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transversim vix penitus pequali ; antennarum articulo 3° 

 quain 4"* baud longiori; cetera ut P. aha. Long. 4, lat. 3^ 

 lines. 



9. Quam mas subconvexiori. 



Except in respect of a few well-marked characters this species 

 is so close to P. alto, that it seems unnecessary to repeat the whole 

 of the description of the latter which (modified by the characters 

 noted above) applies exactly to this insect. The much less con- 

 vexity and the antennal difference at once separate P. inoy^nata, 

 as also the absence of puncturation on the scutellum, but this 

 latter character I do not so absolutely rely upon, as I find that 

 there is a slight tendency to variation in the puncturation of the 

 scutellum of many species of Faropsis. I do not think, however, 

 that any specimen of P. inornata would have anything like the 

 strong scutellar puncturation of P. alta, which is quite continuous 

 with the puncturation of the prothorax. Indeed, I have before 

 me some examples of Paropsis from Yorke's Peninsula and from 

 Eucla which I believe to be P. inornata, in which the scutellum 

 bears some fine punctures. It is possible that they rej)resent a 

 distinct very close species, but the point could not be certainly 

 decided without the examination of more examples from the same 

 locality as the type of P. inornata, from which locality I have 

 seen only one female, and that one is in bad condition. 



W. Australia; Eyre's Sand Patch. 



P. INiEQUALIS, sp.nOV. 



(J. Late oA'ata; minus convexa, altitudine majori (a latere visa) 

 contra elytrorum marginem medium posita; modice nitida; 

 nigra, antennarum ba.si et pedibus maculatim (tarsis totis) 

 rufis; capite prothoraceque jequaliter (sed hoc ad latera grosse 

 rugulose) crebre subfortiter fere rugulose punctulatis ; hoc 

 quam longiori ut 2f ad 1 latiori, ab apice ultra medium 

 dilatato, pone apicem transversim leviter impresso, lateribus 

 fortiter arcuatis nullo mododeplanatis, angulis posticis nullis- 

 scutello (exempli typici carente); elytris sub callum humer- 

 alem baud depressis, pone basin transversim baud impressis, 



