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elytra are rather distinct!}' striate and their strise are not of the 

 fine scratch-Hke character of those of P. inconstans, &c. The 

 colour is extremely variable. In living specimens the head and 

 prothorax usually bear some golden markings and the disc of the 

 elytra is tessellated with a great number of small square blotches 

 of silvery or somewhat golden metallic colouring (these were the 

 markings in life of a spe^^^imen sent to me from Dr. Chapuis' 

 collection), but in some examples (possibly not truly conspecific) 

 the tessellation is almost wanting or is disposed to a greenish tone, 

 or is more or less suffused over the whole disc, but I think there 

 is always some indication of metallic tessellation at any rate near 

 the external margin of the disc. In dried specimens the colour 

 of the upper surface varies from pale to red-testaceous, in some 

 examples overspread with livid brown which occasionall}' is not 

 uniform but is concentrated into two faintly defined blotches — 

 one before, the other behind, the middle. The prothorax is 

 frequently variegated v/ith more or less defined markings which 

 tend to the form of the letter U (with its two extremities dilated 

 externally) occupying thedisc with or without some blotches 

 near the lateral margin. The example from the Chapuis 

 collection has this marking feebly defined but quite distinct. The 

 underside and legs vary from entirely testaceous to nearly 

 entirely black. This variation of the underside occurs in examples 

 that are certainly conspecific. In the Chapuis example the under- 

 side is almost entirely testaceous, the legs entirely so. The 

 antennae are moderately long and slender, resembling those of P. 

 inconstans; the prothorax does not differ much from that of P. 

 inconstans (apart from the markings already mentioned) except in 

 the sculpture of its disc tending towards more or less rugulosity, 

 with puncturation of less even appearance owing to the individual 

 punctures being of very unequal size inter se. In my specimens 

 from the Chapuis collection the prothorax is decidedlij rugulose 

 with the punctures of the disc at a maximum of inequality. 



I have before me a specimen ticketed ' maculicollis ' by Dr. 

 Chapuis which is decidedly identical with that ticketed '■decolorata^ 

 by the same learned author. It has the dark markings of the 



