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PHYSIMERUS. 



2. Physimerus vittatus. 

 Physimerus vittatus, Dej. Cat. (ed. 3) p. 407 (cmctore Chevr. Coll.). 



P. oblongo-ovatus, subdepressus, flavus ; capite brevi ; ihor ace trans- 

 verso, ad latera marginato, ad basin depresso, punctata ; elytris 

 paraMelis,punctato-striatis,fidvis,quatuor vittis flavis a humeris 

 usque ad apicem ; antennis elongatulis, fuscis ; pedibus flavis. 



Long. corp. 2J lin., lat. 1 lin. 



Oblong-ovate, somewhat depressed, parallel, snbpubescent, flavous. 

 Head short, transverse, slightly depressed ; eyes black, somewhat 

 prominent, distant, and extending at their outer margin laterally as 

 far as the line of the thorax ; between the eyes is a transverse de- 

 pression (which varies somewhat as to its breadth in different ex- 

 amples) ; the upper and posterior surface of the head thickly punc- 

 tate. Thorax transverse ; the sides marginate and slightly convex ; 

 the anterior angles distinct and subacute ; the surface complanate, 

 thickly punctured, with a broad transverse basal depression extending 

 upwards and outwards towards the anterior angles. Scutellum small, 

 triangular. Elytra punctate-striate, darkly fulvous, with four lon- 

 gitudinal bands extending from the shoulders to the apex, and clothed 

 with (apparently formed by) a covering of bright silky flavous pu- 

 bescence ; these bands are generally equal in breadth to the spaces 

 which separate them, and are parallel, not to the striae, but to the 

 suture : throughout the whole surface of the elytra are distributed 

 long, distinct, upright hairs. Antennae somewhat fine and elongate, 

 fuscous ; first joint thick and dilated ; the second short and ovate ; 

 the fifth the length of the first ; the fourth longer than the fifth, 

 and the third than the fourth. Legs flavous, with the upper surface 

 more or less marked with shadings of brown. 



Closely allied to quatuor-lineatus, but separated from it by the dif- 

 ferent arrangement of the depressions on the head, and the absence of 

 any marking along the suture. 



Brazil (in the province of Bio Janeiro). In the collections of 

 Mr. Fry, M. Chevrolat, and the Bev. H. Clark. 



3. Physimerus quatuor-lineatus. 



Octogonotes quadrilineatus, Regne Anim. 1829, Guer. Mencville, 

 (vol. v. p. 154). 



P. oblongo-ovatus, subparallelus, subtiliter pubescens, pallide flavus ; 

 capite brevi, sabelongato, inter oculos in forma crucis foveolato, 

 impunctato ; thorace transverso, lato, ad basin subdepresso ; 

 elytris punctato-striatis, vittis duabus longitudinalibus, hac inter 

 strlas 2 et 4, brevi, ilia apud marginem a humero ad apicem ; 

 antennis art. 1 et 2 flavis (reliqui desunt) ; pedibus flavis. 



Long. corp. 2| lin., lat. 1£ lin. 



