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Hah.: Brazil, Baliia (Beed), Espirito Santo (DescourtUs). 



Two males and three females, all from the Fry collection, and 

 labelled by him as belonging to a genus near Lacconotus Lee. (?). 

 This insect is coloured like a European Pythid, Bhinnsimus (yincenz- 

 ellus*) viridijjennls Steph., and therefore very different from E. rvhens 

 and E. kirhyi. 



PoLYPEiA Chevr. 



Three species of this genus were recognized by Pic in 1902, and 

 he added another in 1909. t The descriptions of the two Brazilian 

 forms in the Museum were drawn up before his papers had been 

 seen by me. A variety of P. crux-rufa Chevr., from Jatahy, Brazil, 

 is named by him incruciata. 



1. — Polyuria lateralis. 

 Polypria lateralis Pic, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1902, pp. 166, 167. 



Elongate, shining ; head, pr other ax, basal joints of the antennae, outer 

 limb of the elytra wholly or in part (sometimes at the apex only), and under 

 surface, black or piceous, the rest of the antennae and elytra, and the legsj 

 reddish-brown or testaceous ; above and beneath closely, coarsely punctate, 

 clothed with long, intermixed, decumbent and erect cinereous hairs. Eyes 

 extremely large, coarsely facetted, separated by less than half their own width. 

 Antennae moderately serrate, considerably longer in ^ than in $ . Prothorax 

 transverse, about as wide as the head, sub-angularly dilated at the sides before 

 the middle, and narrowed thence to the base and apex, the hind angles sub- 

 rectangular ; the disc with three large, very deep foveae (the anterior one 

 transverse), the groove within the basal margin also deep. Elytra much wider 

 than the prothorax, very long, sub-cylindrical, with a short, deep sutural stria 

 before the apex. Length S-Gj, breadth, 2|--3i mm. (<??). 



Hab. : Brazil {Leseleuc : type in coll. Pic), Bahia (Pry), Espirito 

 Santo, Parana (Mus. Brit.). 



Four specimens, two in bad condition. Larger and more elongate 

 than the Central American P. crux-rufa Chevr., the black marking of 

 the elytra reduced to a narrowed marginal stripe, the antennae longer 

 in (^ and much less strongly serrate, the three dorsal foveae of the 

 prothorax larger and deeper. P. zigzaga Pic, from Jatahy, Brazil, 

 must be an allied form ; it is described as having the elytra testaceous, 

 with two longitudinal dark bands, these varying in development, and 

 sometimes united anteriorly. 



* Ruitter, Fauna Germauica, iii, p. 222 (1911). 



t Placed under Ocdaaeridac in Zool. Record, 1902, and under Othniidae in 1909. 



