NEW ATEICAN CUECULIONID^. 



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PlAZOMIAS PEEEGEINUS. 



P. oblongo-ovatus, niger, squamis minutis albis vestitus ; prothorape 

 nigro, ad latera linea alba munito, disco sulcis plurimis inciso. Long. 

 41in. 



Sab. Delagoa Bay. 



Oblong-ovate, black, clotbed with, very small wbite scales, 

 absent, however, on the disk of the prothorax, and condensed into 

 a conspicuous stripe on the outer margin of the elytra ; head and 

 rostrum with a longitudinal median groove, with a ridge on each 

 side of the latter ; antennae pitchy ; the second to the fourth 

 joints of the funicle equal ; prothorax subglobose, black, the disk 

 with narrow longitudinal grooves — some confluent — and a line of 

 white scales at th.e sides ; elytra striate-punctate, the punctures 

 oblong, iuterstices convex ; body beneath at tbe side covered with 

 black, the middle with white scales; legs paler, studded with 

 wbite setsB. 



This species resembles the Chinese P. velaius, but it is narrower, 



* In the ' Annali del Museo Oivico di G-enova ' (ser 2*, vol. ii. p. 248) I have 

 ventured to raise this, one of Lacordaire's secondary groups of Oryjotorhynchinae, 

 to the rank of a subfamily. 



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