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large black spot with its front on the front margin of the proth orax 

 and extending back half way to the l^ase, but not reaching the 

 lateral margins ; also remarkable for the very regular seriate 

 arrangement of the punctures on the interstices of the elytra, 

 which moreover are less intermingled with confused (still finer) 

 puncturation than in the following species. 



W. Australia; taken by Mr. Lea near Geraldton. 



P. LEPIDA, Er. {tritceniata, Stal, fraterna, Chp. ?). 



I have not seen a Tasmanian example of this species;. but I 

 have a specimen from S. Australia and another from Victoria 

 which agree perfectly with the author's description. It is of 

 somewhat widely oval form and rather strongl}^ convex, the colour 

 testaceous (probably greenish in li\ing specimens) with the 

 external part of the antennae, a bifid mark on the hind part of 

 the head, the suture (widelj^), an interrupted discal vitta on each 

 elytron, and a vitta on each side of the abdomen, black or 

 blackish. The discal puncturation of the prothorax is fine and 

 not very close. The basal joint of the four anterior tarsi of the 

 male is comparatively strongly dilated (evidently more strongly 

 than in P. suhapicalis). Other characters are indicated in the 

 tabulation. The size is long. li-2l lines; the habitat South- 

 Eastern Australia and Tasmania. In my experience it is a rare 

 insect. 



P. MEDIOVITTATA, Clk. 



This species is of oval form (widely in the male, less widel}' in 

 the female), only moderately convex (I think Mr. Clark has used 

 too strong a term in calling it "depressed"), of testaceous colour 

 except the head (which is usually reddish), avv^ide pale red sutural 

 vitta (the actual sutural edging is ver}' narrowly blackish) and 

 the antennse which are infuscate. The puncturation of the pro- 

 thorax is much like that of lepida, Er. The basal joint of the 

 anterior four tarsi of the male is only feebly dilated. The inter- 

 stitial puncturation of the elytra runs xerj distinctly in rows and 

 is very distinctly finer than that of the 10 series. The insect is 

 extremely close to P. lepida, Er., from which it differs in the 



