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interiore inter strias 3. et 6. subtriangulari, exteriore inter striam 7. 

 et marginem ; margo ipse ab humeris ad apicem flavescit ; corpore 

 Bubtus, pedibus antennisque nigris. 

 Long. Corp. 2| lin., lat. 2 lin. 



The above diagnosis will separate this species from aU others 

 that have come before me ; from several it is clearly separated 

 also by its form (not rotundate, but «u3parallel) and its size. 

 Its markings may be thus concisely expressed: — (1) humeral^ 

 continuous from the suture, round the shoulder, to the margin ; 

 (2) antemedial, two distinct, circular, isolated, equidistant, and 

 equal spots; (8) postmedial, two spots, not equal, not isolated, 

 not circular, placed somewhat obliquely, the external being in 

 front of the interior; (4) apical, two spots irregular in form, 

 smaller than the preceding, each of them confluent with a flavous 

 apex (but not reaching the apex), and the inner one confluent 

 also with the inner postmedial marking; the surface of the 

 thorax also, which is tolerably equally punctate throughout as 

 to the arrangement of the punctures, separates the species clearly 

 from some of its allies. 



A single specimen from M. Che\Tolat*8 collection from the 

 Cape. 



24. P. muitifida, Cher. (Dej. Cat.), n. sp. 



P. oralis, sat robusta, punctato-striata, aeneo-nigra, nitida ; capite 

 snbnigaloso, interdum etiam fovf* obsoleta transversa, nigro ; 

 thorace lateribus obliquis et antice rotundatis (leviter marginatis), 

 angulis anticis sat acutis ; disco ad medium lente et regulariter, ad 

 latera fortiter et confusim punctate ; scutello Isvi, nigro ; elytris 

 lateribus parallelis, punctato-striatia, maculis flavis inaequahbus 

 undique omatis, maculae hoc ordine dispoaitae sunt — serie prima 

 (ad basin) macula una, magna, circularis, scutelium penitus at- 

 tingens inter strias 1 . et 5 . ; secunda ante medium litura una, 

 subquadrata, inter strias 4. et /■ ; tertia post medium maculae duae, 

 h»c interior, inter strias 2. et "• transversa, irregularis (juxta su- 

 turam latior, marginem versus attenuatior), ilia exterior inter strias 

 8. et 10. marginem attingit ; quarta subapicali maculae duae dia- 

 positae sunt, inter strias 2. et 6., iterumque inter strias 6. et 1 0., sub- 

 confluentes, forma irregulares, haec juxta suturam cum vitta flava 

 conneclitur ; margo etiam ipse omnino flavus est : corpore subtua, 

 pedibus antennisque nigris. 



Long. Corp. lin. 3 j ; lat. lin. 2|. 



Not far removed in pattern from A. simulator, with which it 

 has been confounded in cabinets : it is, at first sight, like it in 

 general markings ; but the thorax is narrower and less parallel, 

 the size is larger, the colouring is aeneous black (not black), and 

 the markings themselves are larger in siae, greater in number, 

 and somewhat differently arranged. I have drawn up the above 

 description from two specimens in my cabinet (from Thom- 



