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beautiful bluisli green, the legs, parts of the sterna, and margins of the seg- 

 ments shaded with purple. Tarsi cyaneous. The abdomen has some fine greyish 

 pubescence, and on the basal segment there is a brown velvety spot. Long. 

 11 mm. Habitat: Jamaica (Gosse). 



This species is very near P. velasco Laporte and Gory, but that has a rather 

 more angulated thorax, etc. It is possible that velasco and montezuma Laporte 

 and Gory, may be sexes of the same species, but there is not material at hand 

 to enable me to decide. 



The t3^pe of this species is in the collection of the British Museum 

 and has not been examined by the writer, but is included in the key 

 from the characters given in the original description. 



POLYCESTA MANNI, new species 



Female. — Narrowly elongate, subsylindrical, broadly rounded in 

 front, more attenuate behind, and moderately convex above; head 

 and pronotum black with the bottom of the punctures and median 

 depression on pronotum more or less cupreous; scutellum black; 

 elytra ferrugineous with the suture narrowly margined Avith a 

 nigro-aeneous color; beneath nigro-aeneous with a slight greenish 

 or purplish tinge, and the tarsi cyaneous. 



Head slightly convex without depressions on the front; surface 

 coarsely and densely punctate, the punctures not very deep, irregu- 

 larly placed, becoming somewhat confluent toward the sides and 

 forming a netAvork of irregular shaped reliefs, also sparsely clothed 

 with long inconspicuous erect, cinereous hairs; epistoma truncate in 

 front; antennae rather long, and reaching to the basal third of the 

 pronotum. Pronotum strongly transverse, two times as wide as 

 long, narrower in front than behind, widest just behind the middle; 

 sides regularly arcuately rounded, more obliquely in front than be- 

 hind, the posterior angles obtusely rounded and rather widely sep- 

 arated from the elytra ; anterior margin feebly arcuately emarginate 

 and without a median lobe ; base obliquety truncate to near the mid- 

 dle, where it is strongly angularly lobed and transversely truncate in 

 front of the scutelhnn; surface with a large, deep oblong median 

 depression, which is longitudinally carinate at the middle, and with 

 an obsolete depression on each side in the antero-lateral areas, the 

 surface in the median depression is finely and densely punctate, the 

 punctures shallow, more or less confluent, and shining at the bottom, 

 on each side of the depression the surface is subopaque with deep 

 pit like punctures, which are irregularly placed and rather widely 

 separated, and on the antero-lateral regions the punctures become 

 confluent, forming a network of vermiculate reliefs, which are more 

 or less shining, in the center of each puncture is a small round eleva- 

 tion from which arises a rather long fine semi-erect hair. Scutellum 



