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the entirely different form of its head. It is of testaceous-ljrown 

 colour except some variable (but fairly well defined) fuscous 

 blotches on the interstices of the elytra, which are so placed as to 

 form more or less distinctly 4 transverse fascife, which are more or 

 less connected by longitudinal fuscous colouring along the suture, 

 and a little within the lateral margin, none of the fuscous colouring 

 reaching to the actual marginal portion of the elytra. The 

 antennas are slightly infuscate, and are not of the structure pre- 

 valent among the immediately allied species, the dilatation of the 

 joints commencing (feebly, but distinctly) at the 4th joint. The 

 prosternal structure is as in P. apicata. The basal joint of the 

 anterior 4 tarsi of the male is distinctly less dilated than in 

 apicata, and has less rounded sides. I have the insect from 

 Victoria ; its author quotes Tasmania and S. Australia as its 

 habitat. It is of very small size (long li-H lines.) One of my 

 specimens was named by Dr. Chapuis. 



P. NiOBE, sp.nov. 



Ovalis ; subelongata ; minus convexa ; sat (mas) vel minus 

 (femina) nitida; testacea vel viridi-testacea, antennis apicem 

 versus infuscatis vel nigricantibus; capite subgrosse subcrebre 

 nee profunde punctulato; antennis minus brevibus, articulis 

 1° brevi 2-6 cylindricis 7° apicem versus leviter incrassato- 

 depresso quam 8"^ haud breviori, 8-10 manifeste nee abrupte 

 incrassatis quam latioribus perspicue longioribus; prolhorace 

 quam longiori ut 2 J ad 1 latiori, fere a?quali, in disco (maris 

 vix perspicue, feminas sat manifeste) subtiliter minus crebre 

 latera versus sat fortiter punctulato, lateribus leviter arcuatis, 

 angulis obtusis; elytris havid vel vix striatis, distincte minus 

 fortiter 10-seriatim punctulatis, sutura postice manifeste 

 carinata, parte marginali quam series externte vix magis 

 fortiter punctulata; prosterni parte mediana haud sulcata, ad 

 latera obsolete carinata. 



(J. Tarsorum anteriorum 4 articulo basali fortiter dilatato quam 

 articulus 3"^ sat latiori, lateribus sat rotundatis; elytrorum 

 interstitiis sat planis subtiliter nee seriatim punctulatis. 



