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2, Elytra with very short hairs, scarcely projecting 

 beyond scales ; antennae yellow-red, with apex of 

 scape and the club black. 



Oblong. Black ; closely covered with green or blue- 

 green scales ; hairs short, white ; antennae as above ; legs 

 black, with apex of tibiae and tarsi red-brown or brown. 

 Eostrum flat above, with central channel. L. 2 — 2\ 1. 

 Common. P. maculicornis, Germ. 



h. Body without scales. 



Elongate. Black ; elytra brown, with or without blackish 

 margin ; antennae and legs brown-red ; with rather long, 

 gray pubescence. L. 2 — 2\ 1. Common. 



P. oh long us, Lin. 

 £. Femora not toothed. 



a. Elytra closely covered with scales. 



J. Breast and abdomen closely covered with gTeen 

 scales. 



Similar to P. uniformis but with thorax longer, less 

 dilated at sides, flatter and sometimes ridged in middle ; 

 elytra longer. L. 2 — 2\ 1. Common. P. jjomonae, 01. 



IT, Breast and abdomen diffusely covered with green 

 scales. 



Black ; antennae, tibiae and tarsi red-yellow; upper-side 

 closely covered with pale green dull scales. Antennae 

 rather thick ; rostrum moderately long. L. If — 2^ 1. 

 Common. P. uniformis, Marsh. 



b. Elytra without scales. 



Oblong-ovate. Black, shiny; antennae, tibiae and tarsi 

 brown-yellow ; femora pitch-brown ; sides of thorax and 

 the breast covered witli green scales. Antennae rather 

 thick ; rostrum short ; thorax closely punctured, sides 

 moderately rounded; elytra with rather deep punctured 

 striae, interstices scarcely convex, L. 1| — 2 1. Common. 



P. viridicollis. Fab. 



Cathormiocerus, 



A, Scrobes not reaching eye. 



Oblong-ovate. Pitch-black ; antennae and legs brown ; 

 covered with gray scales, on upper-side scantily in middle, 

 closely at sides, on under-side not very closely. Eostrum 



