CHALCOPLACIS.— PILEDKA. Ill 



CHALCOPLACIS. 



Chalcoplacis, Chevrolat in d'Orbign. Diet. Univ. Hist. Nat. 1843, p. 372 j Baly, Trans. Ent. Soc. 

 ser. 3, ii. p. 338 (1865). 



Like several other allied genera, the present genus bears a great outward resemblance 

 to the Lamprosomidse, and even to the Coccinellidse. Up to the present year no species 

 has been described from Central America, all of them, to the number of nineteen, having 

 been found in different parts of South America only. 



1. Chalcoplacis fulvipes. 



Kotundate, convex, metallic green below ; legs and antennae fulvous ; thorax metallic cupreous, margined with 

 green, strongly punctured ; elytra dark blue, punctate-striate. 



Length 2 lines. 



Head metallic green, closely and strongly punctured, with an obsolete longitudinal central groove ; clypeus 

 closely and deeply punctured, separated in front from the face by two smooth elevations ; antennae half 

 the length of the body, entirely light fulvous ; thorax transversely convex, brilliant cupreous, shading into 

 metallic green at the anterior margin, surface strongly but not very closely punctured ; scutellum violaceous, 

 smooth ; elytra dark blue, distinctly semiregularly punctate-striate ; legs and tarsi fulvous. 



Hab. Guatemala, Senahu (Champion). 



Nearly allied to C. sumptuosa, Baly, but at once distinguished from that species by 

 the strong punctuation of the thorax. 



2. Chalcoplacis jansoni. 



Metallic green ; antennae obscure fulvous ; above cupreous ; head deeply strigose-punctate ; thorax strongly 



and closely punctured ; elytra regularly punctate-striate. 

 Length 2 lines. 

 Head deeply punctured at the vertex, longitudinally strigose in front of the eyes ; clypeus rugose-punctate, 



limited in front by two strongly raised smooth spaces ; labrum and jaws piceous ; thorax punctured as in 



G. fulvipes; elytra more strongly punctured than the thorax, the punctures arranged in regular rows; 



underside and legs metallic green. 



Hab. Nicaragua, Chontales (Janson). 



Distinguished from all other species by the metallic-green underside and legs, in 

 connexion with the striae of the head. 



PUMDRA. 



Phcedra, Dejean, Cat. 3rd ed. p. 438 j Chapuis, Gen. Col. x. p. 235 (1874). 



The species constituting this genus are but few in number. It was founded upon a 

 small species from Cayenne, in shape and form very like a species of Coccinella, and 

 distinguished by the broadness and concavity of the elytral epipleurse. The latter 

 character, however, is to a less extent to be found in the genus Chalcoplacis; and I 

 doubt very much the propriety of separating these two genera,, as all the characters are 

 common to both, and the concavity of the elytral epipleurse seems to vary in the 

 different species. 



