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nente. Oculi ovati, latérales. Antennse unie médium rostri insertœ, scapo 

 oculi médium attingente ; funiculo 7 articulato, articula basait pyriformi, 

 secundo longiore, obconico, cœteris modice transversis ; clava magna, funi- 

 culo non longiore. Prolhorax conicus, apice truncatus. Scutellum magnum 

 triangutare. Elyira triangularia, anlice elevato-truncala, humeris pro- 

 ductis. Pedes longiores, œquales, coxœ anlicee contiguse, intermediœ valde 

 distantes, posticœ approximatœ, femoribus subclavatis, tibiis uncinatis, 

 tarsis articulis 2 basaiibus parvis, triangularibus, tertio multo latiorc et 

 profunde bilobo, unguiculis parvis, liberis. 



This lias precisely the habit of Metatyges, from vvhich, however, it is 

 strongly separated by Ihe above cliaracters. The eyes are, it may be 

 remarked, ralher more frontal, and consequenlly more approximate in 

 front. There is a sort of saccharine exudalion on the spécimen 1 liave 

 selected as the type, from which the other is entirely free. 



1. P. PYRAMiDALis Pasc, Joum. of. Ent., II, Zi25, pi. 17, fig. 10. — 

 Long. 6 à 9 mill. — Fuscus, albido- {vel griseo-) pubcscens ; capite leviter 

 punciato, mcdio rostroque linca impressa; prothorace lateriter albescente 

 vel dilutiore ; scutello fusco, medio pallidiore ; elylris subcostatis, basi 

 costis magis elevalis ; corpore infra pedibusque griseo-pubescentibus. 



Iles Fidji (Pascoe). 



2. P. CONSPIGILLATDS Faimi., Pet. Nouv. enlom., 1877, 280. — Long. 

 cum rostro 10 mill. — Brcvis, crassus, valdc conveœus, fuscus, subopacus, 

 pilis cincrcis adpressis obsiius, pedibus antennisquc paulo picescentibus ; 

 capite tcnuiter punciato, sianmo breviter sulcato, rostro crasso, parallclo, 

 apice picescente, sublœvi, antennarum clava dense cinerco-scricante ; pro- 

 thorace elytris fere dimidio angustiore, breviter conico, anlice truncato, 

 basi longitudine fere duplo latiore, tenuissime sat dense punctulato, dorso 

 inequalij lateribus subcompresso ; scutello magno , triangulari-ovato , 

 dense punctulato; elytris hrcvibus, latitudine puulo longioribus, valde 

 convexis, basi transversim abrupte dcclivibus, humeris prominentibus, 

 angulatim rotundatis, post mcdium sat rapide angustatis, apice separatim 

 rotundatis, late punctato-striatis, striis parum profundis punctis magnis, 

 transversis, intrrvallis irregulariter transversim plicatulis, post callwn 

 posticum impressis, humeris sub calto obliquis, 



Patria ignota. 



