an abnormal specimen as I 

 have since seen examples from the same locality in which the 

 interstices are not convex. P. Intacta i(ai<AvAva.g polijrjlypta and 

 Frogc/atti) may be known (among the Paropses having strong 

 prothoracic fovese and 10 strongly defined elytral stripe) by its 

 long slender antennte in combination with very strongly dilated 

 basal joints to the 4 anterior tarsi of the ^, those of the inter- 

 mediate and front tarsi being similar to each other. Its upper 

 surface varies from testaceous to a clear brown, the head bears a 

 black spot of variable size between the eyes, the prothorax has a 

 large discal black spot and a smaller one (or two placed longi- 

 tudinally and connected or not) on either side, the elytra bear 10 

 well-defined black punctulate striae, the interstices are unicolorous 

 and usually more distinctly punctulate in the male than the 

 female, the under surface varies from testaceous to black, the 

 legs are testaceous, the antennae are testaceous near the base and 

 infuscate beyond, and the humeral calli are black. The males 

 are much smaller (long. 5-6 lines) than the females (long. 6|-7|^ 

 lines) and are of wide subcircular form while the females are 

 ovate and subelongate. The specimens from South and South- 

 West Australia are usually of the lightest colour {P. pohjylyfta^ 

 Germ.), those from high elevations in the Alpine regions the 

 darkest (^P. Froggatti, Blackb.). I have not seen this species 

 from Queensland, Tasmania, or Western Australia. The species 

 most resembling intacta superficially, differ in the male tarsi, and 

 usually in the black lines of their elytral stri« irregular or the 

 elytral interstices blotched with black or various shades of brown. 

 I have not seen any variety of hitacta in which the black stria; 

 are irregular or the interstices other than unicolorous. The 

 apical ventral segment of the male is very narrowly declivous at 



its apex. 



P. INTERLITA, Newm. 



The colour and markings in this species are of the same type as 

 in P. intacta, Newm., from which, however, it is readil}^ separated 



