of New Phytophaga from Western Wiicien ten 403 
method of entomologizing has been this: he rides some score 
miles every day through the bush; he provides himself with 
a strong canvas bag, which generally in his gallops is drag- 
ging behind him—very much I imagine after the manner of a 
dredging-net at a yacht’s stern in a ten-knots’ breeze. At oppor- 
tune moments during the day this bag is examined ; its apex is 
found crammed with insect life; three or four of the largest and 
most striking specimens are selected; the rest are tossed away, 
and the gallop resumed. I have reason to know that for the 
future our friend, who is really as keen an Entomologist and as 
true a lover of nature as any one I know, will take better care of 
the residuum of the contents of his sweeping-net. He excused 
himself to me for his natural-selection tendencies by stating that 
he believed that he was the only one in Australia or Europe who 
was sufficiently advanced to care for such things. Mr. Du Boulay, 
on his return to West Australia, will be envied by many of us 
as having it within his power to explore an almost unknown and 
most interesting Entomological Fauna. 
List of new Species hereinafter described. 
Curysometip®. Paro)sis, seventeen species; see tabular 
analysis below. 
Chalcolampra undulatipennis. 
laticollis. 
Australica a@neonitens. 
Chalcomela subpunctata. 
Eumotripa. Geloptera Duboulan. 
nodosa. 
Thaumxstomerus viridis. 
Edusa aureoviridis. 
setosa. 
hispidula. 
nigro-@ned. 
Ocnus viridis. 
Fam. CHRYSOMELIDE. 
Genus Paropsis, Oliv. 
The species of Paropsis described in this paper may be tabu- 
lated as follows :— 
[1.] Corpore ovato, depresso. 
(1) P. mediovittata. 
(2) P. apicata. 
