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Female. Pale testaceous, the head and apex of the elytra in- 

 f uscate. Prothorax with a narrow oblong patch of punctures round 

 the sulcus, a little stronger in front, remainder of surface finely 

 reticulate and feebly punctate. Elytral rows of punctures very 

 feeble, 3rd interstice granulate at the base ; apical depression 

 lunate, rounded and not sulcate above, the postero-lateral angles 

 acute, the inferior margin concave, much longer than the sutui-al 

 margin, the fundus subconcave, rugulose and shortly hairy. 



Hah. Sumatra, from tobacco (Grouvelle). 



In spite of the examples having been found in tobacco- 

 bales in Paris, there can be no question as to the original 

 locality of this little species, one of the smallest of the 

 subfamily. The male is distinguished from P. forjicuJa 

 and allied species by its size, extreme tenuity, and the 

 deep apical emargination, which is narrowed at its mouth 

 by the approximation of the postero-lateral angles. The 

 female resembles that of P. pallidus, Chap., but is much 

 more attenuated, and can be separated by the frontal 

 sculpture. 



Scaly to -platypus (Teeniocerus) raja. 

 Blandf. Tr. Ent. Soc, 1893, p. 440. 



I have had the opportunity of examining a second 

 specimen of the male from the Hope Collection. The ex- 

 ample is brownish-black, and is less pilose than the type, 

 especially on the head, a distinction which may however 

 depend on differences in the length of life of the speci- 

 mens; it has the elytral interstices more distinctly 

 alternate on the declivity, the second being impressed. 

 The characteristic hairs round the spines are present. 

 I have been able to examine the prosternum, which 

 differs decidedly from that of 8. mikado, in the chiti- 

 nous appendages of the prosternal organ. These instead 

 of being incurved are widely divaricate, straight, and 

 either abruptly bent inwards at the tip or furnished on 

 the inner side with a tooth, like the bai'b of a fish- 

 hook. 



If, as is probable, this curious genus is rich in species, 

 it is evident that the structure of this male organ of 

 unknown function is likely to furnish differential charac- 

 ters of great value, and its careful examination is there- 

 fore indispensable. 



