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form, about half the length of the body. Thorax more than three times 
as broad as long; apex broadly and deeply emarginate, middle of ex- 
cavated portion slightly produced, sides rounded at the base, thence con- 
verging obliquely to the front, anterior angles with their apex obtuse ; 
above transversely convex, sides irregularly excavated, coarsely punc- 
tate, disk finely and rather closely punctured. Scutellum semiovate. 
Elytra subovate, very convex; shoulders subrectangular, their apex 
obtuse ; above deeply and irregularly, but not very closely, punctured, 
the fulvous patches, which become obsoletely raised towards the apex of 
the elytron, are, together with the submarginal stripe, finely punctate. 
Beneath shining black; head, thorax, margin of abdominal segments, 
and also the legs dark fulvous, four posterior thighs marked on their 
anterior surface, near its apex, with a black patch. 
More regularly ovate than any of the preceding, from which, 
however, as well as from all the other species of the section, its 
peculiar pattern and colouring will separate it. 
Paropsis reticulata, Marsham. 
Notoclea reticulata, Marsh. Linn. Trans. ix. p. 285, tab. 24. fig. 2. 
Paropsis incarnata, Krichs. Wieg. Archiv, 1842, p. 226. 
sanguinipennis, Germ. Linn. Entom. ii. p. 233 (1848). 
P. subquadrato-ovata, valde convexa, flavo-fulva, nitida, antennis ex- 
trorsum fuscis; thorace fusco variegato, lateribus rotundato-dilatatis, 
antice sinuatis, disco subremote punctato, punctis irregulariter congre- 
gatis, ad latera excavato, minus crebre varioloso-punctato: elytris 
crebre et profunde fusco punctatis, interspatiis elevatis, postice verru- 
cosis ; sanguineis, piceo aut fusco maculatis. 
Var. A. Elytris sanguineis, maculis piceis obsoletis. 
Var. B. Elytris sanguineis, verrucosis, margineque flavis. 
Var. C. Corpore pallide flavo, elytris fusco maculatis. 
Notoclea quadrimaculata, Marsh. ? Ll. c. p. 287, tab. 24. fig. 6. 
Var. D. Corpore toto flavo. 
Mas. Tarsorum anticorum quatuor articulus basalis modice dilatatus, 
ovatus, apice truncato: @deagus robustus, abrupte curvatus, lateribus 
parallelis, apice rotundato-angulatus, apice dente acuto non recuryato 
armato, subtus membranaceus.—Long. 5-6 lin. 
Hab. South Australia, Sydney. 
Subquadrate-ovate, regularly convex, shining fulvous yellow; elytra 
pale sanguineous, stained here and there with piceous markings. Head 
punctured ; clypeus separated from the face by a narrow groove, which 
curves downwards at either end, its middle being angular and sending 
a longitudinal groove upwards to the vertex; eyes and extreme apex 
of jaws black; antennze moderately robust, filiform. Thorax more 
than three times as broad as long; sides rounded, converging and 
sinuate in front, anterior angles submucronate; above transversely 
