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the elytra (tending to I'un together here and there into transverse 

 ridges on the laterally declivous portions) are suggestive of P. 

 im,pressa, Chp., from which, however, the present species differs 

 iyiter alia by its much less convexity, its elytra at their highest 

 much further from their base, and the much less strongly elevated 

 verrucpe and ridges of the elytra. The intermediate verrucas of 

 the prothorax are fairly well-defined. 



Victoria ; Black Spur : also from the Blue Mountains (Mr. 

 Masters). 



P. EX.SUL, sp.nov. 



(J. Late ovata, sat convexa, altitudine majori (a latere visa) 

 contra elytrorum marginem medium posita; sat nitida; 

 picea, rufo-variegata (pr^esertim in capite fere toto, in 

 prothoracis lateribus, in elytrorum marginibus et maculis 

 indistinctis nonnullis, in antennarum basi, et in abdominis 

 lateribus); capite crebre aspere punctulato; prothorace quam 

 longiori ut fere 24 ad 1 latiori, ab apice ad medium dilatato, 

 pone apicem transversim vix perspicue impresso, crebre minus 

 subtiliter (ad latei'a sat grosse) punctulato, lateribus sat 

 arcuatis distincte sat anguste deplanatis, angulis posticis 

 obtusis ; scutello subtiliter punctulato^ elj^tr-is sub callum 

 humeralem distincte depressis, pone basin subrotundatim 

 impressis, crebre sat subtiliter subseriatim (ad latera paullo 

 minus, postice paullo magis, subtiliter) punctulatis, 

 verrucis nonnullis vix perspicuis subseriatim instructis, inter- 

 stitiis leviter (apicem versus magis perspicue) rugulosis, parte 

 mai'ginali modice lata a disco (per sulculum ante medium late 

 interruptum pone medium sat profundum) bene divisa, calli 

 humeralis margine interno a sutura quam ab elytrorum 

 margine laterali paullo magis distanti j segmento ventrali 

 basali sparsius subfortiter punctulato. Long. 3|^, lat. 3 lines. 

 Easily distinguishable among its near allies by the fine 

 puncturation of its elytra (the verrucse of which need looking for) in 

 combination with the subquadrate prothorax (which is at its 

 widest at the middle). 



N.S. Wales; Richmond R. district, I believe. 



