170 REVISION OF THE GENUS PAROPSIS 



arcuatis haud deplanatis, angulis posticis rotundato-obtusis; 

 scutello sat lajvi; elytris sub callum humeralem vix depressis, 

 pone basin vix impressis, crebre subfortiter minus seriatim 

 sat fequaliter punctulatis, verrucis numerosis (his sat confuse 

 dispositis, ut superficies punctulatis, vix elevatis) instructis, 

 interstitiis minus rugulosis, parte marginali a disco vix 

 distincta, calli humeralis margine interno a sutura quam ab 

 elytrorum margine laterali sat multo magis distanti; segmento 

 ventrali basali subfortiter (maris quam feminse minus crebre) 

 punctulato. Long. 3f , lat. 3 lines. 

 Easily distinguished from nearly all its congeners by its elytral 

 puncturation being continuoas over the surface of the scarcely 

 elevated verrucfe. I have before me an example in which the 

 dark markings of the prothorax are wanting and another in 

 which the elytral verruca; are distinctly elevated, but I think 

 them mere varieties. The external spots on the prothorax are 

 on the basal (and near the lateral) margins, the other two on 

 either side of the middle of the disc. There is no notable differ- 

 ence between the sexes other than the usual ones. 



N.S. Wales; taken by Mr. Lea: also taken in Victoria by Miss 

 Waterhouse. 



P. BLANDA, sp.nOV. 



Pra3cedenti (P. punctipenni) affinis; etiara magis convexa; pro- 



thoracis partibus piceis valde disparibus, elytrorum sutura 



antice late nigra (colore nigro ante medium suture dilatato) 



et disco maculis nigris plus minusve variegato. Long. 3|, 



lat. 3 lines. 



This insect does not appear to be a mere variety of puncti- 



pennis, though unquestionably very close to it. It is to be noted 



that the two examples before me were taken in the far north of 



N.S. Wales, while those of pnnctipennis are all from localities 



south of Sydney. The markings of the prothorax are too widely 



different to be only a development of colour. In the most 



strongly marked pnnctipennis these consist of four conspicuous 



dark spots placed in the line of a curve with its two extremities 



on the base; in hlanda the prothorax is best described as black 



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