82 SUBFAMILIES CYPHALEIN& AND CNODALONIN^E, 



Head and prothorax finely, closely punctate, the former with 

 labrum ciliate and emarginate ; epistoma truncate in front, 

 rounded at sides, can thus not prominent, suture scarcely defined; 

 eyes partly concealed by prothorax, separated by a distance wider 

 than the transverse diameter of one eye; antennae extending 

 beyond the middle of prothorax, four apical joints considerably 

 enlarged, 3 longer than 4, less than 4 and 5 combined, 8-10 

 nearly round, 11 ovoid. Prothorax wider at base than at apex, 

 arcuate-emarginate at apex, anterior angles prominent and rather 

 widely acute; sides evenly rounded, with round, raised, strongly 

 thickened and finely punctured border, narrowly channelled 

 within; posterior angles acute, and produced a little backward, 

 border narrowed and continued on apex as far as the eye: base 

 very sinuate, without a border, middle lobe wide, middle line 

 faintly indicated by laevigate space on basal half. Scutellum 

 triangular, depressed in middle, minutely punctate. Elytra 

 slightly wider than prothorax at base, convex and a little gibbous 

 at shoulders, these obtuse; sides subparallel on middle two- 

 thirds, flanks a little flattened at middle: striate-punctate, with 

 twelve faintly impressed stripe (besides a short scutellary one), 

 the punctures irregular in size and distance (very similar to 

 those in P. cyanens Pasc), both striae and punctures becoming 

 obsolete at apex, obscure and irregular on the sides, intervals flat 

 and very minutely punctate. Abdomen finely striolate, apical 

 segment only showing minute punctures, sides of metasternum 

 with oval ridged punctures, epimera with large round punctures, 

 intercoxal process wide, its apex truncate; prosternum coarsely 

 rugose, its process narrowly conical, not carinate, narrowly 

 rounded behind, produced and almost pointed at apex; mandibles 

 bifid at apex; tarsi rather short, not enlarged in the male, 

 posterior tarsi with basal joint as long as the next two, claw- 

 joint not as long as the rest combined. Dimensions, 11-14 x 

 5J-7 mm. 



#«&.— North Queensland(Mr. F. Dodd). 



Eight specimens, sent by Mr. Dodd, are near but distinct 

 from P. cyaneus Pasc, from which it differs in its narrower and 

 more elongate form, more widely rounded and thickened border 



