Mr. J.S. Baly on the Species of Paropsis. 301 
medium) declivis; pallide flava aut fulva, subnitida, antennis (basi 
excepta) fuscis; thorace lateribus obtuse rotundatis, leviter bisinuatis, 
angulo antico submucronato ; disco fusco maculato, profunde punctate, 
punctis spe piceis, hic illic irregulariter congregatis, ad latera excavato, 
varioloso-punctato: elytris thorace multo latioribus, pallide croceis, ob- 
solete nigro maculatis, profunde piceo punctatis, punctis inordinatim 
dispositis, antice prope suturam subseriatis; interstitiis ad latera et 
apicem versus elevatis, plus minusve verrucosis, lis prope suturam 
seepe costas longitudinales leves formantibus. 
Var. A. Pallide flava, thoracis elytrorumque maculis obsoletis. 
Mas. Tarsorum anticorum quatuor articulus basalis modice dilatatus, elon- 
gato-ovatus: edeagus minus abrupte curyatus, lateribus parallelis, apice 
subangulatus, apice ipso dente brevi subacuto, vix recurvato, armato.— 
Long. 43-6} lin. 
Hab. Tasmania, Melbourne, Adelaide ? 
Head irregularly punctured; epistome separated from the face by an 
angular groove; face more or less stained with fuscous patches; an- 
tennz slender, filiform, more than half the length of the body. Thorax 
twice as broad as long, sides obtusely rounded, slightly sinuate in the 
middle and again immediately behind the anterior angle, the latter 
submucronate: upper surface deeply punctured ; the punctures on the 
disk, usually few in number, are congregated here and there in irregular 
groups on the surface, leaving large spaces free from punctures ; in some 
specimens, however, the puncturing is much more crowded, and nearly 
_ covers the whole disk; sides broadly excavated, variolose-punctate. 
Elytra much broader than the thorax, somewhat dilated posteriorly, 
rather longer than broad, their apex regularly rounded; shoulders 
obtusely angled or nearly rectangular, their apex obtuse ; sides scarcely 
sinuate behind the anterior angles, obtusely angled about their middle ; 
above convex, somewhat flattened and obliquely deflexed in front from 
the head to just beyond the middle of the elytra, thence regularly 
rounded to the apex ; surface deeply and somewhat closely covered with 
large piceous punctures, interspaces thickened, verrucose ; on the inner 
disk, in front, the punctures are arranged in irregular rows, between 
which in most specimens are four or five longitudinal, slightly raised, 
~ smooth costz, which sometimes are entirely obsolete; lateral margin 
broadly dilated, slightly reflexed ; on the surface of the disk are usually 
some indistinct, ill-defined, fuscous patches, which form maculariform 
transverse bands. 
This species is also in the cabinets of Messrs. Waterhouse and 
Bakewell. 
Paropsis maculata, Marsh. 
Notoclea maculata, Marsh. Linn. Trans. ix. p. 287, tab. 1. fig. 5. 
P. rotundato-ovata, valde convexa, fulva, nitida, antennis (basi preeter- 
missa) nigris; thorace lateribus profunde bis emarginatis, disco tenuiter 
‘minus crebre punctato, ad latera excavato, et ibi foveolato et varioloso : 
