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base and two smaller ones of somewhat similar form placed trans- 

 versely near the apex. In heat a (and all its vars.) the front 

 blotch is more or less triangular (its apex near the lateral margin) 

 and the elytra have a wide red lateral border. As I have seen 

 no examples that can be called intermediate, I think the two may 

 lie considered distinct. 



P. OCTOSIGNATA, Still. 



The four spots on the elytra of this species seem to be constant. 

 Th'^ colour is subject to a good deal of variety, some examples 

 being (except the elytral spots and the vertex) entirely black, 

 some having the prothorax laterally or wholly brownish, others 

 having the elytra piceous, and others again the lateral and apical 

 parts of the elytra brownish. 



P. SEMIVITTATA, sp.nOV. 



Modice convexa; nitida; nigra vel nigro-picea, capite prothorace 

 (hoc vage piceo-adumbrato)antennis pedibus (his plus minusve 

 infuscatis) et in utroque elytro vittis 10 (his plus mmusve 

 interruptis, alternis conspicuis alternis subobsoletis) lividis; 

 capite prothoraceque subtiliter sat crebre punctulatis ; hoc 

 quam longiori ut 2^-^ ad 1 latiori, ab apice ultra medium 

 dilatato, latera versus fovea magna profunda impresso, lateri- 

 bus sat arcuatis, angulis posticis rotundatis; scutello Isevi; 

 elytris nullo modo striatis, vix seriatim subtiliter punctulatis, 

 interstitiis planis confuse punctulatis, puncturis serierum et 

 interstitiorum nullo modo magnitudine disparibus, parte 

 marginali quam strise baud magis fortiter punctulata. 

 $. Subcircularis; 9 minus late ovata. Long. 51-6, lat. 4^ lines. 

 ISTearest to P. vittipewiis, Bohem., but differing from it by its 

 smaller size, diffei-ent markings, closer and less extremely fine 

 puncturation, and by the flat interstices of its elytra as well as 

 by the 10 rows of punctures on the elytra being scarcely traceable. 

 This latter character is mainly caused by the flatness of the inter- 

 stices, as the rows of punctures in vitfipennis are indicated 

 chiefly through their contiguity to convex interstices. It is to be 



