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in disco confertim dupliciter (subtiliter et minus siibtiliter) 

 punctulato, ad latera (his vix impressis et quam P. reticulatce, 

 Marsh., minus deplanatis), grosse rugulosis, anguHs anticis 

 mucronatis posticis rotundatis; elytris (fere ut P. reticulatce, 

 Marsh.), confertim granulosis. Long. 5-6, lat. 4-4| lines. 

 Maris elytris quam conjunctim latioribus vix (feminai paullo) 



longioribus. 

 Closely allied to P. reticulata, Marsh., and not differing from 

 it much except in the puncturation of the head and disc of pro- 

 notum, which is very different, consisting of close scarcely 

 irregular or acervate punctures; of these some are fine and others 

 evidently less fine, and they are all confusedly intermingled. It 

 is to be noted also that in this species the vague fovea-like im- 

 pression on either side of the pronotum is evidently feebler than 

 in reticulata^ and that the lateral coarsely sculptured part of the 

 pronotum continues the convexity of the disc almost evenly 

 instead of being (as it is in reticulata) somewhat flattened out. 

 W. Australia; Albany (Meyrick) and Swan River (Lea). 



P. Omphale, sp.nov. 



9. Ovata; minus nitida; sat fortiter convexa (e latere visa fere 

 ut P. Charyhdis, Stal); testacea, nonnullis exemplis supra 

 rufescentibus vel piceo-umbratis, elytrorum verrucis albis vel 

 pallide flavis ; capite modice sat acervatim punctulato ; 

 antennis abdomen fere attingentibus; prothorace ut 6 ad 2J 

 longiori, in disco acervatim subfortiter (ad latera — his mani- 

 festo deplanatis— grosse) punctulato, angulis anticis mucro- 

 natis posticis rotundatis; elytris crebre verrucosis, verrucis 

 nonnihil ut P. reticulata, Marsh., sed in elytrorum parte 

 antica dimidia multo majoribus et hie puncturis inter 

 verrucas valde perspicuis. Long. 5, lat. 34 lines. 

 This is a very distinct species. In form it resembles P. 

 Charybdis, Stal, but is evidently less convex longitudinally. 

 The sculpture of its elytra is of the same kind as in P. reticidata, 

 Marsh., bat the elevations on the front half are much larger in 



