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differ in any way that I can specify ; polyglypta being very vari 

 able in markings it is probable that the other is also variable. 

 The male of the Victorian insect, which I regard as P. intacta (I 

 have not seen a female) is distinctly shorter (in proportion to its 

 length) than the male of P. j^olyglyiJta, with more rounded sides. 

 In polyglypta the prothorax is quite distinctly more transverse, 

 being (by measurement) very nearly twice and a half as wide as 

 long ; its base is not quite half again as wide as its front margin, 

 its sides are very evidently rounded, and its greatest width is 

 well in front of the base. In intacta the same segment is scarcely 

 twice and a-third as wide as long, its base is slightly more than 

 half again as wide as its front margin, its sides are only very 

 slightly rounded, and its greatest width is almost at the actual 

 base. 



P. Froggatti, sp. nov. $ Ovata ; sat nitida ; supra testaceo- 

 livida ; capitis macula media magna, prothoracis macula 

 media magna et utrinque maculis 2 minoribus longitudinali- 

 ter positis, scutello pro parte, et elytrorum singulorum 

 macula humerali sutura striisque 1 0, nigricantibus ; subtus 

 atra, nitida, pro- et meso-sternis ad latera rufescentibus ; 

 pedibus palpis et antennis testaceis (harum parte dimidia 

 apicali nigricanti) ; capite prothoraceque crebre duplo-punc- 

 tulatis, hoc latera versus late impresso vix crassius punc- 

 tulato ; scutello Isevi ; elytris profunde striatis, striis 

 irregulariter fortiter biseriatim punctulatis, interstitiis 

 fortiter convexis nullo modo (nisi juxta basin) punctulatis. 

 Long., 7 1. ; lat. 5 1. 



Very much like P. -polyglyidta and intacta in respect of the 

 colouring and pattern of the upper surface, but at once dis- 

 tinguishable from both those species by the perfectly black under- 

 side (paler only on the sides of the head, prosternum and meso- 

 sternum), and by the entirely different sculpture of the elytra, on 

 which the striae are deeper, and especially wider, each bearing 

 very evidently ttm rows of coarse punctures, somewhat mixed 

 together, and the interstices are quite strongly convex, and in 

 their hinder two-thirds entirely devoid of puncturation. The 

 female differs from that of P. jyolyglyiota in its elytra being 

 decidedly more (and more abruptly) widened behind the middle. 



New South Wales, taken in the Australian Alps ; and sent to 

 me by Mr. Froggatt, of Sydney, to whom I have much pleasure 

 in dedicating the species. 



PAROPSIS NIGERRIMA, Germ. 



This species is, I think, only a variety of P. alter nata, Germ., 

 with the testaceous markings absent. I can find no other dis- 

 tinction. 



