24:4 EEVISION OF THE GENUS PAROPSIS, 



that on the head to become obsolete. The extreme variety in a 

 long series before me has the upper surface testaceous-hrown. 

 The marginal region of the elytra is in many examples of lighter 

 colour than the disc. I have several specimens named by Dr. 

 Chapuis. The elytral interstices are scarcely (^) or distinctly ($) 

 convex. The species inhabits Tasmania, Victoria, and N. S. 

 Wales. 



P. SUBCINCTA, Sp.nov. 



Fortiter convexa ; nitida ; nigra vix senescens, antennis (his 

 apicem versus infuscatis) labro palpis tarsis (nonnullorum 

 exemplorum tibiis) et prothoracis elytrorum abdominisque 

 lateribus (anguste) rufo-testaceis; capite brevi fortius minus 

 crebre punctulato, sutura clypeali minus distincta; prothorace 

 quam longiori ut 2| ad 1 latiori, ab apice fere ad basin 

 dilatato, latera versus fovea leviter impressa (vel vix mani- 

 festa) instructo, lateribus modice arcuatis, angulis posticis 

 obtusis, disco subtiliter (lateribus fortiter sat crebre) punc- 

 tulato; scutello liBvi; elytris vix striatis, 10-seriatim punc- 

 tulatis, serierum puncturis minus parvis (quam P. 7iigerrimce, 

 Germ, paullo majoribus) subsparsim (quam P. cirGU7ndatce, 

 Newm. minus crebre) dispositis postice obsoletis, interstitiis 

 planis subtiliter punctulatis, • parte marginali quam series 

 minus fortiter punctulata. 

 (J. Subcircularis; 9 late ovata. Long. 3^-i, lat. 2|-3l lines. 

 This and the following two species are among the difficulties of 

 classification that seem inevitable in a vast genus such as 

 Faropsis, inasmuch as they do not fall quite satisfactorily into 

 any of my " subgroups." The prothoracic impressions are much 

 feebler than in most species of subgroup i., (in some examples 

 thev are scax-cely traceable) and the elytral suture in irma is 

 convex behind, though not narrowly carinate. If they were 

 excluded from the present subgroup they wou.ld fall into sub- 

 group iv., but as their general characters seem on the whole to 

 ally them (at any rate subcinctn and circuindata) more with 

 nigerrima than any other Paropsis, I have placed them here. 

 Their very short wide head with its front little produced beyond 



