BY REV. T. BLACKBURN. 691 



an ill-defined festoon-like patch of blackish colour a little behind 

 the base (its extremities on the humeral calli), behind which the 

 whole surface (except the front half of the marginal portion) is 

 thickly set with blackish irrorations ver}^ various in size. Genuine 

 verrucie are almost non-existent except near the apex, and even 

 there they are so much mixed with confused rugulosity as to need 

 being looked for. 



Victoria; on the higher Alps. 



P. BOREALIS, Sp.nov. 



Subovata; sat fortiter convexa, altitudine majori (a latere visa) 

 contra elytrorum marginem medium posita; nitida; rufa, 

 prothoracis marginibus scutello elytrorum macula communi 

 antemediana et utrinque macula prope humerum posita cor- 

 poreque subtus (hoc maculatim) indeterminate piceis; capite 

 sparsim subfortiter punctulato; prothorace quam longiori ut 

 2^ ad 1 latiori, ab apice vix ultra medium dilatato, pone 

 apicem transversim haud impresso, sparsim inyequaliter sub- 

 acervatim (ad latera sat grosse sat crebre nee confluenter) 

 punctulato, lateribus minus fortiter arcuatis haud deplanatis, 

 angulis posticis rotundatis; scutello punctulato; elytris sub 

 callum humeralem haud depressis, pone basin nullo modo 

 impressis, minus fortiter sat crebre sat lequaliter (antice 

 suturam versus magis subtiliter) subseriatmi punctulatis, 

 verrucis nonnullis parvis subseriatim dispositis instructis, 

 interstitiis vix rugulosis, parte marginali a disco haud dis- 

 tincta, calli humeralis margine interno a sutura quam ab 

 elytrorum margine laterali paullo magis distanti; segmento 

 ventrali basali sparsim obsolete punctulato. Long. 4, lat. 

 24 lines. 



•As the type has lost its tarsi, I am not sure of its sex, Ijut have 

 little doubt of its being a female. The entire absence of any 

 trace of a suVjbasal elytral impression and the evenness of the 

 elytral puncturation are well-marked characters. The incon- 

 spicuous \ errucaj are concolorous with the derm and run in fairly 



