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Macleay Collection. I have collected the species in Tasmania and 

 Victoria, and it pi'obably occurs in New South Wales, although I 

 have not seen an example that I can positively allirm to have 

 been taken there. 



P. SCUTELLATA, Chp. 



This and the following 4 species are somewhat closely allied 

 inter se, being readily distinguishable from the others of the sub- 

 group (one or two very small species near the end of the subgroup 

 perhaps excepted) by their oval depressed form, with the elytra 

 quite strongly explanate at the apex which causes the suture to 

 appear (when looked at obliquely from the side) bluntly 

 mucronate. The present species is the one of the five in which 

 the apical flattening of the elytra is least sti'ongly developed. It 

 differs from the other 4 moreover in the seriate punctures of its 

 elytra becoming very coarse in the hinder part, so that the inter- 

 stices between some of the series are much narrower than the 

 diameter of a puncture. It is of entirely testaceous colour except 

 that the antennae are a little infuscate towards the apex, and in 

 some examples the seriate punctures are infuscate. The scutellum 

 is said by Dr. Chapuis to he transverse, but I find that its appear- 

 ing so depends on whether the prothorax is pushed back over the 

 base of the elj-tra. I have an example named by Dr. Chapuis. 

 The size is long. 3.^ lines. The habitat is N.3. Wales. I have seen 

 only three examples (all females). It is to be noted that in this 

 and the following 4 species the basal joint of tlie antennae is ver}^ 

 short and the sulcation of the middle part of the prosternum very 

 feeble, the middle line itself being finely convex and almost (or 

 even quite in turbata) raised above the lateral carinas. 



P. Hera, StUl (1 P. virens, Chp.). 



The apical flattening of the elytra in this species is very strong. 

 In colouring it scarcely differs from P. scutellata except in having 

 a dark spot or two dark spots (varying from dark red to black, 

 in some examples all four spots coalescing into a common fascia) 

 on the apical declivity of the elytra, and I have not seen anv 

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