BY REV. T. BLACKBURX. 



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absence of dark markings on the disc of the elytra, in joints 5-10 

 of the antenn?e being (not entirely blackish but) testaceous at the 

 base and on the side, in the abdomen being unicolorous, and in 

 the dilated tarsal joint of the male being narrower. Typical 

 specimens differ from lepida also in having the sutural vitta (not 

 black but) pale red and the head unicolorous. 



Var. % scaplwides. I take this to be the insect referred to by 

 Clark as bearing the MS. name scaplwides, Baly. Tt differs from 

 the type in the hind part of the head being black, the sutural 

 vitta being (either entirely or on its lateral margin) black, and 

 the seriate punctures of the elytra being infuscate. The size is 

 long. 2 lines. The species is found in W. Australia. 



P. MODESTA, Chp. 



Rather widely ovhI and rather strongly convex. ^^tr}- nitid. 

 Entirely testaceous except all tlie margins of the prothorax and 

 elvtra which are verj' narrowly of dark colour and the seriate 

 punctures of the elytra which (at any rate in some specimens) are 

 infuscate. The antennte are infuscate only on a comparatively 

 small part of each joint. The discal puncturation of the prothorax 

 is very evidently stronger than in lepida, Er., and the seriate 

 punctures of the elytra ai-e somewhat irregular, especially in the 

 apical ^ part, where some of the punctures are a little out of line 

 with the rest and the series are not evenly spaced one from 

 another, making some of the interstices wider than others and 

 some wider in one part than in another part. I have an example 

 named by Dr. Chapuis. The size is long. IJ-lf lines. Occurs in 

 W. Australia. 



P. FESTIVA, Chp. 



This species and the next are readily distinguished from the 

 preceding 5 and the following 2 by the structure of their antennae, 

 the apical 5 or 6 joints of which are strongly dilated, some of them 

 being actually wider than long. The present insect is extremely 

 variable in respect of markings. In a tj^pical examjile (which 

 seems to be a rare form) the head is black, the prothorax red, the 

 elytra red [with the suture (dilated around the scutellum and 



