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surface colour of the elytra being more red in some examples 

 than in others. 



P. BASICOLLIS, Chp. 



The only variety that I have seen of this species is a very 

 remarkable one that I met with in the Australian Alps (in com- 

 pany with the type), in which the discal spots of the elytra are 



entirely wanting. 



P. PICTURATA, Chp. 



This species rarely varies except in the size of the red spot 

 enclosed within the discal black vitta of the prothorax; neverthe- 

 less I have an example from Queensland in which the said red 

 spot is enlarged to the extent of interrupting the black vitta so 

 that the latter takes the form of two black spots (one of them 

 basal and quadrate with its front margin emarginate, the other 

 apical and triangular with its base on the front margin of the 

 segment), and the elytral red spot is widely interrupted. 



P. PERPLEXA, Chp. 



Dr. Chapuis placed this species in his " Groupe ii." I feel no 

 doubt, however, that this was an oversight on his part, as its 

 natural place is obviously among the species which he placed in 

 his " Groupe iv." and it is really very close to P. riohiginosa, Chp, 

 I regard it aLsoas allied to P. orpliana, Chp., and suturalis^ Germ., 

 although the exigencies of classification require its being widely 

 separated from them on account of the very different sculpture of 

 its elytra. 



P. QUADRIZONATA, Sp.nOV. 



Late ovalis, sat convexa, altitudine majori (a latere visa) contra 

 elytrorum marginem medium posita; supra rufa, capite (labro 

 et macula interoculari parva exceptis) prothoracis maculis 

 discoidalibus 4 (transversim positis) et elytrorum notulis 

 nonnullis (sc. regione scutellari, sutura — tota vel in parte — , 

 macula magna basali callum humeralem includenti, maculis 

 2 paullo pone basin transversim positis, notula falciformi 

 pone medium posita, et macula ante-apicali transversim 

 oblonga) nigris; subtus nigra, pedibus et antennarum parte 

 basali rufis (tibiarum basi nigris) ; capite minus crebre 



