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P. galactinus, Mieb.—Head and pronotum black, very 
shining, with a few very remote, long, erect, fine hairs ; 
antennz piceous, second joint at the apex, and third and 
fourth darker, these latter much thinner than the 
second, each about three-quarters its length; pronotum 
at the base about once and a half as broad as long, with the 
sides rounded in front, thence very slightly sinuate to the 
posterior angles, base shallowly sinuate, disc very shining 
and polished in front, slightly depressed and punctured 
behind ; scutellum very shining, the apical half depressed, 
and the extreme apex transversely rugose ; elytra yellowish- 
white, somewhat dull, and very shallowly and finely punc- 
tured, and clothed with exceedingly short pale pubescence ; 
membrane milky-white, shining; legs testaceous, the 
femora darker, tibiz with rather long bristles; canal of 
the odoriferous sac very long and curved, almost reaching to 
the apex of the mesosternum. 
L. 24-2? mm. 
Often found commonly in hot-beds, ete., Reigate, Woking ; 
Bath, Blathwayt; Bishops Teignton, Devon, Marshall; 
Ewhurst, Butler ; Edgbaston, Knowle, Blatch ; Canning 
Town, Dulwich, and Cardiff, Billups; Glanvilles Wootton, 
Dale. 
P. cursitans, /al/.—Rather smaller than galactinus, 
and proportionately wider; pronotum distinctly shorter 
and wider, more rounded in front behind the anterior 
collar; the elytra are darker, and more distinctly pubescent, 
the whole of the embolium and cuneus, and the clavus and 
apex of the corium more or less pitchy brown, and more 
strongly punctured; in the undeveloped form the elytra 
are short and testaceous, not quite twice as long as the 
scutellum, round at their apices ; legs testaceous, the femora 
pitchy brown, tibize spinose; canal of the odoriferous sac 
rather more abruptly angulated than in galactinus, and 
abbreviated, so that it does not extend nearly so far as the 
margin of the mesosternum. 
