iiiicJiardcterked PJii/tojtJinj/d. 47 



punctato ; elytris punctato-striatis, ad margineiii exterioreui et ad 

 apiceni confuse punctatis, obscure fulvis, sutiira nuxrgineque 

 exteriori piceis, fascia lata basali, vitta brevi humerali punctoque 

 ])rope suturam fulvis oniata, maculisque duabus, una prope 

 medium, altera apicem versus positis, nigro-piceis ; clypeo 5-an- 

 gulo, latitudine longiori ; antennis modice robustis, articulis 4 to. 

 et 5 to. inter se a^qualibus, utrisque .3 tio. fere duplo longioribus. 

 Long. 5 lin. 



Hab. Western Australia ; two males in my own collection 

 brought over by Mr. Dulioulay. 



Very nearly allied to P. Eiichmnii, Lac, both in coloration 

 and in sculpture, it may however be at once known by the follow- 

 ing distinctive characters. The clypeus, which in P. Erichsonii 

 is as broad as, or even slightly broader than long, is in the present 

 species distinctly elongate ; the antennte are more robust, the 

 third and following joints being distinctly flattened, the third is 

 scarcely more than half the length of the fourth and fifth, these 

 joints being of nearly equal length — in P. Er/'cJisoni/ the third 

 joint is longer, and the third, fourth, and fifth gradually increase 

 in length ; the thorax in the jn-esent species is shorter, its liroad- 

 est portion being nearer the a])ex than in the older insect. 



Poll/opt il/i>i paclijitoldes, ii. sp. 



Elongatus, sub-cylindricus, nigro-piceus, nitidus, femoribus 

 basi tiltiisque (his apice exceptis) pallide rufo-piceis ; elytris 

 fulvis, utris(pie limbo maculisqiie duabus, prope marginem latera- 

 lem positis, nigris. Long. 4| lin. 



Hab. AVestern Australia ; collected by Mr. Duboiday. 



Head rugose, sparingly clothed with adpressed whitish hairs ; 

 clypeus elongate, pentagonal, its apex wedge-shaped, extending 

 upwards between the encarpse ; labrum, anterior edge of clypeus, 

 apex of jaws and the palpi pieeous ; antenna; nearly equal to 

 the body in length, second joint very short, third and fourth 

 each three times the length of the second, equal, second, third, 

 and fourth joint stained with pieeous. Thorax about a third 

 longer than broad, cylindrical, slightly depressed on either side 

 the disk, sides constri(;ted just Ijehind the middle ; surface rugose, 

 coarsely punctured, sparingly clothed with adpressed whitish hairs. 

 Elytra much broader at the base than the thorax, gradually atten- 

 uated to the apex, coarsely punctured, shining, rugose. 



PobjoptUuH Pascoel, it. sp, 



Man. Elongatus, angustatus, sub-cylindricus, piceus, nitidus, 

 thorace sub-cordato, ante basin ]iaullo constricto, distincte j)unc- 



