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the other is more nearly allied to P. dimidinta, Mars. (L'Abeille, xiv, 

 p. 27), from Lebanon, and is described below under the name of P. 

 Oherthuri. P. hadia (sericaria) is recorded by Jaequelin-Duval from 

 the] Pyrenees-orientales (G-en. Col., iii, p. 409), and is figured by 

 him (op. cit., t. 91, fig. 452) under the name of P. sericea. Pentaria 

 has hitherto contained but a single European (and Algerian) species ; 

 in the Southern United States, Mexico, and Guatemala it almost 

 replaces Anaspis. The bilobed penultimate joint of the anterior tarsi 

 separates it easily from the other genera of the Anaspides, the 

 American DicJidla excepted ; in Cyrtanaspis, Anaspis (including the 

 various subgenera formed at its expense), and Naucles, this joint is 

 quite small and the third is bilobed. Pentaria also has the hind tibiae 

 longer and more slender than in Anaspis and its allies. It is probable 

 that other European species will yet be discovered. 



Pentaeia Obeethtjei, n. sp. 



Testaceous, very finely sericeous-pubescent ; the elytra with a rather broad 

 post-median fascia, the apex and suture piceous, the base slightly infuscate ; the eyes 

 black ; the legs, antennae and palpi entirely testaceous ; beneath testaceous, the 

 venter and middle of the breast infuscate. Antennae moderately long, joints 3 — 6 

 slender, 3 and 4 about twice as long as broad, 5 and 6 a little shorter, 7 — 11 

 thickened, 7 and 8 subequal, longer and stouter than 6, 9 and 10 as broad as long, 

 11 ovate and nearly twice as long as 10 ; pro thorax much broader than long, the 

 sides rounded and converging in front, straight behind, the hind angles rectangular ; 

 elytra moderately convex, subparallel in their basal half, gradually narrowing beyond ; 

 anterior tarsi long and slender, the 4th joint bilobed, and as wide as the 3rd ; hind 

 tibiae slender, longer than the two basal joints of the hind tarsi united. 



Far.— The elytra testaceous. Length, 2| mm. 



Hah. : Millas, Pyrenees-orientales. 



Two examples, one of the type and one of the variety, probably 

 both females. Easily separable from P. hadia by the much more 

 slender, entirely testaceous antennae : in P. hadia joints 6 — 11 are 

 infuscate and stout, 8 — 10 strongly transverse ; in P. Oherthilri the 

 sixth joint is not stouter than the fifth, and joints 7 — 11 only are 

 moderately thickened, 9 and 10 being as long as broad. In the typical 

 form of P. Ohertlmri the markings partly enclose two spots of the 

 ground colour on each elytron, one, very large and oblong, extending 

 from the humerus to the middle, the other, much smaller, a little before 

 the apex. In its elytral markings P. Oherthiiri resembles the Gua- 

 temalan P. quadriguttata, Champ. ; but the latter has the posterior spot 

 more distant from the apex. 



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