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spicuously and obtusely produced over and beyond the pygidium, 

 the surface has oblong ocellate punctures at and near the base 

 which are evanescent beforethe apex, apex smooth ; the pygidium is 

 verticle and feebly convex, obscurely and sparsely punctured, apex 

 semicircular and very finely marginate; the prosternum (fîg. 2) is 

 narrow, bistriate, the striée widen out a little at the 

 base and are parallel to each other along the keel and 

 anteriorly widen out rather abruptly forming, with 

 the suture of the anterior lobe as a base, a triangular 

 enclosure; the mesosternum is acutely produced in 

 front, with a strong sinuous stria on either side, also 

 a transverse stria which is feebly bowed towards the prosternum, 

 the suture is visible close behind the transverse stria and there is 

 a médian Une down the metasternum; the metasternum has a 

 latéral sulcus and at each side near the base are large scattered 

 punctures ; the fîrst segment has a line of punctures on the ante- 

 rior edge and on the latéral margins. The tibiae and tarsi are 

 formed exactly like those of P. testudo Gerst. and P. meri- 

 dianus Lew. 



Eab. : Mandar, Bengale (Père Cardon, 1891). 



The figures for this species hâve been kindly drawn by M. G. Se- 

 verin to whom I hâve much pleasure in dedicating the species. 



In several of the gênera of Histeridse we hâve round, oval and 

 oblong species and I hâve no doubt at this moment from the shape 

 of the sterna and the legs and tarsi that the présent species 

 is rightly (notwithstanding its extraordinary form) assigned to 

 Gerstâcker's genus. 



