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flavus : corpore subtus nigro ; pedibus piceis, tarsis rufis; antennis 
rufis. 
Long. corp. lin. 3; lat. lin. 2. 
Nearly related in pattern to P. modesta. Unfortunately I 
have some doubt whether the thorax of the example before me 
is not borrowed from some other insect! It is rather smaller in 
proportion than those of other species. 
A single example, from the collection of Mr. Thomson, is in 
my cabinet, from South Africa. 
27. P. clathrata, De}. Cat., n. sp. 
P. ovalis, punctato-striata, nigra, rufo maculata, nitida; capite nigro; 
thorace rotundato (lateribus haud parallelis, tenuiter marginatis), 
punctato (ad latera crebrius et fortiter), nigro ; scutello leevi, nigro ; 
elytris sat rotundatis, punctato-striatis (punctis distinctis, apicem 
versus obsoletis), nigris, maculis quibusdam rufis,—una scutellaris, 
inter strias 1. et 6., transversa (aut aliquando minuta), altera media, 
transversa, inter strias 2. et 9., ineequalis; duze alize postmedie, 
magne, et ad apicem et marginem affluentes, vel minute et insu- 
lares ; margo quoque flavus : corpore subtus nigro ; pedibus nigris, 
tarsis pallidis ; antennis rufo-fuscis, ad basin rufis. 
Long. corp. lin. 23-3; lat. lin. 14-2. 
A species variable both in size and colour; the pattern, how- 
ever, is sufficiently constant to enable us to separate and limit 
the species: the humeral and also the apical markings vary 
considerably in form and size—never, however, the medial, which 
is transverse and irregular; the margin also is in all cases 
flavous. 
In the cabinets of Mr. Baly, Mr. Wilson Saunders, and the 
‘Rev. H. Clark. 
28. P. Hebe, n. sp. 
P. ovalis, penitus rotundata, punctato-striata, rufa, maculis nigris, 
nitida ; capite sparsim punctulato, nigro; thorace lateribus sub- 
parallelis, antice rotundatis, leviter marginatis, elytris haud mul- 
tum angustiore, in disco leviter, ad latera forte punctato, eenec- 
nigro; scutello subcordiformi, levi, nigro ; elytris sat latis, punc- 
tato-striatis (punctis distinctis, crebris, ordinatis), rufis, vittis 3 
transversis (e maculis distinctis compositis), eneo-nigris,—prima 
juxta (sed haud attingens) basin, maculas tres continet (1™™ inter 
strias 2. et 2. subcircularem ; 2” inter strias 4. et 5.—heec in vit- 
tam 24™ confluit ; 34®™ inter strias 6. et 10. irregularem, obliquam); 
secunda vitta media maculas tres quoque continet (1™™ inter su- 
turam et striam 3., 2°” inter strias 4. et 5.—heec in vittam basalem 
confluit,—3"™ inter strias 6. et 7.) ; tertia vitta postmedia, heec vel 
quatuor maculas continet vel transversa vitta est a sutura ad mar- 
ginem, juxta apicem etiam est macula subcircularis insularis; sutura 
quoque nigra : corpore subtus, pedibus et, ut credo, antennis nigris. 
Long. corp. lin. 24; lat. lin. 12. 
