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present species from the vittate varieties of P. mutahilis and 

 -P. di versa. 



5. — Pseudolagria lycoides, n. sp. 

 (Plate II, fig. 15, $ .) 



Elongate, rather broad, widened posteriorly flattened and usually opaque 

 or aubopaqiie above, shining beneath, thickly clothed, tlie legs included, with 

 long, soft, erect hairs ; black, the anterior portion of the head (the labruiu and 

 mandibles excepted), a space around the eyes behind, the sides of the pro- 

 thorax, and the bases of the femora, testaceous or rufo-testaceous; the elytra 

 with a common, triangular or elongate, scutellar mark and a very large apical 

 patch, often united along the suture, black, and the rest of their surface 

 ochraceons. Head coarsely punctate, the eyes moderately large, somewhat 

 widely separated in both sexes; antennae (J) very long, slender, feebly 

 serrate, joint 3 longer than 4, 11 a little longer than 10, (J) stouter and 

 more strongly serrate [joints 7-11 wanting]. Prothorax narrower than the 

 head, subquadrate, very feebly constricted before the prominent basal margin ; 

 coarsely, irregularly, confluently punctate. Elytra long, twice as wide as the 

 prothorax, flattened on the disc, gradually widening to near the apex, the apices 

 slightly produced ; rather coarsely, closely, confluently punctate. Beneath 

 somewhat closely punctured. 



Var. c?- Elytra black, with a common rhomboidal spot at the middle of 

 the suture, and an oblong streak on each side of it near the margin (together 

 forming an interrupted fascia), and a humeral patch, ochraceous. 



Length 7J-9, breadth 2|-3i mm. ( c? $ .) 



Hah.: Brazil {ex eoll. Laferte: S ; Miers, in Mns. Oxon., 

 var., S ), Eio de Janeiro ( d $ ), Santa Catharina ( $ ) {Fry), Espirito 

 Santo {Mus. Brit. : § ). 



Described from two males and four females — two females from 

 Espirito Santo acquired in 1855, a male (labelled Lagria ?) from the 

 Laferte collection, and possibly from that of Dejean, a male from Eio de 

 Janeiro, and two females from Santa Catharina. The variety ( c? ) in 

 the Oxford Museum, captured in 1843, now has a $ abdomen 

 attached to it. The markings of the el^^tra vary, according to the 

 predominance of the ochreous or black coloration, just as in various 

 L3^cids, Telephorids, Hispids, etc., the two males having the scutellar 

 and apical patches coalescent. The insect is duller and flatter than the 

 allied forms, and very like a Lj-cid. 



[Since the publication of the preceding portions of this paper the 

 imperfect S Disema (No. 12), provisionally referred by me to D. hrasi- 

 lensis Pic, ante, p. 149, has been named cliampioni by the same author, 

 Melanges exot.-entom. xxv, p. 16, Aug. 1917.] 



