548 Mr. C. O. Waterhouse's Notes, &^c. 



of punctures, the punctures moderately strong and well 

 separated from each other, all the strise become obsolete 

 at the apex. The underside is shining black, the pro- 

 sternum is compressed into a somewhat sharp keel an- 

 teriorly, strongly punctured ; the metasternum is sparingly 

 but strongly punctured anteriorly, nearly smooth in the 

 middle. Abdomen thickly and finely punctured. The 

 tarsi are pitchy, densely clothed beneath Avith ochreous 

 hair. 



Allied to P. gibbosus, Westw., but more elongate, &c. 



//aZ». — Austraha. ColL Brit. Mus. 



