BY REV. T. BLACKBURN. 683 



blotches fall into lines transversely in two rows (one at, the other 

 a little behind the middle of the elytra), neither of the rows 

 extending further than about half-way from the suture to the 

 lateral margin, the front row slightly (the hinder one more 

 strongly) curved, the convexity of the curve directed hind ward. 

 There is also a small blotch near the lateral margin in line with 

 the hinder row of blotches. Occasionally some of the blotches 

 are wanting, and I have one example in which the hinder row is 

 prolonged on each elytron nearly to the margin. The antennae 

 are somewhat short and not particularly robust. The prothorax 

 is closely but not strongly punctulate, the lateral punctures how- 

 ever rather coarse. The elytra are not (or scai^cely) striate, with 

 the 10 series well marked but not at all coarse, their punctures 

 closely placed. The prosternum is on its middle line sulcate and 

 bicarinate only in the hinder half, and there at most feebly. The 

 basal joint of the anterior 4 tarsi of the male is only feebly dilated. 

 The size is long. 2-2^ lines; the habitat S. Australia. 



Var. (1) planior. A P. suhfasciata, Chp. ,differt forma (prseser- 

 tim feminje) perspicue magis depressa. 



I reo'ard this insect as the Tasmanian race of subfasciata. I 

 can specify no distinction between it and S. Australian examples, 

 except in its very evidently more depressed form and a tendency 

 to infuscation about the humeral callus, this latter character 

 indicating an approach to the Sydney insect which I take to be 

 notatipennis, Chp. 



P. XOTATIPENNIS, Chp. 



If I were sure that the Sydney specimens which I regard as 

 representing this species are correctly identified I should have no 

 hesitation whatever in sinking the name as a synonym of sub- 

 fasciata, Chp. In the absence of certainty on the point, I can 

 only say that there is nothing in the description of notatipennis 

 (apart from the markings) definitely incompatible with the 

 description of siihfasciata unless it be that the prothorax of the 

 former is called " foveolate at the sides," whereas nothing is said 

 about the sculpture — whether foveolate, impressed, or even — of 



