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border. The thorax is obscurely red^ witli reddish pubes- 

 cence. On comparison of these specimens with the types, 

 and with a ? niKloubtedly rubricoUis, Lew., in the British 

 Museum {Stnndinger, 1898), I consider that the hitter is 

 merely a small colour-variety of laticoUis, Lew. 



P. higonite, Lew., is very doubtfully specifically distinct 

 from P.japonica, Heyd. 



P. jJuvilabris, sp. n. — The single ^ specimen was included 

 by .Mr. Lewis with P. aurita. Lew., which at first sijiht it 

 resembles. The vertex of the licad is, as it v.ere, pressed 

 forwards so as to overhang the transverse excavation, as in 

 atrlpennis, Lew., and episcopalis, Lew, ; but in jlav'ilubris 

 the overhanging edge is rounded in front instead of being 

 truncate. The lower part of the face is yellow, in strong 

 contrast to the black upper part of the head ; the palpi and 

 legs are piceons. The thorax is black, with the scutelluni 

 and elytra fulv.)us. 



Long. 84 mm, 



Hab. Japan (no exact locality given). 



These three species — atripennis, Lew., episcopa/is, Lew., 

 and flavilabris, mihi — form one of the most sharply marked 

 nataial groups of the genus, closely allied to japonica, Heyd. ; 

 l)nt it is purely accidental that they have come together in 

 the present scheme of tabulation ; nigrlco/or, Pic, belongs to 

 a very different group. 



P. nigricolor , Pic, is another species described from the 

 2 only. A ^ i'l ^^'C Fry Collection (Perak, Doheriy) has 

 the head rather feebly impressed between the eyes. Tlie 

 basal joint of the antennae is elongate, feebly incrassate, the 

 second not dentate within, joints 3-10 expanded, serrate- 

 pectinate, with the branches very long and fine. 



P. ruficoUis, Hlr., cannot be maintained as specifically 

 distinct from clohi-rtyK V\c. The red colour at the base of 

 the elytra of the latter is not constant, and the only satis- 

 factory difference appears to be in the prosternum, which is 

 black in dohertyi and yellow in rvficollis. X (^ oi rufi- 

 coUis in the collection of Mr. G. E. Bryant, from Sclabin- 

 tanah, Java, 2. iv. 09, has the head transversely impressed 

 between the eyes, almost excavate, the posterior ridge with a 

 sharp iii\^e, tlie anterior rounded, trigibbous. The antentue 

 have the basal joint strongly incrassate, subpyriform, the 

 second dentate within ; joints 3-10 with a long slender 

 hranch. 



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