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vex with a long slight sinuation behind tlie middle. The under- 

 surface is nitid and strongly and sparingly punctured except on 

 the metasternum, the greater part of which is hardly punctulate, 

 but is transversely strigose. The prosteriium is narrowly carinate, 

 the carina being flattened above and sulcate down the middle ; 

 between the anterior coxie it is scarcely so wide as the width of 

 the second joint of the maxillary palpi. The convexity of the 

 body is so great that if it be looked at from the side the length 

 of the elytra is only about one -seventh greater than the height of 

 the insect {i.e., the distance from the under to the upper surface). 

 The antennas are three-fifths as long as the whole body. Belongs 

 to Dr. Chapuis' Second Group of Paropsis. 



This species is perhaps a form of P. hemispJtcn'ica, Chap., stated 

 to be from " Australia " witliout more precise mention of locality. 

 As I have before me several specimens all differing from tlie de- 

 scription in the middle part of the metasternum being more or less 

 testaceous and the antennae (except at the base) being quite 

 black, it does not seem out of place to give it a distinctive name 

 as being at least a well-marked variety. 



W. Australia ; taken by E. Meyrick, Esq. 



P. inimula, sp. no v. Hemisph^erica ; valde convexa ; nitida ; 

 rufo-testacea, palporum articulo ultimo et antennis (articulis 

 basalibus nonnullis exceptis) nigris ; capite crebre sat f ortiter 

 punctulato haud longitudinaliter impresso ; prothorace quam 

 longiori duplo latiori, subtiliter sat sparsim punctulato, ad 

 latera crasse punctulato nee impresso ; scutello haud punc- 

 tulato ; elytris sat fortiter sat crebre (quam jDrotlioracis 

 disco multo fortius) punctulatis, interstitiis minute nee con- 

 fertim punctulatis, lineis longitudinalibus subl^vibus vix 

 manifeste notatis. Long., 3f 1. ; lat., 3 1. 



Apart from the differences of puncturation, ttc, mentioned 

 above, this species is very like P. Meyricki, but is even more 

 spherical than that species. The shape of the prothorax is almost 

 identical in the two, but in the present species that segment is 

 (by measurement) decidedly less strongly transverse than in the 

 other. The undersurface has no distinct j^uncturation. The 

 external outline of the elytra and the structure of the presternum 

 are as in P. Meyricki. The antennw are distinctly shorter than 

 in that species. This insect, as also the preceding one, differs 

 from its near allies in the combination of antennse quite black 

 (except near their base) with the almost complete absence on the 

 elytra of longitudinal l?evigate spaces. 



South Australia, Yorke's Peninsula. 



P. coiifusa, sp. nov. Ovata ; sat convexa ; nitida ; testacea, 

 elytris (his fusco-punctulatis), et nonnullis exemplis pro- 



