250 REVISION OF THE GENUS PAROPSIS, 



(J. Tarsorum anticorum 4 articulo basali minus fortiter dilatato. 

 Long. 4, lat. 3 lines. 



The comparatively slender and elongate front tibise of this species 

 suggest a doubt whether it might not be regarded as generically 

 distinct from Paropsis, but I cannot find any other peculiarity on 

 which to found a new genus. It is the only species known to me 

 of this subgroup having the prosternum not sulcate, but that 

 character is found also in several isolated species pertaining to 

 other aggregates in the genus and not otherwise resembling the 

 present one. The apical joint of the maxillary palpi is of the 

 form that seems to characterise Paropsis essentially among its 

 near allies. 



N. S. Wales; Richmond River; taken by Mr. Lea. 



SUBGROUP 11. 



In this subgroup the punctures in the elytral series are more or 

 less irregularly placed; the interval between puncture and punc- 

 ture is at least considerably greater than the diameter of a 

 puncture and is for the most part as great as the width of the 

 adjacent interstice. In most of the species the fine interstitial 

 puncturation extends itself to the intervals between puncture and 

 puncture of the series and in some examples seems to be there a 

 trifle less fine than in the interstices. The species are all com- 

 paratively small and of more or less subhemispheric shape, of 

 chiefly testaceous colouring and with their elytra mottled or 

 speckled with brown or black. The sexual characters are very 

 slight, — scarcely more than that the males have their usual tarsal 

 character and also are of somewhat wider more subcircular form. 

 From the following tabulation I have been obliged to omit two 

 names that have been given to species doubtless belonging to this 

 subgroup (pluvialis, Chp., and nigrostiUata, Chp.) but concerning 

 which I offer some remarks below. 



A. Prothorax with an elongate longitudhial sulcus close 



to its lateral margins tessellata, Clk. (?). 



AA. Prothorax devoid of a submarginal sulcus. 



