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Thus there remain fifty-one names of ah'eady described species 

 which appear to me likely to stand as valid. Of these I believe 

 that I have before me examples of all except three, viz. (a) P. 

 formosa, Clip., which appears to be a very remarkable Paropsis, 

 having an oblique costa on the hinder part of the elytra. Its 

 prothorax is described as bisinuate laterally, but in other respects 

 the description does not furnish particulars that would enable 

 me to place it in my tabulation. (6) P. Parryi, Baly, a large 

 species believed to have been taken in tropical Australia, which 

 is probably near my P. Hygea, but seems to have the elytra 

 sculptured differently from the elytra of that species, (c) P. pan- 

 therina, Fauv., a species said to have been found at Sydney and 

 to be very rare; as it is not compared with any other species, 

 there is much difficulty in forming any clear idea of it; the sides 

 of its prothorax are described as strongly sinuate in front of the 

 middle, and I cannot find any definite character ascribed to it by 

 which it could be distinguished from P. obsoleta, Marsh., with a 

 strongly coloured specimen of which the markings attributed to 

 P. pantherina agree very accurately, but it seems difficult to 

 believe that anyone describing new Paropses would be unac- 

 quainted with so common an one as P. obsoleta. 



In the following pages I describe twelve new species belonging 

 to this Group, making the total number of species sixty- three, 

 and the total enumerated in the tabulation sixty: — 



A. Apical angles of prothorax mucronate, its sides 

 otherwise normal (or scarcely sinuate). 

 B. Discal sculpture of hinder half of elytra includes 

 some verrucfe or elevated interstices. 

 C, Under surface deep black, variegated (if at 

 all) with sharply limited pale colouring. 

 D. Elytra feebly convex longitudinally, fully 

 twice as long as high (viewed from the 

 side). 

 E. Elytral sculpture but little enfeebled 



around scutellum augnsta, Blackb. 



EE. Elytral sculpture much enfeebled 

 around scutellum. 



