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out locality, but is labeled " karakera Chevr., compared with type 

 (Saunders 74—18)."' This specimen is more coarsely punctured, 

 more brightly colored and more acuminate posteriorly, otherwise the 

 two specimens are identical. 



This species resembles tho'mae very closely, but it is more slender, 

 more brightly colored, more acuminate posteriorly, and the elytral 

 costae are more strongly elevated. 



POLYCESTA THOMAE Chevrolat 



Polycesta thotnae Chevkolat, Silbermann's Rev. Ent., vol. 5, 3838, p. 55. — 

 Watkrhouse, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7. vol. 14, 1904, p. 254. — 

 Kekkemans, Mon. Bupr., vol. 1, 1906, p. 516. 



Female. — Eobust, broadly elongate, and similar to porcata, broadly 

 rounded in front, more narrowly rounded behind and feebly convex 

 above; color above aeneo-nigris, with a strong greenish and purplish 

 tinge; beneath of the same color as above only more shining. 



Head flat, broadly obsoletely depressed on the front, and trans- 

 versely, narrowly depressed between the antennal cavities; occiput 

 without longitudinal carina ; surface coarsely, rather deeply and 

 densely punctate, the punctures variable in size, irregularly placed, 

 and more or less confluent, sparsely clothed with fine long erect hairs, 

 the intervals irregular in shape, convex, smooth, and shining; epis- 

 toma broadl}', but not deeply arcuately emarginate in front. Prono- 

 tum strongly transverse, two times as wide as long, slightly nar- 

 rower in front than behind, and widest at basal third ; sides strongly 

 obliquely expanded from the apical angles to basal third, where they 

 are broadly rounded, then strongly narrowed to the posterior angles, 

 which are nearly rectangular; anterior margin deeply arcuately 

 emarginate, with a broadly rounded median lobe, and the margin 

 smooth and feebly elevated; base bisinuate, with the median lobe 

 rather strongly angulated; disk with a broad, moderately deep 

 median depression; surface coarsely, deeply and densely punctate, 

 the punctures coarser, and more or less confluent in the median de- 

 pression and toward the antero-lateral areas, sparsel}^ clothed with a 

 fcAv moderately long recumbent hairs, tlie intervals densely granu- 

 lose and subopaque. Scutellum subquadrate, wider behind than in 

 front, and feebly elevated. Elytra feebly convex, about as wide as 

 pronotum at base; humeral angles obtusely angulated; sides feebly 

 expanded behind the humeral angles, sinuate at the posterior coxae, 

 nearly parallel to apical third, then arcuately attenuate to the tips, 

 which are conjointly broadly rounded, the lateral margins coarsely 

 and irregularly serrate posteriorly : each elytron with four smooth 

 longitudinal costae, of which the two discal ones are straight and 

 more strongly elevated than the intercostae, the scutellar cost a ab- 

 sent; there are also ten longitudinal rows of large deep elliptical 



