250 Rev. H. Clark on new Australian Phytophaga. 
Fam. Chrysomelide. 
Genus Paropsts, Oliv. 
P. purpureo-viridis, n. sp. 
P. oyalis, leviter punctato-striata, purpureo-viridis, nitida; capite for- 
titer punctato, nigro: thorace lateribus undique rotundatis, tenuiter 
marginatis, antice circulariter excavato; disco subtilissime punctato, 
latera versus sparsim sed fortiter punctato, eneo-nigro; scutello sub- 
triangulari, levi, nitido: elytris subtiliter punctato-striatis, interstitiis 
minutissime punctatulis; purpureo-viridibus, ad suturam (juxta scu- 
tellum) et ad marginem latius viridi-sneis: corpore subtus, pedibus 
antennisque nigris. 
Long. corp. 6 lin., lat. 4 lin, 
Species of this vast and very difficult genus Paropsis have been 
described by different authors, as Olivier, Erichson, Germar, Mar- 
sham, Stal, and Newman. The nomenclature is very confused ; and 
what is worse, the insects themselves change in colour and pattern 
entirely after death. Some day we may hope, by the patient perse- 
verance of students at home aided by figured representations of the 
living insects from Australia, to attain to a true knowledge of the 
several species: in the mean time it will probably be better to wait, 
rather than attempt to unravel the skein with some probability of 
failure. 
The species before us is therefore the only one, of some thirty or 
fifty from Damel’s collection, which I propose to describe here. It 
is singularly abnormal in colour, and to be confounded with no other 
examples that have ever been sent to England. It was taken in 
North Australia. 
Let me express an earnest wish that some of our valued corre- 
spondents, as Mr. MacLeay, Mr. Wilson, Rev. W. King, or Mr. 
Diggles, may be induced to turn their attention to this specially 
Australian group. I would ask them to be so good as fully to de- 
scribe the living insect ; and then if they would entrust the insects 
so described, with their descriptions, to some competent Coleopterist in 
Europe, who could attack the literature of the subject, we should 
have reason to expect that the problems might be solved. 
Genus Cuanconampra, Blanch. 
C. verrucosa, n. sp. (PI. XII. fig. 2 et a.) 
C. oblongo-ovalis, punctato-striata, verrucosa, nigra vel seneo-nigra, 
nitida; capite ineequaliter rugoso, punctato; thorace lato, lateribus 
rotundatis, disco inzequaliter granulato, fortiter punctato (ad discum 
medium sparsim, ad latera crebre), scutello parvo; elytris elongatis, ad 
