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developed which is found also more or less conspicuously in a 

 good many of its allies, viz., 10 rows of punctui-es (of dark colour 

 and much larger than those of the upper surface) on the under 

 surface of the elytra which show through (especially if the elytra 

 be wetted with benzine ) and to a casual glance make the elytral 

 sculpture appear very diflferent from what it really is. I think 

 the more or less distinctness of this pseudo-sculpture depends 

 much on the action of alcohol. There is also a certain variability 

 (not sexual) in the (jenuine puncturation of the upper surface in 

 specimens taken under circumstances that establish their specific 

 identity — some being though very finely yet quite distinctly 

 punctulate and others almost devoid of puncturation. The colour 

 of the upper surface varies from orange-brown to piceous-red; the 

 prothorax is in some examples a little mottled with darker and 

 lighter shades of brown, and the marginal parts of the elytra tend 

 to be somewhat lighter than the disc with the extreme margin 

 (the actual edging) very narrowly piceous. The antennas are 

 dark brown with the basal part lighter, the legs usually brown 

 with the femora more or less inf uscate. The under surface varies 

 from brown to dark piceous. P. Clotho, Stal, is, I have no doubt, 

 a later name for this insect. I have an example named Glotlio by 

 Dr. Chapuis which is evidently identical with the type of hninnea 

 in the Macleay Collection. There is no very noticeable difference 

 in the sexes except the usual tarsal character, — the dilated joints 

 in the male being large and wide (much like the corresponding 

 joints in F. morio, Fab.). 



P. RUFOBRUNNEA, Chp. (MS.) 



Sat late ovata ; parum convexa ; subopaca ; supra brunnea, 

 capita (plus minusve) et scutelli elyti'orumque marginil)us 

 omnibus (his anguste) et nonnullorum exemplorum seriebus 

 in elytris piceis vel nigricantibus; corpore subtus pedibusque 

 nigris; antennis nigris basin versus subtus testaceis; capite 

 crebre subtilius punctulato; prothorace quam longiori ut 2^ 

 ad 1 latiori, crebre subtiliter vel subobsolete (ad latera 

 sparsim magis fortiter) punctulato, utrinque fovea sat magna 



