574 REVISION OF THE AMYCTERID^, 



The following excerpts from the description would seem to 

 indicate a species of the F.-impressa-grouip: — " Oculi subovati." 

 -"Thorax latitudine medii non longior, rotundatus; antice leviter 

 bisinuatus, lobo medio parum producto." " Elytra . . . angulo 

 huraerali prominulo, tuberculato; .... supra convexa, obsolete 

 tranversim rugulosa et adhuc obsoletius striato-punctata, inter- 

 «titiis alternis elevatioribus, subcostatis, omnibus subtilius seri- 

 atim tuberculatis, . . . ." 



The species named by me P. culirata, has been sent out from 

 the Brussels Museum under the name of P. mirahunda Gyll. 

 There is, however, no means of knowing how this identification 

 was arrived at, and there are several points about the clothing 

 which are laid stress upon in the description, and which are at 

 variance with F. cultrata : — " Thorax . . . tuberculis - . . poro 

 €t seta declinata, pallida, instructis." " Elytra .... tuberculis 

 poro et seta pallida instructis; nigro-fusca, opaca, in cavitatibus 

 parce cinero-squamalosa." 



In P. cultrata the setse are of very dark brown or black colour, 

 while the elytral clothing, though sparingly present in the 

 *' cavities," can hardly be called cinereous. 



Of the last segment it states — *' Segmento ultimo magno, rotun- 

 dato, medio impresso." This, though there is a faint mesial 

 impression, agrees much more with the female of P. impressa, as 

 do also the clothing and setse. 



I have a female which agrees very closely with the description 

 of P. inirahunda Gyll., but, as the females of several of this 

 group also do so, I hesitate to describe it more fully. 



PSALIDURA FLAVOVARIA, n.sp. 



^. Elliptical-oval, convex. Prothorax finely granulate, elytra 

 striate, interstices granulate; fascicles moderately close; forceps 

 short, laminae long and overlapping. Black, rather densely 

 clothed with fine scales varying on the elytra from yellow to 

 reddish-brown, elsewhere yellow, undersurface bare except for a 

 few scales, more marked on metasternum and at sides, setse 

 yellow, long; fascicles red, anal hairs dark brown. 



