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I have in my collection a 9 example (also from N. Queensland) 

 of a Par ops is which I take to be a variety of this species. It is 

 smaller (long. 7 lines) and has the elytral punctures blackish, 

 otherwise not differing much. I have seen so few Paropses from 

 tropical Australia that I hesitate as to whether one or two other 

 slight differences may not point to specific distinction. 



This species differs from Baly's description of P. Parryi in not 

 being " valde convexa" nor black on the under surface. 



N. Queensland (Cowley). 



P. LowNEi, Baly (?). 



I have not seen an authentic type of this insect, nor any 

 specimen that thoroughly agrees with the description. Neverthe- 

 less, in view of Mr. Baly's reporting it as occurring near Sydney, 

 and being in at least two European collections, it seems hardly 

 likely that I have not seen it among all the numerous large 

 collections of Paropses that I have examined. Mr. Masters has 

 sent me a specimen labelled " Zo w; we i,'' but accompanied by a 

 note of uncertainty as to the authority for the name. This 

 specimen differs from the description in the absence of black 

 markings on the pronotum, in the scutellum being (not black but) 

 dark fuscous, and in the prothorax (not " much " but) a little 

 narrower than that of variolosa, Marsh. In spite of these 

 discrepancies, however, I incline to the opinion that the specimen 

 is rightly named, and consequently I have placed it in my 

 tabulation, though indicating the doubt as to my identification 

 by the appended " ? " 



P. INCARNATA, Er. 



This name has usually been regarded as a synonym of P. 

 reticulata, Marsh. I have a long series of specimens from 

 Tasmania before me, and also a long series of P. reticulata from 

 the Continent (including an example carefully compared with 

 Marsham's type), and am quite satisfied that the names are 

 founded on distinct species. Placed beside P. reticulata, incar- 

 nata is seen, viewed from the side, to be a distinctly more convex 

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