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impressions appearing gibbous or almost tuberculous. This species 

 is also notable for the unusually (among its near allies) coarse 

 puncturation of the submarginal part of the elytra. I have taken 

 these various forms together under circumstances that allow no 

 doubt of their specific identity. The colour-differences are not 

 sexual. The fovea on either side of the prothorax is very well 

 marked and deep, but smaller than in most of the allied species. 

 The suture is carinate in a short portion of the hinder part of its 

 length. I suspect (equalis, Chp., of being a variety of this species, 

 but cannot definitely assert it to be so, as I have not seen a 

 specimen quite agreeing with the description in respect of colour, 

 although I have one diflFering only in having the femora not quite 

 dark enough in colour. P. cequalis is attributed by its author to 

 Gippsland, where stygia in all its varieties is a common insect. I 

 have the insect from various localities in Victoria, and a single 

 example from N.S. Wales. 



P. ANGUSTIPES, sp.nOV. 



Ovata; modice lata; nitidissima; nigra, antennis subtus basin 



versus testaceis, nonnullorum exemplorum capite postice 



picescenti; capite crebrius subtiUus punctulato; prothorace 



quam longiori ut plus quam 2\ ad 1 latiori, ab apice fere ad 



basin dilatato, crebre subtilissime (ad latera sparsius fortiter) 



punctulato, latera versus fovea magna profunda impresso, 



lateribus sat arcuatis, angulis posticis rotundatis; scutello 



Ifevi; elytris haud striatis, minus perspicue 10-seriatim punc- 



tulatis, antice ad latera bi-impressis, interstitiis planis sub- 



tiliter punctulatis, serierum interstitiorumque puncturis inter 



se {equalibus. 



Mas quam femina manifeste latior, tarsorum anticorum 4 



articulo basali prfeter modum angusto ( intermediorum quam 



latiori circiter duplo longiori). Long. 5-54, lat. 3|-4i lines. 



I have seen about half-a-dozen specimens of this insect which 



shows little tendency to variation, Its very nitid black surface, 



with the tarsal dilatation of the male unusually slight and two 



