BY THOMAS G. SLOANE. 453 



The large head and the prothorax wider than usual in com- 

 parison with the elytra are marked features in this species and 

 are especially noticeable in the ^. 



31. P. LEAi, n.sp. 



2. Oval, convex; head large; prothorax transverse, bordered on 

 base ; elytra widely oval, obsoletely striate near suture ; meta- 

 sternum with episterna short (subquadrate), epimera short — 

 about twice as broad as long. Black, shining ; upper surface 

 obscurely bronzed ; tibiie piceous ; antennae, palpi and tarsi 

 piceous-red. 



Head large, wide at base, convex ; clypeal suture distinct, 

 lightly impressed; clypeus emarginate; eyes round, convex, pro- 

 minent ; orbits swollen behind eyes ; postocular prominences 

 sharply raised postei'iorly, about half size of eyes; space between 

 eye and subocular ridge wider than eye. Labrum widely and 

 lightly emarginate. Palpi with apical joint long, slender, lightly 

 dilatate in middle, truncate. Prothorax broader than long 

 (3 '5 X 3-9 mm.), convex (a little depressed on disc), widest just 

 behind anterior marginal puncture; sides lightly rounded, strongly 

 narrowed posteriorly, lightly narrowed anteriorly; anterior margin 

 truncate ; anterior angles not marked, hardly projecting fx'om 

 head ; basal angles almost rectangular (very lightly obtuse) ; 

 border narrow, not sinuate before base, entire on base; median 

 line strongly impressed; a well marked transverse impression a 

 little in front of base. Elytra wide, oval (7 x 5-25 mm.), convex 

 (hardly depressed on disc), widest about middle; sides strongly 

 rounded; shoulders wide, roundly narrowed to peduncle (obsoletely 

 striate on disc). Prosternum roundly and strongly acclivous to 

 anterior margin. Ventral segments roundly foveate on each side. 

 Legs light; posterior trochanters reniform, short; posterior tarsi 

 with apical joint narrowed to base. 



Length 13, breadth 5-25 mm. 



Hab. — Newcastle (Lea, one example). 



This species has more resemblance to F. blackburni, SI., than 

 to any other described species; it is, however, a larger species 



