248 REVISION OF THE GENUS PAROPSIS, 



(?. Fere subhemisphserica, tarsorum anticorum articulo basali 

 sat dilatato (quam P. intactm, Newm. sat minore) inter- 

 mediorum perspicue magis angusto, 



Q. Latissime ovata. Long. 5, lat. 4 lines (vix). 



An isolated species which does not look at home in this sub- 

 group, but seems to be nearly allied to P. variabilis, Clip. Its 

 prothoracic fovesfi, however, though feebly impressed and its flat 

 elytral suture require it to be placed here. I have seen only two 

 examples (both in my own collection), and judging from them I 

 should say that the two very conspicuous blackish spots on each 

 elytron which are very sharply defined and probably constant 

 mi^ht be relied upon to render this an easily recognisable species. 



S. Australia; Eyre's Peninsula. 



P. NIGROVITTATA, Clip. 



This species is uniformly testaceous or testaceous-brown, except 

 on the elytra, where the seriate punctures run on narrow black 

 lines. It is of very strongly convex subhemispheric form, and 

 easily i-ecognisable by the characters cited in the tabulation. Its 

 size is 4-4-^ lines, and it is found in N.S. Wales, S. Australia, the 

 south-east of Western Australia, and probably Victoria. 



P. VARIABILIS, Chp. 



An extremely variable species connecting the present subgroup 

 with the 4th through the absence of prothoracic foveas combined 

 with a distinct tendency to carination in the hinder part of the 

 suture. But it so evidently resembles the preceding and other 

 species (fi.r/., intacta) in general appearance that it cannot rightly 

 be far removed from them. It is entirely testaceous except that 

 the seriate punctures are placed on fine (often interrupted) black 

 lines, and the interstices are in many examples and very 

 variably blotched with black. The blotches on the interstices 

 have a tendency to fall into line transversely so as to present the 

 appearance of fasciae. The head also is in some examples marked 

 with fuscous or blackish colour. On account of the carination of 

 the suture without the presence of prothoracic fovea; this species 



