562 REVISION OF THE AMYCTERIDiE, 



Head large, strongly convex, sparingly setigero-punctate. 

 Rostrum short, wide, excavate, internal ridges short, basal 

 impressions deep and with median notch, median area strongly 

 depressed in front. Mandibles densely clothed with long light- 

 coloured setae, outer portion lipped. Prothorax transverse 

 (7 X 8 mm.), evenly rounded on sides; median lobe briefly pro- 

 duced, collar-constriction faint, no median line; densely granulate, 

 granules discrete, rounded, rather smaller and closer in the 

 centre, each with a single stout yellow seta. Elytra ovate, 

 strongly declivous (17x10-5 mm.), evenly rounded on sides, 

 broadest about middle; base widely emarginate, shoulders slightly 

 produced; apex broadly flanged, mucronate. Disc striate, striae 

 irregular, shallow, crossed by transverse setigerous ridges; inter- 

 stices convex, broad, irregular, granules umbilicated, setigerous, 

 first interstice in single series except at base where it is doubled; 

 other interstices in double series, tending in places to be in 

 triple series; fourth interstice in single series at base and apex. 

 Sides irregularly granulate. Metasternum shallowly and widely 

 impressed, rather densely clothed with yellow setae. Fifth 

 ventral segment deeply excavate, excavation not reaching anterior 

 margin; preanal fossa deep but not sharply marked off from rest 

 of excavation; posterior edge fringed at base of forceps with 

 short yellow hair; fascicles short, moderately widely separated 

 (3 mm.), situated on edge of excavation. Forceps long, stout, 

 feebly curved; laminae very small, linear, hidden from in front by 

 a fringe of short yellow scales. Apical tergite bicornuate. Legs 

 moderately long, tibiae feebly curved. Dimensions: (J, 26 x 10*5mm. 



Hah, — Victoria. 



Though a member of the P.-forficidata-gvou^, it is not close 

 to any other species known to me. I have placed it in the table 

 next to P. Frenchi, but its elytral sculpture will distinguish it 

 from that species. From P. forfic7ilata, it differs in its much 

 more robust form, much coarser elytral sculpture, and in the 

 abdominal fascicles. The abs6nce of the bifid interforficular 

 process will also serve to distinguish this species among the 

 granulate members of this group. 



