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I have some specimens taken in the neighbourhood of Charters 

 Towers (N. Queensland) which I hesitate to separate specificall}^ 

 from P. Thyone, although the elytral punctures are distinctly 

 finer than in the type, but I can find no other difference. In 

 some (but not all) of them the indefinite reddish markings on the 

 pronotum are dark brown rather than red, and are better defined 

 than in the type, appearing as a median V with two sinuous 

 longitudinal lines on each side of it. In one of them the punc- 

 tures on the elytra are (not black but) coloured as the derm. 



N.W. Australia. 



P. ^GROTA, Boisd. 



Baly gives this name, with doubt, as a synonym of the insect 

 which he calls lutea, Marsh., and under that name describes very 

 fully and well. But it is not lutea, Marsh., (as I shall show below). 

 That it is cegrota, Boisd., is scarcely doubtful, as its characters are 

 so well marked that even Boisduval's few words of description 

 could hardl}'- apply to any other Paropsis. It is widely distributed 

 and common in N.S. Wales, Victoria, and Tasmania. 



P. LUTEA, Marsh. 



Through the courtesy of Mr. Masters T have been able to 

 examine the type specimen of this insect. It is beyond doubt 

 the species which Baly described under the nanie consimilis. I 

 conjecture that it is also identical with Tnorbillosa, Boisd. It 

 seems to be widely distributed, as I have specimens from N.S. 

 Wales and S. Australia. 



P. RUBiDiPES, sp.nov. 



9. Ovata; minus lata; minus nitida; sat convexa (e latere visa 

 ut P. reticulata, Marsh., conformata); rufotestacea vel ferru- 

 ginea, corpore subtus pedibusque rubris, antennis apicem 

 versus infuscatis; capite inpequaliter vix crebre punctulato; 

 antennis quam corporis dimidium sublongioribus; prothorace 

 quam longiori ut 7 ad 3 latiori, rugulose subgrosse subacer- 

 vatim (fere ut P. cegrotoi, Boisd.) punctulato, utrinque latera 

 versus impresso, lateribus profunde 2-emarginatis, angulis 



