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and a single sutural stria. In the species that forms the sub- 

 ject of this note the rows of punctures (besides that in the 

 strongly marked sutural stria) are eight in number on each 

 elytron, and are placed in very obsolete striae, running in pairs, 

 the interval between the tw^o of each pair being slightly con- 

 vex, narrow, and scarcely punctulate, while the intervals 

 between the pairs are wide, flat, and distinctly punctured. 

 Germar, moreover, gives no information regarding the propy- 

 gidium and pygidium of his insect. In the specimens before 

 me the former is finely and closely punctured, the latter 

 coarsely and sparingly, but not deeply ; and both are densely 

 clothed with long hairs. The great width and strong external 

 bidentation of the anterior tibiae, and the peculiar structure of 

 the antennae, together with the long dense villosity of the 

 underside and legs are well marked characters mentioned by 

 Oermar, the presence of which in the specimens before me 

 seem to justify their identification with P. Tasmanica. more 

 especially as I know that one (at least) of them was taken in 

 the immediate vicinity of the place where most of the species 

 described by Grermar were collected. 



Assuming the correctness of this identification, I think that 

 this insect must be regarded as the type of a distinct genus, 

 for which, of course, Germar's name Facliygasira must be used. 

 Burmeister assigns the insect to Haplonycha. According to 

 Schaum, Germar used the name Facliygastra by accident for 

 Frochehjna^ to which genus however that great authority, 

 M Lacordaire, greatly doubts its appertaining. Having dis- 

 sected a specimen, I am able to say that it cannot be referred 

 either to Haplonyclia or ProcJielyna, the six- jointed club of the 

 antennae (in one sex at least) and the peculiar labrum and 

 front tibiae forbidding its association with the species for which 

 M. Blanchard founded Haplonycha, while the toothed maxillae 

 separate it widely ivomProclielyna. This last named character 

 seems inconsistent with any close relationship to the insects 

 associated by Dr. Sharp under the name Systellopides, to which, 

 nevertheless, I believe it in reality allied. [It is worthy of 

 note that in one genus of that group, Systellopus, the learned 

 author meutions the presence on the maxilla of a "small ob- 

 scure black tubercle or tooth."] In one of the specimens 

 before me the apical ventral segment is evidently longer than 

 in the other specimens, from which I conclude that both sexes 

 are represented in this short series, and that the differences 

 between them are very slight. The following characters no 

 doubt include some that may be considered generic ; clypeus 

 very strongly concave, separated from the forehead by an 

 almost straight impressed suture ; its outline nearly semi- 

 circular, its margin scarcely elevated close to the forehead, but 



