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Head iinpunctate, with a central fovea, greenish, palpi 

 robust, antennae extending just beyond the middle of the elytra, 

 flavous, the third Joint distinctly longer tlian the fourth; the 

 lattev and the following two joints of some^vhat triangulär shape, 

 the seventh of deeply excavate or crescent shape, black, the 

 next joints elongate, terminal one black: thorax about one half 

 broader than long, the lateral margins slightly narrowed at the 

 base, feebly rounded anteriorly, the anterior angles slightly 

 thickened, the surface impunctate, deeply transversely sulcate, 

 the sulcus not extending to the margins, scutellum impunctate; 

 elvtra much wider at the base than the thorax, the basal portion 

 distinctly raised, the surface nearly impunctate, except below the 

 base and near the suture, with traces of costae near the apex; 

 below greenish, clothed with yellowish pubescence, the abdomen 

 dosely punctured, the last segment of the male with an incision 

 at each side, the median lobe deeply concave; legs flavous, the 

 posterior tibiae widened at the apex and prolonged into a short 

 blunt process; the metatarsus as long as the following joints 

 together. 



Barombi. 



Two other African species of similar coloration have been 

 discribed, P. africana Duviv. and P. dimidiaticornis Jac. Of 

 these the first named has dififerently coloured antennae and a 

 distinct punctuation of the thorax and elytra; to judge by the 

 .tructure of the tibiae Duvivier's species was described from male 

 specimens and differs therefore also by the structure of the 

 antennae which are normal in shape; F. dimidiaticornis. of 

 which the male was not known by me has closely and rather 

 strongly punctured elytra, besides differently coloured antennae; 

 the female of the present species agrees entirely in the sculpture 

 of the Upper surface with the male, but the antennae are fulvous as 

 far as the tirst eight joints (the others are wanting) and the thn-d 

 and fouvth joints are equal; the thorax is rather more transverse 

 and the last abdominal segment is almost straight at the middle. 



Stett. entomol. Zeit. 1903. 



