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than twice as wide as long), and from iniontana (its nearest ally) 

 by its less convexity (viewed from the side) and by the different 

 puncturation of its el3"tra (which is very little enfeebled around 

 the front part of the suture, but considerably so a little further 

 from the base, while in montana it is considerably enfeebled on 

 the whole front half of the subsutural region). 



This is the species that I formerly regarded as P. Parryi, Baly, 

 and with hesitation called by that name when I described some 

 new species of Paropsis in Trans. Roy. Soc. S. A., 1894, pp. 226, etc. 

 I am now quite satisfied to the contrary. Baly describes Parryi 

 as " valde convexa," and uses the phrase -'convexa" for some 

 Parojises that are less convex than others, which is quite con- 

 clusive, as the present species is about the least convex in this 

 group of the genus. Moreover the largest size mentioned by 

 Baly for Parryi would make it smaller than the smallest example 

 that I have seen of this insect. And yet again Baly says that 

 Parryi " probably came from Northern Australia" (apparently 

 because he found it placed among other species that were certainly 

 from Northern Australia), whereas the present insect is found in 

 Victoria and Southern N.S. Wales. The proportions of its elytra, 

 &c., do not agree with those Baly attributes to Parryi, but I do 

 not attach great importance to this, since Baly's statements of 

 proportion are seldom correct, and were evidently not founded on 

 measurement. Baly points out differences between Parryi and 

 variolosa without referring to the much less convexity of the 

 former, which could not possibly have escaped the notice of so 

 careful a describer if his Parryi had been my augusta. 



Victorian Alps ; also N.S.W. (Mount Kosciusko), sent by Mr. 

 Lea. 



P. Manto, sp nov. 



9. Ovata(apicem versus modicedilatata); modice nitida; minus 

 fortiter convexa; rufo-testacea, antennis (articulis basalibus 

 4 ex parte rufis exceptis) palporum apice capite in medio 

 mandibulorum apice scutello corpore subtus femoribus tibia- 

 rum apice tarsisque nigris; capite insequaliter sat grosse 



