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medium clilatato, pone apicem traiisversim distincte im2:)res.so, 

 crebre aspere minus for titer (ad latera grosse nee vel vix 

 confiuenter) punctulato, lateribus fortiter arcuatis nullo modo 

 deplanatis, angulis posticis nuUis; scutello sat opaco, dupli- 

 citer (sparsim fortius et confertim sxibtiliter) punctulato; 

 elytris sat distincte sub callum humeralem depressis (et pone 

 basin transversim impressis), crebre fortius subseriatim (ad 

 latera multo magis grosse, postice magis crebre magis sub- 

 tiliter) punctulatis, verrucis nonnullis parvis minus distinctis 

 confuse instructis, interstitiis antice modice (postice crebre 

 sat aspere) rugulosis, parte marginal! sat angusta a disco (per 

 sulculum antemedium anguste interruptum) bene divisa, calli 

 liumeralis margine interno a sutura quam ab elytrorum 

 margine lateral! vix multo magis distant!; segmento ventral! 

 basal! sat sparsim subfortiter punctvilato. 

 Mas quam femina nonnihil magis depre.ssus, hujus antennis 



paullo minus elongatis. Long. 34-44, lat. 2|-34 lines. 

 Resembles P. sordida superficially but differs from it by a multi- 

 tude of characters, conspicuous among which are its distinctly 

 more convex form, more transverse differently shaped prothorax, 

 scutellum so closely punctulate as to be subopaque, and humeral 

 callus distinctly more distant from the lateral mai^gin of the 

 elytra. 



Also near punctata, Marsh., but of considerably more depressed 

 form. 



S. Australia; on the hills near Adelaide, etc.; also Kangaroo 

 Island. 



P. ViCTORiyE, sp nov. 



9. /'*. allicokii simillima; subtus nigra, pedibus obscuris, pro- 

 thorace paullo magis crebre punctulato; scutello fere la-vi; 

 elytris ad latera quam in disco vix magis fortiter punctulatis; 

 calli humeralis margine interno a sutura quam ab elytrorum 

 margine lateral! multo magis distant!; cetera ut F. alticola. 

 Long. 3t, lat. 24 lines. 

 Another species very close to /'. ahicola but differing from it 

 in the evidently closer puncturation of its prothorax; the extremely 



