192 REVISION OP THE C4ENUS PAROPSIS, 



margins by a very conspicuous row of very closely placed punc- 

 tures, and are raised above the general surface. The extremely 

 intricate disposition of colours is difficult to describe clearly. 

 The head and pronotum are yellow, with the sutures and margins 

 narrowly red. On the head is a large piceous blotch (shaped 

 like the letter m) standing on the clypeal suture, and there is 

 another very similar blotch (but much larger) standing on the 

 base of the pronotum, while a large piceous blotch shading off 

 into reddish lies on either side somewhat within the lateral 

 margin. The scutellum is yellow. The faintly raised yellow 

 blotches are as follows on each elytron (exclusive of some blotches 

 which are neither raised nor margined) : — 4 along the base 

 running hindward (the middle 2 much shorter than the others); 

 a large V with its angle close to the sutural apex, one of its 

 extremities near the lateral margin about its middle, and the 

 other extremity near the suture considerably behind its middle; 

 2 much smaller spots within the V; and 3 placed (of which one 

 is very elongate-oval and placed longitudinally near the suture, 

 one much shorter but oval and placed somewhat farther from the 

 suture and nearer the front of the elytra, and one nearly round 

 placed still farther fi'om the suture and opposite the middle of 

 the first named of these 3 blotches) in the space between the 

 basal blotches and the V. Of the yellow markings on the elytra 

 those which are not raised or outlined by a row of punctures are 

 2 spots close to the base, one near the middle of the lateral 

 margin and the whole of the lateral margin itself. The suture 

 also is faintly yellow. On the under surface and legs red and 

 yellow shade off into each other very intricately. The antennee 

 are yellowish at the base, becoming piceous towards the apex. 

 The colour of the punctured portions of' the elytra is red-brown. 

 N.S. Wales (Rope's Creek). In Mr. Masters' collection. 



P. PoLYXO, sp.nov. 



(J. Ovata; modice convexa; nitida; testacea, elytris nonnihil 

 rufescentibus plagis (his haud elevatis) albidis ornatis, 

 antennis apicem versus infuscatis ; capite prothoraceque 



