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rugulose (ad latera grosse rugulose) punctulato, utrinque 



latera versus late profunde impresso, lateribus ante medium 



profunde 2-emarginatis, angulis posticis fere nullis; elytris 



fortiter sat crebre (quam P. camosai, Baly, vix minus crebre) 



punctulatis, interstitiis subaequaliter sat fortiter (fere ut F. 



carnoscB sed paullo minus fortiter) verrucosis. Long. 4^, 



lat. 3;V lines. 



In most respects resembling P. carnosa, Bal}-, but with the 



disc of the pronotum distinctly less closely, much more finely and 



not at all rugulosely punctured and very much more nitid, and 



the sides of the pronotum bearing a large and deep (but not 



sharply limited) impression, the general form a little less strongly 



convex, and the verrucse of the elytra somewhat less coarse and 



close, so that they do not so much obscure the puncturation. 



Compared with cotivexa, Blackb., this species is very much less 



convex (viewed from the side), with the discal puncturation of 



its pronotum very much less close and its elytral verruc^e very 



much less obscuring the puncturation. The very nitid surface of 



its pronotum, which 'is due to the absolutely non-rugulose and 



comparatively sparse character of the puncturation, distinguishes 



it T think from all its near allies. 



W. Australia; taken 1)} Mr. E. Meyrick. 



P. POROSA, Er. 



The form of the prosternum in this species is liable to a certain 

 variation. In some specimens the sulcation of its hinder portion 

 continues forward to much beyond the middle of its length, but 

 even in those specimens the convex front part is longer than in 

 the species having their prosternum of the normal form. 



P, Cassiope, sp.nov. 



9. Ovata; sat nitida, minus convexa (e latere visa quam P. 

 irrorata, Clip., vix magis convexa); pallide llavo-testacea, 

 elytrorum puncturis nonnullis ;his in parte laterali positis) 

 nigris; capite crebre subtilius punctulato; an tennis quam 

 corporis dimidium vix brevioribus; prothorace (juam longiori 



