546 NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 



Paropsis latipes, sp.nov. 



Subrotunda (femina paullo minus lata) ; valde convexa ; supra 

 minus nitida, flavo-brunnea, capite postice (nonnullis 

 exemplis) prothoracis macula parva utrinque sublaterali 

 elytrorum sutura plus minus ve manifeste vittis 2 utrinque 

 submarginalibus (plurimis exemplis fere obsoletis) et tuber- 

 cnlis nonnullis (plurimis exemplis his vix infuscatis) nigris ; 

 capite prothoraceque crebre minus fortiter subrugulose 

 punctulatis ; hoc (latera versus multo magis crasse punctulato) 

 quam longiori multo magis quart) duplo latiori, margine antico 

 profunde emarginato in medio leviter convexo, lateribus 

 fortiter rotunclatis (latitudine majori fere in medio posita), 

 angulis anticis sat productis minus acutis, posticis nullis ; 

 scutello piceo subcarinato obscure punctulato ; elytris 

 creberrime sat fortiter subseriatim punctulatis, tuberculis 

 nonnullis (his nonnullis exemplis piceis vel nigris) seriatim 

 ornatis, angulo humerali sat rotundato ; corpore subtus nigro 

 nitido (prosterni lateribus anguste testaceis), sat crebre sat 

 fortiter (metasterno medio sublrevi excepto) punctulato ; 

 prosterno in medio bicarinato minus lato, carinis antice 

 conniventibus ; pal pis peclibusque rufo- testaceis (femoribus 

 plus minus obscurioribus) ; antennis piceis basi testaceis. 

 (J tarsorum anteriorum 4 articulo basali valde dilatato quam 

 3 US nullo modo angustiori ; segmento ventrali apicali leviter 

 bigibbo, apice truncato cariniformi. 

 9 segmento ventrali apicali pone basim transversim carinato, 

 apice anguste emarginato. [Long. 5 (vix), lat. 4 lines. 



The prothorax across its front angles is just about § as wide as 

 at its widest part. Viewed from the side the curve of the outline 

 is an even one, its highest point being at about the middle of its 

 length, and the height of the insect is about g of its length. 



Ordinary specimens are almost entirely of a pale brownish colour 

 above, with a small blackish spot near the margin of the prothorax 

 on either side, and the elytra obscurely infuscate along the suture 

 and bearing two indistinct blackish vittas near the margin on 



