666 REVISION OF THE GENUS PAROPSIS, 



P. SIMULANS, Sp.nov. 



Q. Subovata; sat lata; minus convexa, altitudine majori (a 

 latei'e visa) contra elytrorum marginem medium posita; 

 niodice nitida; castanea, antennis apicem versus et sternis 

 picescentibus; capite subtilius sat crebre vix aspere punctu- 

 lato; prothorace quam longiori ut 2| ad 1 latiori, ab apice 

 sat longe ultra medium dilatato, pone apicem transversim 

 impresso, sat crebre subtilius haud rugulose (sed ad latera 

 grosse rugulose) punctulato, lateribus sat arcuatis sat an- 

 guste deplanatis, angulis posticis fere nullis; scutello Ijevi; 

 elytris sub callum humeralem depressis, pone basin trans- 

 versim leviter impressis, subtiliter (puncturis etiam magis 

 subtilibus intermixtis, ad latera paullo mirms postice paullo 

 magis subtiliter) subseriatim punctulatis, verrucis sat nu- 

 merosis (his minus elevatis) sparsim seriatim (basin versus 

 obsoletis) instructis, interstitiis haud (apicem versus vix 

 manifesto) rugulosis, parte marginali angusta a disco (per 

 sulculum continuum) manifesto divisa, calli humeralis mar- 

 gine interno a sutura quam ab elytrorum margine laterali 

 paullo magis distanti; segmento ventrali basali crebrius 

 subfortiter punctulato. Long. 3|, lat. 24 lines. 

 This species bears a remarkable superficial resemblance to P. 

 castanea, Marsh., which however belongs to the last subgroup on 

 account of its diiferent form. Besides the difference of form 

 from castanea it is distinguished inte7- alia by the much closer and 

 more even puncturation, and much less widely explanate sides of 

 its prothorax and by the well-marked depression below its 

 humeral calli. 



N. S. Wales ; near Sydney. 



P. ABJECTA, sp.nov. 



9- Subovata; sat lata; niodice con\'exa, altitudine majori (a 

 latere visa) contra elytrorum marginem medium posita; 

 modice nitida; obscure rufa, corpore subtus elyti'isque 

 piceo-adumbratis, antennis (exempli typici) carentibus; 



