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P. AUGUSTA, sp.nOV. 



Ovata (pone medium sat dilatato-rotundata) ; modice nitida ; 

 minus fortiter convexa ; rufo-testacea, antennis (articulis 

 basalibus 4 ex parte rufis exceptis) palporum apice capite in 

 medio et pone oculos mandibulis scutello corpore subtus 

 genubus tibiarum apice et tarsis nigris; capite inaequaliter 

 sat grosse (clypeo subtilius) punctulato ; prothorace quam 

 longiori duplo latiori, in disco acervatim subfortiter (ad 

 latera — his late subplanatis — grosse) punctulatis, angulis 

 anticis mucronatis posticis obtusis ; elytris obsoletissime 

 costulatis, confuse sat fortiter sat crebre (quam P. variolosce, 

 Marsh., magis fortiter minus crebre) punctulatis, puncturis 

 suturam versus antice parum subtilioribus sed posterius sat 

 subtilioribus, interstitiis transversim confuse (postice quam 

 antice vix magis fortiter) elevatis, parte laterali oblique 

 extrorsum (maris quam feminse magis fortiter) directa» 

 Long. 8-9, lat. 5|-6 lines. 

 ^. Antennis segmentum ventrale 2""^ attingentibus, elytris 



quam conjunctim latioribus vix longioribus. 

 5. Antennis segmentum ventrale basali vix attingentibus^ 



elytris quam conjunctim latioribus paullo longioribus. 

 This remarkably fine species is so decidedly larger than any 

 previously described Faropsis as to be recognisable on that 

 character alone. Other peculiarities are the quite discernible 

 (though very slight) quasi-costate appearance of the elytra, the 

 considerable outward turn of the extra-discal portion of the elytra 

 (stronger in the male than in tlie female) and the sudden dilata- 

 tion of the same about the middle of its length. This species is 

 incapable of confusion with variolosa, Marsh., and its close allies 

 on account of its very much less convexity longitudinally (i.e., 

 viewed from the side). The deep black colour of its under surface 

 — in some examples variegated with strongly contrasted yellow — 

 distinguishes it from Hygea, &c. From dehilitata it differs by the 

 much coarser sculpture of its elytra, from Manto by its narrower 

 prothorax (which by measurement is scarcely appreciably more 



