190 PHYTOPHAGA.——SUPPLEMENT. 
joints fuscous; the thorax is more than three times as broad as long, rounded at the 
sides (but without projecting anterior angles), and very finely and rather closely punc- 
tured ; the scutellum is impunctate, minutely granulate, and narrowly margined with 
blue; the elytra are very convex at the base, very finely and rather closely punctate- 
striate, their epipleure broad and concave; the breast, cox, and extreme base of the 
femora are piceous, the rest of the legs and the abdomen being fulvous. A single 
specimen. 
4. Phaedra abdominalis. 
Dark violaceous-blue, the basal joints of the antennse and the abdomen obscure fulvous; thorax finely and not 
closely (the sides more remotely) punctured ; elytra closely and more strongly (semi-regularly) punctate. 
Length 23 lines. 
Broadly rounded, very convex; the head shining, sparsely impressed with deep punctures ; the clypeus wedge- 
shaped, sparingly punctured; labrum and mandibles piceous; antenne rather short, the lower three 
joints obscure fulvous, the rest black ; thorax about three times as broad as long, the sides but moderately 
rounded, the anterior angles rather obtuse and preceded by a short impressed line, the surface finely but 
not closely punctured, the punctures at the sides more strongly impressed and still more remote from each 
other; elytra much more strongly and closely punctured than the thorax, with a short semicircular row 
of punctures extending from the shoulder to about the middle of the lateral margin, and a broad smooth 
impunctate space within the margin, the inflexed limb deeply concave ; underside and legs blackish-blue ; 
abdomen dark fulvous. 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 
This insect has the elytral epipleuree broad and deeply concave, as usual in Phedra, 
from the other species of which it may be known by the sparingly-punctured head and 
the colour of the abdomen. A single specimen. 
5. Pheedra brevicornis. 
Rotundate, convex, metallic purplish; above cupreous; antenne short, the basal joints flavous; thorax 
strongly transverse, closely punctured; elytra rather remotely punctate-striate. 
Length 2 lines. 
Of a brilliant cupreous colour above, bluish-purple beneath ; the head strongly and closely punctured ; the 
labrum and mandibles piceous; antenne extending only to the base of the elytra, the lower six joints 
flavous, the others fuscous, the latter slightly thickened; thorax three times as broad as long, the sides 
obliquely rounded and strongly narrowed in front, the anterior margin deeply concave-emarginate, the 
surface strongly and closely punctured at the sides, more sparsely so on the disc; scutellum not broader 
than long; elytra wider at the base than the thorax, rounded at the sides, regularly convex, the surface 
rather remotely but not more finely punctured than the thorax, the punctures arranged in semi-regular 
rows, the epipleure broad and nearly flat; prosternum subquadrate. 
Hab. Nicaragua, Chontales (Janson). 
This handsome species, of which only a single specimen was obtained, seems to 
possess all the structura characters of Phedra; but is distinguished from the other 
members of that genus by the comparatively very short antenne. 
