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T. Thorax more or less bronze or blackish-gi'een ; 

 lengtli 4 — G lines. 

 1, Head rounded quadrangular. 



A A. Anterior tarsi of male strongly dilated. 



Head and tliorax bronze-black, shiny ; elytra greenish- 

 bronze ; abdomen, antennae and legs black ; pubescence 

 brownish-gray. Penultimate joints of antennae much 

 broader than long ; thorax with at most one setigerous 

 puncture on each side before middle beside dorsal rows ; 

 elytra closely, abdomen rather more diffusely punctured; 

 abdomen with four setae in a transverse row on fifth seg- 

 ment. L. 4 — 6 1. Common. P. aeneus, Rossi. 



J? 7?. Anterior tarsi of male only slightly 

 dilated. 



a a. Penultimate joint of antennae transverse; 

 penultimate abdominal segment of male 

 eiuarginate. 

 A ft. Elytra blackish-bronze. 



Black, shiny ; elytra blackish-bronze ; pubescence black. 

 Thorax with lateral impressions ; punctuation more diffuse 

 than in F. aeneus; head smaller than in P. carhonarius. 

 Thorax with two setigerous punctures on each side in 

 middle beside dorsal rows ; fifth abdominal segment with 

 six, fourth with two setae. P. succicola, Th. 



-B J). Elytra greenish-bronze. 



Black ; head and thorax brassy-black ; elytra brassy (a 

 little greener than in P. aeneus). Joints of antennae from 

 fifth to eleventh gradually shorter but scarcely broader; 

 thorax with lateral impressions ; elytra scarcely longer 

 than thorax, thickly punctured and pubescent; abdomen 

 diffusely punctured, rather more closely at base of each 

 ventral segment. Male with apex of seventh ventral ab- 

 dominal segment emaroinate. L. 5 — 5i 1. Eare. 



P. addendus, Sharp. 

 b b. Penultimate joint of antennae not broader 

 than long ; penultimate abdominal segment 

 of male entire. 

 Black, shiny ; elytra blackish-bronze ; abdomen versi- 

 colorous, pul)escence scanty, brown, anus, margins of ven- 

 tral segments and legs pitch-brown. Head narrower than 

 thorax ; elytra closely punctured ; thorax without lateral 



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