408 Rey. H. Clark’s Descriptions 
apicali subelongato maximo, macula etiam laterali ante- 
media elongaté; corpus subtus flavum; pedes et antenne 
pallide flavi. 
Long. corp. lin. 33; lat. lin. 22. Z 
Mr. Du Boulay says that the example from which this deserip- 
tion is taken was, when alive, inconceivably brilliant and lovely ; 
it was one single gem of bright metallic purple and burnished 
gold, and so attractive that he carried it for some days in his 
handkerchief in the bush; at last it died, he looked for it but 
could not find it, and only saw, to his utter bewilderment, in its 
place an obscure-looking flavous insect, as it presents itself to 
me. According to his description (which accords exactly with 
the present markings), the elytra are golden, with a broad well- 
formed ring of brilliant purple (extending over half the breadth 
of the elytra) on either side near the scutellum, and another 
oblong ring which occupies the whole apical part of the elytra ; 
between the two rings, near the side, is a third longitudinal 
purple marking; the margins of the elytra are broadly and 
palely golden; the thorax is golden, with a magnificent centre-piece 
of purple. 
I have had much pleasure in receiving a kind offer from Mr. 
Du Boulay, that on his return to his Australian home he will 
prepare coloured drawings of species of this genus when in a living 
state, and forward them to me, together with the specimens from 
which the drawings were made. In this way, and it appears to me 
in this way only, can we make our descriptions of this genus of 
value to Australian Entomologists, 
Champion Bay. 
7. Paropsis tessellata. 
Ovata, satis rotundata, vix depressa, punctato-striata; exempli 
mortui et desiccati corpus subtus, pedes, et antenne rufo- 
flavi, elytra pallide testacea, fusco-maculata: caput antice 
linea obsoleta juxta epistoma curvata, leviter punctatum, 
rufo-flavum ; thorax longitudine latitudinem vix triplo su- 
perans, lateribus rotundatis et satis ampliatis, margine 
antico lato valdé emarginato, angulis anticis subprominulis, 
sparsim punctulatus, rufo-flavus, maculis utrinque in medium 
(vel macula transversé adumbrata indeterminata) fuscis; scu- 
tellum triangulare, lave (rarissime punctatum), flavo-fuscum ; 
elytra brevia, longitudine amplitudinem superantia, punctato- 
striata, punctis aqualibus sed ineequaliter distributis, pallidé 
fusca, maculis 20—80 quadratis in singulo elytro pallidé 
