BY REV. T. BLACKBURN. 685 



A species quite capal:)le of being confused with several others, 

 especially P. o-K.yulosior and P. stigma. From both these it may 

 be at once distinguished by the evidently more conspicuous and 

 regularly seriate puncturation of its elytra, from the former also 

 by its much narrower form and strongly rugulose scutellum, and 

 fi'om the latter also by its rugulose scutellum and the entire 

 absence of any blackish patch on the sutural region. 



S. Australia, near Adelaide. 



P. Leai, sp.nov. 



(J. Ovata; modice lata; sat convexa, altitudine majori (a latere 

 visa) contra vel fere ante elytrorum marginem medium posita; 

 sat nitida; subtus piceo- rufoque-variegata; supra testaceo- 

 brunnea, prothoracis maculis 4 parvis (his transversim in 

 disco dispositis) et elytrorum verrucis obscuris, an tennis rufis 

 apicem versus piceis, pedibus piceis plus minusve rufo-varie- 

 gatis; capite crebrius minus subtiliter punctulato; pi'othorace 

 quam longiori ut 2|^ ad 1 latiori, ab apice sat longe ultra 

 medium dilatato, pone apicem transversim leviter impresso, 

 subtilius sat sparsim (ad latera grossius nee confluenter) 

 punctulato, lateribus sat arcuatis nullo modo deplanatis, 

 angulis posticis rotundatis; scutello sparsissime punctulato; 

 elytris sub callum humeralem haud depressis, pone basin 

 transversim impressis, fortius minus crebre 'subseriatim (ad 

 latera vix magis, postice vix minus, fortiter) punctulatis, 

 verrucis parvis sat numerosis sat regulariter seriatim 

 instructis, interstitiis haud rugulosis, parte marginali sat 

 lata a disco vix perspicue (apicem versus magis distincte) 

 divisa, calli humeralis margine interno a sutura quam ab 

 elytrorum margine laterali sat multo magis distanti; segmento 

 ventrali basali sparsim subtiliter punctulato. Long. 3^, 

 lat. 2^ lines. 



This species is rather 'closely allied to P. interioris, which it 

 greatly resembles in markings and colour except in the underside 

 being much darker and the patches of dark colour on the elytra 



