658 REVISION OP THE GENUS PAROPSIS, 



convexity, more widely (though not more strongly) explanate 

 sides of jDrothorax, different prothoracic markings, and especially 

 by the extra-discal part of the elytra much wider and evidently 

 sloping outward (in serjnginosa it is nearly vertical) with the 

 humeral callus considerably more distant from the lateral margin 

 of the elytra, as well as by the considerably longer third antennal 

 joint (in serpiginosa this joint is scarcely longer than the fourth). 

 If an example be looked at with the head directed towards the 

 observer the mark on the observer's right resembles a comma 

 (that on the left being of course reversed). The tails of the two 

 marks are confluent in some examples. In serpu/inosa the pro- 

 thorax is usually without mai^kings, but in some e.xamples there 

 are four more or less conspicuous ])lackish spots placed in a 

 transverse row. This species is also very near P. regular-is, 

 Blackb., differing by its smaller size, evidently narrower form, 

 less closely punctulate prothorax with diffei-ent markings, &c. 

 Tasmania; sent by Mr. Simson from Launceston. 



P. SVLVICOLA, .sp.nov. 



5. Late ovalis; minus convexa, altitudine majori (a latere 

 visa) contra vel paullo pone elyti'orum medium posita; minus 

 nitida; picea,i capite prothorace (hoc plus minusve piceo- 

 adumbrato) elytrorum maculis nonnullis (his prsesertim ad 

 latera positis) antennisque (his apicem versus infuscatis) 

 rufo-aurantiacis; capite crebre subtilius subrugulose punctu- 

 lato; prothorace quam longiori ut 21^ ad 1 latiori, ab apice 

 paullo ultra medium dilatato, pone apicem transversim 

 distincte impresso, creljre rugulose subfortiter (ad latera 

 A'alde rugulose) punctulato, lateribus modice arcuatis haud 

 deplanatis angulis posticis obtusis; scutello plus minusve 

 punctulato; elytris sub callum humeralem distincte de- 

 pressis, pone basin transversim vix impressis, crebre fortiter 

 subseriatim (postice magis subtiliter, ad latera magis rugu- 

 lose) punctulatis, verrucis Ifevibus sat numerosis sat seriatim 

 (hie illic in costis minus distinctis positis) antice quam 

 postice minus perspicue instructis, interstitiis subrugulosis 



