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with a narrow testaceous rim along the sides and front, this rini 

 much dilated in the middle of the front and there narrowly- 

 connected with a large testaceous blotch on the middle of the 

 base. In no example with the prothoracic markings of puncti- 

 pennis is there any dark colouring on the elytra (except the 

 verrucse); but in both the specimens of bla/ida the suture is 

 broadly black from the base to nearly the middle of its length, 

 with a small dilatation round the scutellum, a larger one a little 

 behind it, and a still larger one at the extremity of the dark 

 colouring, while both examples have some (one more than the 

 other) black blotches on the disc of the elytra. Great as are 

 these differences of colour and markings, I should nevertheless 

 not think it impossible that the two forms might represent one 

 species were it not that hhoida is a markedly more convex species, 

 the length of its elytra viewed from the side being only half 

 again their height, while in panctipennis their length is fully 

 once and three-quarters their height, the elytra in the former 

 species being much more gibbous behind the scutellum than in 

 the latter. 



N.S. Wales; Richmond River, ko,.; taken by Mr. Lea. 



P. CREBERRIMA, sp.nOV. 



Late suboA'ata, valde convexa, altitudine majori (a latei'e visa) 

 ante elytrorum marginem medium posita; subnitida; rufo- 

 vel piceo-ferruginea, elytris vittis nonnullis piceis abbreviatis 

 ornatis, capite (nonnullorum exemplorum) piceo-bimaculato; 

 hoc minus crebre minus fortiter punctulato; prothorace quam 

 longiori ut 2| ad 1 latiori, ab apice longe ultra medium 

 dilatato, pone apicem transversim impresso, crebre subtilius 

 minus tequaliter (ad latera grosse rugulose) punctulato, 

 lateribus sat arcuatis vix deplanatis, angvdis posticis rotun- 

 datis; scutello haud vel vix punctulato; elytris sub callum 

 humeralem minus distincte depressis, pone basin impressis, 

 sat crebre subseriatim (latera versus paullo magis fortiter) 

 punctulatis, verrucis numerosis subseriatis sat aequaliter dis- 

 positis instructis, interstitiis confertim rugulosis (sicut 



