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baud vel vix sequentibus longiore ; capitulo magno, abrupto, parum 

 distincte annulate. Pedes ad basin fere ut in Rhyncolo, sed intermedii 

 sensim magis distantes (sc. antici parum evidenter separati, posteriores 

 multo magis et ssepe subsequaliter remoti) ; tibiis ad angulum internum 

 in spinulam parvam productis ; tarsis art°- 1™°- vel baud vel vix elongate, 

 otio. paulo latiore sed plerisque fere simplici, rarius sub-bilobo. 



(Genus rostro antennisque longiusculis, graciusculis, capituloque 

 abrupto cum Phlceophago parum congruens ; sed corpore ssepius majore 

 angustiore et minus convexo, rostro, prothorace metasternoque longiori- 

 bus, scutello conspicuo, funiculi art°- 2^'^- necnon tarsorum 1™°- breviori- 

 bus, coxis anterioribus latius separatis, tibiisque ad angulum internum in 

 spinulam evidenter productis. A Rhyncolo prsecipue differt corpore 

 majore, rostro antennisque longioribus gracilioribus, his in medio illius 

 insertis, capitulo majore ac magis abrupto, oculis minus prominentibus 

 ac sjepius in fronte sensim magis approximatis, metasterno paulo magis 

 elongato, coxisque intermediis sensim magis distantibus). 



Hab. Ins. Japonicas, Malayenses, Indiam, Nov. Zealand., et cset. 



941. P. COrvinum, WolL; Gen. Cosson., p. 613. P. parallelo- 

 fusiforine, angustulum, subcylindricum, convexiusculum, nitidum, atrum; 



rostro longiusculo, parallelo, minute et parce punctulato ; oculis parvis, 

 prominulis ; prothorace (pone medium latitudine elytrorum) triangulari- 

 ovato, antice leviter constricto, paulo profundis tamen leviter punctulato; 

 elytris subcylindricis, punctato-, aut fere subcrenato-striatis, interstitiis 

 subconvexis, subrugulosis ac minutissime (vix perspicue), parcissimeque 

 punctulatis ; antennis subgracilibus, rufo-piceis, capitulo sub-obscuriore ; 

 pedibiis subgracilibus, piceis. Subtus remote et leviter punctulatum. 



Var. B. (affine). — Elytrorum interstitiis vix perspicue punctulatis, 

 striis postice sublevius impressis. 



Long. Corp., lin. 2 J. 



Habitat Novam Zealandiam, a DD. Fry et Janson communicatum. 



(Obs. — Species P. morw, in ins. Ceylon degenti, valde afifinis, sed 

 magis parallelum, aut minus fusiforme, prothorace paululum minus 

 elongato minusque conico, sc. pone medium evidenter magis rotundato ; 

 elytris magis parallelis, ad apicem ipsissimum magis integris, minus 

 profunde, pr^esertim postice, striatis, interstitiis minus convexis minutius- 

 que punctulatis ; pedibusque sensim minus incrassatis). 



942. P. COnstrictiCOllG, ?/.^. ^^^ofa shining variable chestnut 

 colour, in one example pale, in the second reddish, and the third of a 

 somewhat pitchy hue, with the legs and antennae red. 



The scape of the latter is short, not much more than half the length 

 of the funiculus. The rostrum is rather narrow, somewhat similar to 

 that of P. corvinum, very slightly narrowed behind, finely punctured, 

 distinctly marked off from the head, there being an abrupt transverse 

 impression close to the eyes, and with the antennal insertion a little in 

 front of the middle. The eyes are moderate, rather prominent, and 

 situated just at the sides of the base of the rostrum. The prothorax is 

 longer than broad, rounded laterally, and a good deal narrowed and 

 constricted anteriorly, the contraction extending across the thorax as a 



