688 REVISION OF THE GENUS PAROPSIS, 



P. ALTA, Sp.nOV. 



Q. Ovata, latissima; valde convexa, altitudine majori (a latere 

 visa) pone elytrorum marginem medium posita ; modics 

 nitida; castaneo-brunnea, antennis apicem versus pedibus in 

 parte et corpore subtus piceis ; capite sat crebre ruguloso- 

 punctulato; protliorace quam longiori ut 2| ad 1 latiori, al) 

 apice sat longe ultra medium dilatato, pone apicem trans- 

 versim leviter impresso, crebre subfortiter aspere sat a^qualiter 

 (parte lateral! sat grosse rugulosa excepta) punctulato, 

 lateribus sat fortiter arcuatis nuUo modo deplanatis, angulis 

 posticis nullis; scutello ut prothorax punctulato; elytris sub 

 callum humeralem baud depressis, pone basin transversim 

 baud impressis, confertim dupliciter (subtilius et magis sui)- 

 tiliter) sat aspere vix subseriatim (latera versus paullo magis, 

 postice vix minus, fortiter) punctulatis, verrucis parvis 

 nonnullis parum perspicuis instructis, interstitiis minus rugu- 

 losis, parte marginal! a disco vix distincta, calli huraeralis 

 margine interno a sutura quam ab elytrorum margine lateral! 

 paullo magis distant!; segmento ventral! basal! subfortiter 

 vix crebre punctulato; antennarum articulo 3'^ quam 4"^ 

 distincte longiori. Long. 3^, lat. 3 lines. 

 A somewhat isolated species on account of its resemljling l)y 

 its great convexity the species of the next subgroup, but differ- 

 ing from them by the greatest height of the elytra being very far 

 back. On careful examination it is seen that the 3rd joint of the 

 antenna3 is distinctly longer than the 4th, but the difference in 

 length is not marked enough to associate the species with 

 P. regularis and its allies, and its natural place is certainly near 

 P. inornata, Blackb. 



S. Australia; Adelaide; also Murray Bridge. 



P. INORNATA, sp.nov. 



^. P. altce afiinis ; minus lata, multo minus convexa; picea, 

 antennis basin versus rufis; prothorace ab apice paullo minus 

 longe ultra medium dilatato; scutello Itevi; elytris pone basin 



