Genxjs 214. — PELORORHINUS. laS 



sin thoracis attingentes, sub-tenues, nigras, griseo-squamulos« et 

 fusco situlosse, clava oblonga, acuminata, basi fusca. Thorax lati- 

 tudine baseos non brevior, anterius paulo angustior, ante medium 

 rotundato-ampliatus, basi truncatus, apice dorsi insignitcr rotun- 

 dato-productus, supra modice convexus, vix caualiculatus, tuber- 

 culis exiguis undique sub-remote obsitus, niger, squamositate ci- 

 nerco-albida, supra parcius, inferne dcnsius vestitus, in dorso pras- 

 terca sctulis decumbentibus, albidis, parcc ol)situs. Scutelkim 

 elevatum, rotundatum, densc albido-squaniüsum. Elytra antice 

 conjunctini sub-tri-sinuata , iljique cum caUis humeralibus , J^asi 

 thoracis duplo latiora, pone humeros sub-hnearia vel posterius 

 Icviter modo amphata, margine laterah sub-inflexo, ante mecbum 

 leviter sinuato, apice conjunctim rotundata, thorace quadruplo 

 longiora, supra parum convexa , intra apicem utrinquc oJihquc 

 impressa, sub-remote striato-punctata , interstitiis dorsahbus sat 

 distincte costatis, alternis elevatioribus, omnibus sub-seriatim gra- 

 nulatis; tota nigra, squamuHs cinerascentibus, in costis dorsahbus 

 setuhs immixtis, vestita. Corpus subtus et pedes nigra, cinereo- 

 alljido-squamosa, illud disperse punctatum, bi sub-recti, femori- 

 bus perparum incrassatis, tarsis subtus belvo-spongiosis. — Fhs. 



* , 



2. P. Argentosus. Schh. — Huj. op. II. p. ü/jg. i. 



ßoiSDtiv. Foy. de l'Aslrol. II. p. 353. 

 Palria : Nova HoUandia. 



* 3. P. Maculosus. Hope. 



Oblonrjus, niger, supra sqiiamuUs argenteis, nilicUs , in thorace (ri-li- 

 ncatitn concjestls, in elylris apice condensatis, dorso griseo-varicga- 

 tis, obsitus ; subtus isabeUino-scpiamosus ; apice villaqne inarginali 

 pectoris argenteis, fronte antice bi-vernicosa; rostro basi transver- 

 sim profunde impresso; thorace ruyoso; elylris punctato-strialis. 



Palria : Nova Ilollandia. ADom. IIope ad describendum bene- 

 vole missus. 



Longitudine praeter rostrum 5 '|/^ln'i. Par. — Caput convexum, 

 i'ugoso-punctatum , nigrum, squamositate argentca, nitida, sub- 

 tus lateribusque dense, supra, pra;ter hneam longitudinalem in 

 medio, parce vestitum; fronte antice gibba, vernicis duabus vaU- 

 dis, punctatis, elevatis, ante singulum oculum ad latera foveola 

 transversa profixnde impressa; ocuU breviter sub-ovati, sat promi- 

 nuh, nigri; rostrum capite paulo longius, at vix dimidii ejus lati- 



