BY H. J CARTER. 117 



■rendering its identification easy. The combined margins of the 

 elytra are to the disc as 3 : 4. 



PTBROUELyEUS SOLIDUS, n.sp. 



Widely and somewhat elongate-ovate, very convex longitu- 

 dinally and transversely, deep black, nitid, antennae and apical 

 joints of tarsi reddish. 



Head: transversely elliptic, with labrum prominent, truncate 

 and subrectangular, fringed with golden hair and closely 

 punctured; epistoraa strongly reflexed and hollowed within, 

 regularly and widely rounded in front and on sides, with finely 

 marked suture starting in front of eyes, continuing obliquely out- 

 wards to margin; e3'es large, separated by a space about equal to 

 their greatest diameter; distinctly but rather distantly punctured 

 on front, closely punctured towards the sides. Antennse stout, 

 third joint as long as fourth and fifth combined, with apical four 

 joints nearly round and wider than the rest. Prothorax almost 

 smooth or almost imperceptibly punctured, moderately convex, 

 and transverse (5 x 12 mm.), width measured at base, length in 

 middle; deeply semicircularly emarginate at apex, bisinuate at 

 base, sides a little rounded arcuately converging to apex, width 

 across anterior angles 4mm.; anterior angles widely rounded 

 (less widely than in P. Walkeri Breme), posterior angles acute and 

 slightly deflexed, foliaceous margins moderately wide, outer edge 

 reflected. Elytra slightly wider than and more than three times 

 as long as prothorax, very convex, with apical declivity steeply 

 inclined from behind the middle, apex rather sharp with each 

 elytron diverging and submucronate at apex (bluntly produced); 

 punctate-striate, each elytron with seventeen deep striae, besides 

 a short scutellary stria, containing rows of unevenly placed 

 large round punctures, intervals convex and minutely punctured, 

 the fourth and eighth wider and more raised than the rest, the 

 suture also slightly raised towards apex, the outside striae 

 containing large punctures, about seven (largest of all), more 

 widely separated, near the huineri; the margins narrower than 

 those of prothorax and horizontal with narrow outside border 



