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species ; when full grown they fall to the ground, burying them- 

 selves in the earth or rubbish, sometimes several inches beneath 

 the surface, at others having the last few segments of the 

 abdomen above the ground ; these stand out and are jerked about 

 rapidly if anything touches them ; in a week or ten days the pupa 

 turns into the perfect beetle and ascends the tree again. 



This is one of the large leaf Paropses ; the thorax and elytra 

 are shining, reddish-brown, with irregular spots of pale yellow 

 scattered all over, and very deeply punctured. 



Paropsis reticulata, Marsham, Trans. Linn. Soc. ix. p. 285, 

 t. 24, f. 2. 



Larva short, stout, pale yellow, with black markings on upper 

 side, legs long, robust ; head and first thoracic segment black, the 

 latter with narrow yellow margin on sides, second and third 

 thoracic segments and legs yellow, the first six abdominal ones 

 yellow with broad stripe of black on the sides, seventh and eighth 

 yellow with rounded black patch in centre, anal segment black ; 

 a broad parallel clouded black band containing four small black 

 tubercles on each segment traverses the centre of the back ; 

 under side pale yellow. 



The larvae feed upon the leaves of several species of Eucalypts, 

 gnawing them in a similar manner to the previous species, but 

 they cluster together much more when feeding ; they undergo 

 their metamorphoses in the ground. The eggs are laid in a ring 

 consisting of several rows round a slender twig ; they are long, 

 oval, enclosed in an outer brownish-yellow ribbed shell, surmounted 

 at each corner with a little curved horn. 



This beetle is the commonest Paropsis about Sydney ; the 

 thorax is pale yellow with a marbled pattern, the elytra palish 

 yellow, turning to reddish when dead, very finely and closely 

 reticulated. 



Calomela Bartoni, Baly, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1856, p. 245. 



Larva with the head, thorax, and legs black, with pale green 

 abdomen ; mouth parts and jaws black ; legs stout ; thorax 

 narrow ; the abdomen larger, rounded, almost globular. 



