300 Mr. J.S. Baly on the Species of Paropsis. 
convex, sides irregularly excavated, variolose-punctate, disk subremotely 
irregularly punctured, the middle portion sometimes nearly free from 
punctures. Scutellum smooth, semiovate. Elytra one-third longer than 
broad, dilated posteriorly, very convex; shoulders nearly rectangular, 
indistinctly reflexed, their apex obtuse, sides obsoletely sinuate just 
below the anterior angles ; surface closely covered with deeply impressed 
fuscous punctures, their interstices smooth, elevated, verrucose towards 
the apex of the elytra; pale sanguineous, stained with obscure piceous 
markings (these, when present, usually consist of a submarginal stripe 
and three round patches placed longitudinally on the disk); lateral 
border moderately dilated. Beneath pale fulvous yellow. 
P. reticulata may be separated from P. variolosa and the other 
previously described species by its smaller size and more closely 
verrucose elytra; the punctures on the sides and hinder portion of 
the elytra, and occasionally even over the whole surface, are con- 
nected with each other by a network of grooved lines, forming 
numerous’ small reticulations, each one of these being filled by a 
raised wart-like tuberosity. From P. atomaria, the next species, it 
presents the following differences: its general form is much more 
regularly convex; when viewed laterally, its upper outline forms a 
regular curve, of which the highest point, however, is rather before 
than behind the middle of the body ; in P. atomaria the curve is much 
less regular, the anterior portion of the body, from the head to beyond 
the middle of the elytra, being more or less distinctly flattened, and 
rising gradually from before backwards, the highest point being thus 
placed behind the centre of the body ; from this part to the apex the 
outline forms a regular curve: in P. reticulata the thorax is broader, 
its sides being entire, broadly rounded, sinuate in front, the upper 
surface being also more finely and closely punctured ; in P. atomaria 
the sides are much more obtuse, less dilated, and slightly bisinuate, 
the upper surface bemg more distantly but more deeply punctured: 
in P. reticulata the puncturing on the elytra is rather closer, and 
irregularly placed over the whole surface; in P. atomaria, on the 
other hand, the punctures near the suture are arranged in irregular 
rows, leaving longitudinal smooth and impunctate interspaces, which 
usually are raised and form distinct costa, but are occasionally plane 
and not elevated above the general surface of the disk. 
Common in collections. 
Paropsis atomaria, Marsh. 
Notoclea atomaria, Linn. Trans. ix. p. 286, tab. 24. fig. 3. 
Paropsis dilatata, Erichs. ? Wieg. Archiv, 1842, p. 226, 
P. oyalis, postice paullo ampliata, convexa, antice (a capite ad ultra 
