1917.] 219 



Type, P. miitahilis. 



The Brazilian forms included under this genus are deceptively like 

 small Oedemerids of the genera Sisenes, Techmessa, Cycloderus, etc., and 

 the five here dealt with were found placed amongst them in the collec- 

 tions at the British Museum. The anterior coxal cavities, however, when 

 examined with the prothorax detached, prove to he closed behind, much 

 as in Lagria, Ai^thromacra, etc., and the genus therefore must be in- 

 cluded in Lagriidae. The only other described S. American Lagriid* 

 with a similarly depressed intercoxal process of the prosternum is 

 Emydodes Pasc. Two of the species here included under Pseudo- 

 Incjria are so variable in colour that the selection of' a definite tj^pe is 

 simply a matter of choice. P. lycoides and jlamfrons may be said to 

 mimic Lycids. 



1. — Pseiidolagria mufabilis, n. sp. 

 (Plate II, figs. 14, 14 a, 14 b, mouth-parts, 6 .) 



Narrow (J), broader ($), moderately elongate, shining, thickly clothed, 

 the legs included, with long, soft, erect or projecting, pallid hairs, the antennae 

 also pilose ; nigro-piceous or black, the prothorax and scutellum, the tip of the 

 elytra, and in one specimen the sides also from a little below the base to near 

 the apex, the abdomen in part, the legs (apices of tibiae excepted), and some- 

 times the head and mesosteruum. testaceous. Head coarsely punctate, eyes 

 large, well separated in both sexes ; antennae ( c? 2 ) very long, slender, feebly 

 serrate, joint 3 slightly longer than 4, 11 one-half longer than 10 in J, shorter 

 in 2 , constricted towards the apex. Prothorax short, transversely cordate, as 

 wide as ( 5 ), or a little narrower than ( (^ ), the head ; impressed with a few, 

 intermixed coarse and liner punctures towards the sides and base, sometimes 

 with two larger foveae on the disc posteriorly. Elytra long, about twice as 

 wide as the prothorax, flattened on the disc, very gradually widening for about 

 three-fourths of their length, and then abruptly narrowed to the apex, the 

 apices somewhat acute ; coarsely, closely, subconfluently punctate. Beneath 

 sparsely, the sides of the metasternum closely, punctate. 



Var. a. Prothorax, scutellum, elytra (the apical margin, aud in one speci- 

 men the sides also to near the apex excepted), and legs (the bases of the femora 

 excepted), black or piceous. 



Var. /3. Prothorax, the suture (broadly to ngar the apex), sides (from 

 below the hiuneri to near the tip) and apices of the elj'tra, mesosternum, and 

 legs (apices of tibiae excepted) testaceous. 



Var. y. Prothorax, basal third and apical margin of elytra, legs (apices ol 

 tibiae excepted), and under surface testaceous. 



Length 6-7, breadth 2-2| mm. ( d 2 •) 



JIab. : Brazil (Miers, in Mus. Oxon.), liio de Janeiro {JBeske, 



* Sti'tirepeif Borchra. is unknown to me. 



