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Savijjuy's Descrii)lion de l'Ej^ypte; the authors, how- 

 ever, say nothing about the very conspicuous pale 

 facial shield which is undoubtedly one of the charac- 

 ters of the species. I do not think that Saussure was 

 right when he synonymizcd his syriaca with africana; 

 I his latter species, as I mulerstand it, is a much lighter 

 coloured insect with immaculate and somewhat longer 

 elytra and unicolorous pronotum. P. syriaca has the 

 pronotum bordered with yellowish anteriorly and the 

 head completely hidden as it is in aeqypiiaca, but it 

 posesses an abundant) pubescence and a lobe on the 

 inferior side of slytra as in africana. One male of this 

 species from Jerusalem in the Paris Museum collec- 

 tion is labelled (by whom?) as P. conspcrsa Br. 



Var. UMCOLOR, Chopard, A^ Tar. — Jerusalem, 

 I May 1922, I cf. — Quite similar to the type, but the 

 elytra of a dark uniform coloration as in acgyptiaca. 

 Vn/'. î^ -- Massada, 20 May 1923, i cf . — This small 

 specimen belongs perhaps to an undescribed species. 

 It differs fi'om the preceeding one in tbe small size, 

 concolorous facial shield and the face wholly blackish. 

 The armature of legs is almost exactly the same as in 

 syriaca: the iiitermediate tibiae armed, apart from 

 seven apical spins, by seven spines above (2 ext., 2 

 med., 3 int.) and two spines beneath; posterior tibiae 

 with ten spines above (3 ext., 3 med., 3 int.) and five 

 beneath (3 ext.. 2 int.); thd only difference consists 

 in the presence of four inferior spines on the hind 

 tibiae (2 on each margin). Length of body i4 mm.; 

 pronotum 5 mm.; width of pronotum 7 mm.; elytra 

 i5 mm. I hesitate to describe a new species after this 

 single specimen." (L, Chopard), 



