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Antennal segment iii uniformly brownish black ; pronotal disk with 

 base and lateral margins black although extreme basal edge 

 s enderly pale, central area yellowish green but sometimes with 

 slender median vitta indicated in black; calli black, or in pale 

 forms mdicated with black lines ; tibiae brownish black, indistinct 

 pale spots apparent ; length 8.5 mm (p. 621) junceus n sp 



11. Lower half of head blackish, without clearly marked white areas; 



male genital segment and claspers distinctive (fig. 149: 6) .' 



T u ir r 1 , , . ^ , . . (P- 629) corticevivens 

 Lower half of head chiefly white, sometimes with black bar across 

 middle of tylus, dorsal margins of juga and lora dark reddish 

 black but the white areas never obscured 12 



12. Corium without distinct longitudinal black vitta on a grayish back- 



ground J2 



Corium with longitudinal black vitta along middle of apical* half* 

 set on a grayish background, radius indicated by an interrupted 

 series of black spots; antennal segment i, in length, equal to 

 distance between tylus and basal margin of pronotum, segment ii 



pale at base but interrupted beneath with blackish line 



(p. (i2,7) vittatus 



13. Antennal segment ii with the pale band situated at slightly beyond 



middle; tylus with distinct black band across middle, its lower 

 margin just in line with dorsal margins of lora; male genital 

 segment without tubercle at base of left clasper. . (p. 630) dimidiatus 

 Antennal segment ii with pale band at middle ; tylus wiAout heavy 

 black band across middle although frequently with an incomplete 

 dark reddish spot at about that point 14 



14. Pronotum strongly sulcate at sides and immediately behind calli; 



apical half of hind femora with three or four large pale marks, 



somewhat confluent on posterior aspect (p. 626) sulcatus 



Pronotum not distinctly sulcate at sides or behind calli; hind 

 femora chiefly black, with not more than one prominent white 

 band on apical half 15 



15. Hind femora brownish black, apical half with small pale dots only; 



pale band at middle of antennal segment ii nearly obsolete 



(p. 629) fumatus 

 Hind femora black, with a distinct white oblique band just before 

 apex; pale band at middle of antennal segment ii very distinct 



(p. 628) tuberculatus 

 P. lasiomerus Reuter. 



Acta Soc. Sci. Fenn., xxxvi, No. 2, 34, 1909. 



Male: Length 7.6mm., width 2mm. Head: Width 1.03mm., 

 vertex .47 mm., length .86 mm. ; only very sHghtly inclined, eyes 

 somewhat removed from pronotal collar, tylus prominent, clothed 

 with prominent yellowish pubescence ; reddish upon a yellowish 

 background, median line of front yellowish, transversely marked 

 with red at each side ; collum reddish, median line and a mark at 

 each side behind dorsal margin of eye, red. Rostrum, length 

 3.2 mm., reaching to hind margin of fourth abdominal segment, 

 yellowish, blackish at apex. 



Antennae: Segment i, length 1.66 mm., thickness .17mm., 

 yellowish, irregularly marked with red, apex reddish, clothed with 

 half erect black hairs and interspersed with more erect bristle-like 

 hairs which in length equal or slightly exceed thickness of seg- 



