BY REV. T. BLACK BURX. 657 



II. The elytral verruca- very con- 

 spicuous and pallid solitaria, Blackb. 



HH. Surfaceof elytra (disregarding 

 the verruca') closely granu- 

 lose-rugulose even at the base lima, Blackb. 

 FF. Puncturation of the elytra excep- 

 tionally fine invalida, Blackb. 



CC. Elytra having a well-defined transverse 



wheal-like ridge transversalis, Blackb. 



AA. Inner edge of humeral callus equidistant 



between suture and lateral margin of elytra exarata, Chp. 



P. COMMA, sp.nov. 



Sat late subovata, modice convexa, altitudine majori (a latere 

 visa) contra marginem medium (vel paullo magis antice) 

 posita; sat nitida; ferruginea, capite postice prothoracis 

 maculis 2 (his figurara comma simulantibus) et elytrorum 

 verrucis nigris, lateribus dilutioribus, corpore subtus nigro 

 (rufo-A'ariegato) antennis basi excepta piceis; capite subtilius 

 subrugulose punctulato; prothorace quam longiori ut 2t ad 

 1 latiori, ab apice sat longe ultra medium dilatato, pone 

 aijicem transversim minus perspicue impresso, sat fortiter vix 

 confertim (ad latera grosse rugulose) punctulato, lateribus 

 fortiter arcuatis late leviter deplanatis, angulis posticis nullis; 

 scutello sul)kevi; elytris sub callum humeralem leviter de- 

 pressis, pone basin transversim leviter impressis, fortiter sat 

 crebre subseriatim (ad latera paullo magis, postice paullo 

 minus, grosse) punctulatis, verrucis (his a basi ad apicem 

 continuis) elongatis cum aliis rotundatis instructis, inter- 

 stitiis minus I'ugulosis, parte marginali lata a disco (per 

 sulculum ante medium vix interruptum) divisa, calli humeralis 

 margine interno a sutura quam ab elytrorum margine 

 laterali vix magis distanti; segmento ventrali basali (hoc 

 rufo) sparsim subtilius punctulato; antennarum articulo 3" 

 quam 4"" sat longiori. Long, ij-i^, lat. 34-3i lines. 



Femina quam mas paullo magis convexa. 



This species is superficially very much like /'. serpitjinosa, Er., 

 from Avhich it differs i te?- alia by its larger size, evidently greater 



