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P. marginatus, Guer. A wider, more depressed, and more 
fragile-looking species than either of the preeeding. I have 
seen only two examples of it, and, therefore, cannot say much 
about its variability. In both of these there is a large, somewhat 
oval spot of pale testaceous colour on either side of the prothorax, 
one side of either spot (as viewed from above) placed so close 
to the side of the prothorax as almost (but not quite) to form the 
Jateral margin. The shoulders and apex of the elytra in both 
are testaceous. In one of them the apical colour runs up the 
suture and lateral margin only for a short distance ; in the other 
it extends forward to the shoulders on the lateral margin, and 
almost to the base on the suture. The hind tarsi are coloured 
as in lwetwosus, but the pale colouring is only at the extreme 
base. The prothorax can be called cordiform even less decidedly 
than that ot hemorrhoidalis, the greater part of the sides being 
only very feebly rounded, and their hinder sinuation being only 
close to the base. The antenne are like those of Juctzosws. 
P. elegantulus, sp. nov. Mas. EHlongatus, gracilis ; colore pro- 
babiliter variabilis, ‘exempto typieo nigro rufo-notato [se. 
prothorace (vitta mediana et macula parva utrinque posita 
exceptis) elytris (vittis angustis 3 exceptis) et antennarum 
articulis 8° fere toto 9° que ad basin, rufis} ; capite subtilius 
minus crebre punctulato; antennarum articulis 3°—7° 
leviter dilatatis (3° quam 1° parum latiori, ceteris gradatim 
angustioribus, 7° quam 8" parum latiori) ; prothorace nitido, 
leviter cordiformi, quam latiori sat longiori, in medio 
longitudinaliter leviter obtuse elevato, utrinque late minus 
profunde impresso ; elytris confertim subtiliter subaspere 
punctulatis pubescentibus, costis 4 latis obtusis discoidalibus 
instructis. Long., 34 ].; lat.. £1. 
Fem. latet. 
Ditters from all the other Psewdolyci known to me by the 
sculpture of its prothorax ; also differs from hemorrhoidalis and 
luctuosus, pnd probably also from marginatus (of which I have 
not seen a male) in the dilatation of the intermediate joints of 
the antenne being very feeble in the male. Its nearest ally 
seems to be the species I have called hemoptera, from which it 
differs, inter alia, by its much less cordiform more nitid less 
closely punctulate and very differently coloured prothorax 
(which, moreover, has not a well-defined median carina), by the 
much greater width of the elevated lines on its elytra, and by 
its shorter head. 
Victoria. 
P. hemopterus, Guer. The insect that I believe to be the 
original of this species is somewhat common in the mountainou> 
