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prothorax and elytra narrowly edged with testaceous. The elytra 

 of some examples are uneven through some of the interstices 

 being irregularly costate, but I take them to be merely abnormally 

 developed specimens. The males are more depressed than the 

 females. Long. -1-4|, lat. 3^-34 lines. 

 Victoria and Tasmania. 



P. LiESA, Germ, (con/erta, Clip.). 



This species is named chlorotica, Oliv., in theChapuis collection, 

 but chlorotica (which I have already dealt with) was evidently 

 described from a much smaller species. Dr. Chapuis places Icesa 

 among the species he had been unable to identify. Germar's 

 description of hesa fits the present insect very well, and moreover 

 I have before me examples taken in the exact locality whence 

 Germar's specimens came. 



It is a species of wide subcircular form and moderate convexity 

 (a trifle less convex than P. variicollis), and entirely of testaceous 

 or pale ferruginous colour except that in some examples the 

 antenna are somewhat infuscate towards the apex, and that the 

 prothorax is generally faintly blotched with fuscous, while the 

 head and prothorax are not infrequently blotched with whitish 

 colouring and (rarely) the elytra bear a few small fuscous spots; 

 there is also a tendency towards whitish colouring along the base 

 of the elytra. The surface is only moderately nitid. The head 

 is flat, with fine close puncturation tending to become longitudi- 

 nally confluent. The prothorax is a little less than three times as 

 wide as long, moderately narrowed in front, with the front margin 

 only feebly bisinuate, its disc rather coarsely rugulosely and 

 closely but irregularly punctured (its lateral portion evidently 

 more coarsely and closely, with a large feeble depression), its sides 

 gently arched, the front angles prominent but scarcely sharp, the 

 hind angles quite rounded off. The scutellum is nitid and not or 

 scarcely punctured. The elytra are non-striate (scarcely striate in 

 the 2) and bear 10 extremely unsymmetrical rows (the 5th, 6th 

 antl 7th more symmetrical than the rest) of moderately fine round 

 punctures, the interstices of the strise flat and finely somewhat 



