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sinuate and finely margined ; the posterior angles do not overlap 

 the shoulders, they are acute, and, owing to the sinuosity at each 

 side, they seem prominent ; its sculpture resembles that of the 

 head, but under an ordinary glass it appears punctate. Scutellum 

 moderate. Elytra oblong, their sides slightly curved, apices indivi- 

 dually broadly rounded ; they are minutely asperate, but the sculp- 

 ture seems to vary with the light. 



Antenna elongate, their two basal joints stout, cylindric ; the 

 terminal three form an elongate, very laxly articulated club, and 

 bear conspicuous, outstanding hairs ; intermediate joints elongate 

 and slender. Legs stout, pilose. Metasternum large, truncate be- 

 hind, not asperate. Hind coxae widely distant, not laminate, so that 

 the femora are free during repose. Abdomen with distinct yellow 

 pubescence, the basal segment larger than those near it, seventh 

 large: 



In this species the process of the mesosternum is not raised, it is 

 finely margined at each side, triangular in shape, and acutely pro- 

 jecting between the coxae. It is much larger than P. posticale, and 

 less convex than P. laivsoni. 



Length, quite f ; breadth, J line. 



Capleston, Westland. Discovered by Mr. A. T. Cavell. Six 

 examples of this group were forwarded at one time ; two of these, 

 however, cannot be referred to this species. 



Actidium. 



2497. A. lineare, n.s. (Matth.; Cist. Entom., Vol. i., 

 p. 296.) Lineare, elongatum, valde convexurn, nigrum, pube brevi 

 grisea sat dense vestitum, capite magno, sat acuminate ; pronoto 

 parvo, capite nee latiori nee longiori, impressione levi longitudinal! 

 ad medium discum, punctisque magnis per totum notato, lateribus 

 vix rotundatis, margine basali fortissimo rotundata angulis obsoletis ; 

 elytris capite atque pronoto plus quam sesqui longioribus, haud 

 latioribus, lateribus fere rectis, apice integro valde rotundato; pedi- 

 bus atque antennis modicis, laete flavis. 



Caput magnum, elongatum, sat acuminatum, punctis profundis 

 fere confluentibus impressurn ; oculis modicis prominentibus ; 

 antennis sat robustis. 



Pronotum parvum, capite nee latius nee longius, punctis magnis 

 fere confluentibus atque in disco pone medium impressione levissima 

 longitudinal! utrinque notatum, lateribus fere rectis, leviter mar- 

 ginatis, basi valde rotundato elytrorum humeris incumbenti. 



Scutellum parvum triangulari prof undo punctatum. 



Elytra linearia elongata, capite atque pronoto sesqui longiora, 

 haud latiora, ordinibus transversis irregularibus confertim sat pro- 

 funde asperata, lateribus fere rectis, leviter marginatis, apice lato, 

 integro, valde rotundato. 



Abdomen haud exsertum. 



Pedes modici, laete flavi, tibiis pone media leviter dilatatis, tarsis 

 brevibus. 



30 PTS. v., vi., vii. 



