BY THOMAS G. SLOANE. 199 



extending beyond the clypea] suture, this distinct between the im- 

 pressions ; vertex with a strong transverse impression ; eyes 

 rather prominent ; post-ocular prominences large, about two- 

 thirds of eyes. Prothorax cordate, hardly broader than long 

 (3;| X 3| mm), rather flattened, broadest at about half the length ; 

 a strongly marked transverse impression behind, defining the 

 basal part ; the sides strongly rounded and nari'owed behind ; the 

 marginal border narrow, widened at the anterior angles, 

 not sinuate on the sides before the base, not reachinar 

 the middle of the base ; the basal angles well marked and 

 almost right angles ; the median line strongly impressed, not 

 reaching the anterior margin, but almost touching the base. 

 Elytra oval, shorter and proportionately rather broader than 

 usual (7 X 4| mm), subconvex, very little flattened on the dorsal 

 part, very little rounded on the sides, not perceptibly narrowed 

 to the base, strongly striate ; the shoulders rounded off" ; the base 

 truncate between them, and declivous to the peduncle ; seven first 

 striae distinctly marked ; the interstices flat. Three last ventral 

 segments lightly foveate and transversely impressed on each side. 

 Anterior thighs roundly dilatate ; anterior tarsi with four first 

 joints spongiose below, the fourth broad, the last joint not 

 narrowed at the base and rather flattened above. 



9. — Larger, broader, and more convex. 



Length 121 (^)-14r9), breadth 4i-5l mm. 



My specimens on which the above description is founded, I 

 received from Mr. A. Lee, as coming from Forest Reefs in the 

 Orange District, New South Wales ; Sir William Macleay's 

 specimens were from Piper's Flats near Wallerawang, New South 

 Wales. Closely allied to P. dorsals and P. semistriatus. The 

 moi-e noticeable points of difference from the former are : — the 

 general form rather less robust, the frontal impressions of the 

 head fainter, the post-ocular prominences smaller, the fovese of 

 the ventral segments small, and rounder, and the transverse im- 

 pressions of the segments much fainter ; from the latter it appears 

 to differ chiefly in its more robust and more convex form, and 

 in the elytra being le.ss narrowed to the shoulders. 



