PHYSIMERUS. 73 



Oblong-ovate, subparallel, very finely pubescent, of a pale flavous 

 colour. Head short, transverse, subelongated in front, and reflected 

 downwards (at the insertion of the antennae) at a right angle to the 

 plane of the elytra ; between the eyes is a distinct transverse groove, 

 and crossing it at right angles is another (longitudinal and medial), 

 extending from the insertion of the antennae to the base ; the surface 

 impunctate : eyes tolerably prominent, black, situated at the base of 

 the head. Thorax transverse, extending beyond the outer margin 

 of the eyes ; the anterior angles depressed and subacute, but almost 

 obsolete ; the sides marginate, slightly dilated medially ; at the base 

 is a transverse depression ; the surface is impunctate and (when 

 viewed under a high power) very finely flavo-pubescent. Scutellum 

 small, triangular, impunctate. Elytra subparallel, punctate- striate ; 

 between the second and the fourth striae is a longitudinal band of 

 darker fulvous parallel to the suture, and which does not extend to 

 the apex ; along the margination is another, narrower band, which 

 extends from the shoulders in a somewhat irregular line to the apex ; 

 these four longitudinal lines are glabrous, the rest of the surface 

 being clothed with a fine pale flavous pubescence. Antenna? : the first 

 two joints flavous (the rest are wanting). Legs flavous throughout. 



Brazil. In the collection of M. Chevrolat. 



This species approaches very nearly to vittatus ; it differs, how- 

 ever, in the form and position of the longitudinal markings on the 

 elytra : in quatuor-lineatus these occur from the second to about the 

 fourth striae, and again along the margination ; while in vittatus 

 the medial marking is along the sutural line, and the exterior 

 marking, not along the line of margination, but between the fourth 

 and sixth striae : the form of the depressions on the head also suffi- 

 ciently distinguishes it. 



4. Physimerus virgatus. 



P. oblongo-ovatus, lotus, robustus, pubescens, fuscus ; capite elonga- 

 tulo, supra basin antennarum granulato, nigro ; thorace trans- 

 verso, rectilineari, apud angidos posticos, etiamque longitudina- 

 liter ad medium foveolato, nigro ; elytris latis, punctato-striatis, 

 Jlavo -pubescent ibus, quatuor-lineatis ; antennis ad apicem in- 

 crassatis, nigris ; pedibus piceis. 



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



Oblong-ovate, broad, robust, very finely pubescent, fuscous. Head 

 short, transverse, elongate in front ; between the upper part of the 

 labrum and the base of the antennae is a triangular depressed and gla- 

 brous plane ; above the base of the antennae and between the eyes the 



