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nigricanti ; prothorace quam longiori ut 2| ad 1 latiori, 

 ab apice sat longe ultra medium dilatato, crebre sat for- 

 titer (ad latera grosse rugulose) punctulato, lateribus for- 

 titer arcuatis, late leviter deplanatis, angulis posticis nul- 

 lis; scutello subleevi ; elytris sub calluiri humeralem de- 

 pressis, pono basin transversim leviter impressis, crebre 

 fortiter sat seriatim (ad latera paullo magis, postice paullo 

 minus, grosse) punctulatis, verrucis (his a basi ad apicem 

 continuis) nonnullis elongatis nonnullis rotundatis in- 

 structis, interstitiis sat rugulosis, part-e marginal! a disco 

 (per sulculum minus perspicua) indeterminate divisa, calli 

 humeralis margine interno a sutura quam ab elytrorum 

 margine sat multo magis distanti : segmento ventrali 

 basali (hoc rufo) sparsim subtiliter punctulato ; anten- 

 narum articulo 3° quam 4"^ paullo longiori. Long., 5 J 

 1. ; lat., 3h 1. 



In Proc. Linn. Soc, N.S.W., 1901 (p. 160), I furnished 

 a classification of the groups into which it appeared to me 

 that the genus Paropsis could conveniently be divided. The 

 present species appertains to Group iii. as there characterized. 

 In loc. cit. 1896 (p. 643) I divided that group into sub-groups 

 of which sub-group ii. must receive this species. In loc. cit. 

 (pp. 653-657) I tabulated the then known species of this sub- 

 group and in that tabulation the pres-ent species must be 

 placed beside P. comma, Blackb., from which it may be thus 

 distinguished : — 



KK. Form much less 

 wide ; elytra less 

 rounded at sides. 

 L. Greatest height of 

 the insect (view- 

 ed from the side) 

 not behind mid- 

 dle of elytral 

 margin ... ... comma, Blackh. 



LL. Greatest height 

 of the insect 

 (viewed from 



side) consider- 

 ably behind mid- 

 dle of elytral 

 margin ... ... aoclivis, Blac'kb. 



I have no doubt that this distinction is shared by the 

 female (which I have not seen). The greatest height of the 

 insect is placed further from the base than in any other 

 nearly allied species. It also differs from P. mmma in nume- 

 rous other respects, e.g., larger size, narrower build, humeral 

 callus much nearer lateral margin of elytra, absence of mark- 

 ings on the pronotum, sides of pronotum less distinctly 

 (though not less widely) explanate, evidently closer punctura- 



