BY REV. T. BLACKBURX. 693 



P. VOMICA, sp.nov. 



(j . Latiasime ovata; fortiter convexa, altitudine majori (a latere 

 visa) anterius quam contra elytrorum marginem medium 

 posita; sat nitida; rufo-brunnea, elytrorum verrucis testaceis 

 vel flavescentibus, corpoi'e subtus in majori parte picescenti; 

 capite sat crebr6 aspere punctulato; prothorace quam longiori 

 ut 2| ad 1 latiori, ab apice paullo ultra medium dilatato, 

 pone apicem transversim vix impresso, sat crebre dupliciter 

 (subtiliter et sat fortiter, ad latera grosse) punctulato, latei'i. 

 bus sat arcuatis late distincte deplanatis, angulis posticis 

 rotundatis; scutello fere Ipevi; elytris sub callum humeralem 

 haud depressis, pone basin baud impressis, subtilius vix 

 seriatim (ad latera vix magis grosse) punctulatis, verrucis 

 magnis (minus fortiter elevatis) numerosis seriatim instructis, 

 interstitiis paullo rugulosis, parte marginali a disco (nisi 

 apicem versus) minus distincta, calli humeralis margine 

 interno a sutura quam ab elytrorum margine laterali paullo 

 magis distanti; segmento ventrali basali subla?vi; antennarum 

 articulo 3° quam 4"^ sat longiori. 

 9. Quam mas paullo minus lata, segmento \entrali apieali magis 



perspicue punctvilato. Long. 4-44, lat. 3^ lines. 

 An extremely distinct species, on account of the large moder- 

 ately elevated verrucee of the elytra conspicuously more pallid 

 than the general surface and very evenly distributed except on a 

 small roundish common antemedian space. Its strongl}'^ convex 

 form suggests alliance with the species of the next subgroup, but 

 the greatest height of its elytra is very little in front of the 

 middle. It seems to be somewhat uncertain in position in the 

 genus, the slightness of the tendency to seriate arrangement in 

 the punctures of its elytra being suggestive of species with the 

 front angles of the prothorax mucronate. 



N. W. Australia; sent to me by Mr. Masters. 



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