GYRETES PYGMAEUS. 71 



rufis, intermediis ac posticis epipleurisqiie flavo-testaceis ; 

 pronoto latius antice quam postice ad latera punctato-to- 

 mentoso; elytris fere recte truucatis , angulis rectis haud 

 deletis , auguste ad latera , paulo latius postice et usque ad 

 angulum internum punctato-tomentosis. 



Oval , very convex ; uppersurface of a very glossy black 

 color with bluish tinges , and with an exceedingly narrow 

 yellow border on the thorax and elytra; undersurface pitchy 

 black , the middle of the sternum , the abdomen and the an- 

 terior legs reddish; the middle- and hind-legs, as well as 

 the epipleurae of a bright yellow; the tomen tons band of 

 the pronotum tolerably broad anteriorly, narrower poste- 

 riorly ; that of the elytra is very narrow , but widens out 

 a little towards the outer angle of the truncation and ter- 

 minates at the sutural angle; the truncation of the elytra 

 almost straight, with the angles not blunted and not pro- 

 jecting. 



Hab. Brasil (Westwood). — Two specimens. 



Evreux, November 1881. 



r^otes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. IV. 



