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hageni, more resembling that of P. albifrons so far as I can judge by 

 the figure (No. 19, Plate xiii., Trans. Roy. Dub. Soc., 1886). 



? . Length (rost. incl.), 2f ; breadth, 1^ lines. 



Waimarama, N'apier. Mr. Meinertzhagen. 



2235. P. viridescens, n.s. Body dark- fuscous, here and 

 there greenish, particularly near the shoulders, tibiae and third an- 

 tennal joint also viridescent, the other joints pale-brown but darker 

 at the extremity ; tarsi nearly black, elytra with some small dark 

 spots ; mandibles and front of rostrum reddish : densely clothed 

 with greyish, and yellowish, coarse hairs, the middle of the rostrum 

 with coarser villosity. 



Agrees in most respects with the description and figure of 

 P. albifrons. The antenna are, in the male, less than three times 

 the length of the body ; apex of joints 2-5 nodose, the others less 

 so. Head not dentate, finely and densely sculptured. Thorax 

 strongly transverse, uneven ; disc depressed, with a large, rounded, 

 slight elevation in the middle, finely and closely punctured, and 

 with a few larger punctures near the centre ; the carina medially 

 obtusely angulated, from thence directed a little forwards ; but 

 hardly sinuate, and, nearer the side than the middle, distinctly 

 angulated, from that point turned backwards to form the almost 

 sharp angle, and then marking the lateral margin to beyond the 

 middle ; its termination defined by a short notch in the side ; apex 

 obtusely rounded in the middle. Elytra oblong, uneven, basal ele- 

 vations large, third and fifth interstices elevated behind, fifth not 

 extending so far back as the third ; the rows of punctures distinct 

 but not regular, two of the striae deep near the shoulders, those 

 along the sides indistinct. 



$ . Length (rost. incl.), 2f-3J ; breadth, J-1J lines. 



Fern. Much more finely pubescent ; antennae, shorter than 

 the body ; eyes wholly uncovered, emarginate in front, not so large 

 and transverse as in P. signatus ; carina less distant from the base 

 of the thorax than in the other sex ; elytral elevations less de- 

 veloped, the striae more regular, almost quite regular. 



Length, 2-2f lines ; breadth, line. 



Clevedon. Mr. G. Mtinro was kind enough to send me three 

 examples of both sexes. 



2236. P. albifrons, n.s. (Sharp; Trans. Roy. Dub. Soc., 

 1886, p. 435.) Fusco-viridescens, hie inde rufescens, capite anterius 

 albido-piloso, elytris inaequalibus, antennis corpore fere triple longi- 

 oribus, testaceis. 



$ . Long., 5mm. 



The prevalent colour is a pallid fuscous, passing in places to a 

 greenish tinge, and in other spots to a reddish. The front of the 

 head, and also the basal joint of the antennae, present a vertical 

 face, covered with a white pubescence, which is denser and more 

 patchy on the middle of the head ; in front of the insertion of each 

 antenna there is a small pointed projection or tuft. The thorax is 



