64S REVISION OF THE GENUS PAROPSIS, 



puuctulatis, verrucis numerosis sat magnis plus minusve 

 rufescentibus confuse instructis, interstitiis antice minus 

 (feminre quam maris magis distincte) postice magis rugulosis, 

 parte marginali angustissima modice distincta, calli hume- 

 ralis margine interno a sutura ciuaiii ab elytrorum margine 

 laterali multo magis distanti; segmento ventrali basali 

 (maris sat fortiter feminre subtilius) punctulato; prosterni 

 parte concava mediana lata. Long. 3-3f, lat. 24-241ines. 

 Femina quam mas paullo magis convexa. 



Easily llistinguishable (among the species with the median 

 space of the prosternum exceptionally wide) by the neai'ly black 

 colour of the general surface, the elytral verrucas being slightly 

 reddish l)ut not conspicuously different in colour from the derm. 

 The elytral margin viewed from the side is very sinuous (as in 

 strigosa and a few other species). I have thought it well to re- 

 describe this species as the acquisition of more specimens shows 

 some variation from the type, especially in colour. 



N. W. Australia ; sent to me by Mr. Masters. [Also pre- 

 viously taken by the Elder Exploring Expedition.] 



P. ARMATA, sp.nov. 



9. Sat late subovata; minus convexa, altitudine majori (a 

 latere visa) baud ante elytrorum marginem medium posita; 

 minus nitida; supra rufo-aurantiaca, prothorace (lateribus 

 exceptis) scutello et elytrorum tuberculis maculisque 

 picescentibus; subtus picescens, antennarum basi tarsisque 

 rufis; capite sat fortiter ruguloso; prothorace quam longiori 

 ut 2J ad 1 latiori, ab apice vix ultra medium dilatato, pone 

 apicem transversim %ix impresso, grosse vermiculato- 

 ruguloso et sparsim punctulato, lateribus modice arcuatis 

 baud deplanatis, angulis posticis obtusis; scutello subhevi in 

 medio convexo; elytris sub callum humeralem depressis, pone 

 Ijasin transversim vix manifeste impressis, subseriatim sat 

 fortiter punctulatis et tuberculorum conicorum seriebus 9 

 armatis, parte marginali angusta a disco (per sulculum sub- 

 obsoletum continuum) divisa, calli humeralis margine in- 



