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pubescence. The margination of the elytra is near the apex nar- 

 rowly black ; the colour of the legs is flavous, the tarsi only (and 

 extreme apex of the tibia?) being black. 



Page 74. — Add, after Physimerus virgatus, 



4 a. Physimerus vulgaris. B.M. 



P. oblongo-ovatus, robustus, flavus, flavo-pubescens ; capite trans- 

 verso, brevi, ad basin punctato ; thorace transverso, rectangular i, 

 lateribus subtilitcr sinuatis, ad basin subdepresso ; el/ytris robustis, 

 punctato-striatis, pubescentibus, flavis, interdum longitudinal iter 

 (inter strias 1 et 4) fusco suffusis ; antennis Jiliformibus, robustis, 

 flavis, ad apicem fuscis ; pedibus flavis. 



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



Oblong-ovate, robust, subcylindrical, of a flavous colour through- 

 out, and clothed throughout with a fine pale-flavous pubescence. 

 Head transverse, not produced in front ; above the labrum are two 

 obliquely transverse carinations ; the eyes are large, circular, and 

 lateral, situated at the base of the head ; the surface between the 

 eyes is finely punctate. Thorax transverse, rectangular ; the anterior 

 angles are much depressed ; the sides are finely marginate and sub- 

 sinuate ; the surface (when viewed obliquely) is somewhat depressed 

 at the base, and thus exhibits an obsolete medial transverse ridge. 

 Scutellum situated in the same plane as the thorax, triangular, im- 

 punctate. Elytra sufficiently robust, subcyhndrical, rounded at the 

 apex ; the surface is punctate-striate, the punctures being more or 

 less concealed by pubescence : there is in some examples a manifest 

 tendency to a darker coloration between the first and the fourth strias ; 

 in some examples this longitudinal band is distinctly though suffusedly 

 apparent (vanishing as it approaches the apex) ; in other examples 

 it is entirely wanting. Antennas robust, filiform ; in colour flavous, 

 the five apical joints being suffused with fuscous. Legs flavous or 

 rufo-flavous throughout. 



This species is closely allied to P. virgatus and also to P. labialis : 

 from the former it differs in its concolorous thorax and elytra ; from 

 the latter it differs in the sculpture of its head and the form of its 

 elytra, which are more robust and less attenuated at the apex. From 

 both species it differs also by its larger size. 



From the neighbourhood of Rio Janeiro. In the collection of the 

 British Museum, and the cabinets of Mr. Fry and the Rev. H. Clark. 



