of New Phytophaga from Western Australia. 407 
shoulders more prominent than in P. amena. The outline also, 
from above, is somewhat different; in P. amcna it is broadly 
subcircular, in P. captiosa it is somewhat dilated behind the 
middle. 
Champion Bay. 
5. Paropsis maculicollis. 
Rotundato-ovalis, punctato-striata, flava vel flavo-testacea: 
caput fovea lineari ad apicem transvers& subsinuata, crebré 
punctatum, flavum, basi et maculis duabus juxta basin (ali- 
quando confluentibus et basi connexis), etiamque interdum 
lined apicali, nigris; thorax latitudine duplo longitudinem 
superans, angulis posticis rotundatis, anticis haud prominulis, 
margine apicali valde emarginato et sinuato; punctatus 
(punctis crebris minutis et inaequalibus, latera versus magnis 
et confertis), flavus, maculis quibusdam in forma literae W 
ordinatis (interdum conjunctis, interdum insulatis, et in nu- 
mero circa decem); sculellum subtriangulare, minutissime 
punctatum, nigro-fuscum ; e/ytra brevia, lata, striato-punc- 
tata, flava vel fusco-flava, punctis minutis raris nigris ordinatis 
sed intervallis inzequalibus dispositis, interstitia etiam evi- 
denter punctata; corpus sublus rufo-testaceum ; pedes testacel, 
genubus fuscis ; antenne flave, apicibus fusco-adumbratis. 
Long. corp. lin. 23; lat. lin. 2. 
A well-defined little species, notable by its thoracic maculations, 
and the minute black and sparingly-distributed punctures of its 
elytra. 
6. Paropsis purpureo-aurea. 
Rotundato-ovalis, satis depressa, punctato-striata; dum viva, 
purpureo-aurea, mortua et desiccata, flavo-testacea, fusco- 
maculata: caput linea anticé sinuato-transversa, punctatum, 
flavum ; thorax transversus, latitudine haud elytra sed longi- 
tudinem ipsius plus duplo superans, lateribus rotundatis, 
angulis posticis rotundatis, anticis haud prominulis, crebre 
punctatus, punctis in disco minutis inaequalibus, ad latera 
confertis et majoribus; quoad colorem flavus, disco medio 
confuse fusco-ornato ; scutellum subcordiforme, impuncta- 
tum; elytra satis lata, marginibus ampliatis, striato-punctata, 
punctis minutis confertis et equaliter ordinatis, interstitia 
etiam punctis crebris ornata ; quoad colorem obscuré notata, 
flavo-testacea, utrinque circulo magno scutellari, alteroque 
VOL. II. THIRD SERIES, PART V.—SEPT. 1865. GG 
