THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
- Head thickly punctured, with rather a pone frontal ¢ 
depression and transverse groove ; thoracic margin not very wide, _ 
faintly sinuate angulate at the middle ; punctures fine and large, 
mixed, crowded, with the not uncommon smooth area at the 
middle base; elytra with well-marked basal and cross depres- 
sions. Form rather stout and convex, like lampros, Jac., but 
colour green in place of coppery and general form not so large. 
Hermesia confusa, sp. nov. 
Nearly the size, shape and colour, 2. e. fulvous brown, as brunnea, 
Jac., with a tendency in some examples for the elytra and legs to 
become piceous or purplish ; thorax scarcely subangulate at the sides, — 
and finely punctured (both like brunnea); elytra geminate punctate, 
nearly obsolete at the apex, the intervals in the 9 plainly marked 
with smooth, slightly elevated lines, less noticeable in the ¢. 
Type, 4 g,3 9, Mineiro, Goyaz, Brazil. 
Length, 5-6 mm. 
A specimen of brunnea, Jac., 2 , from Jacoby’s collection, and 
probably one of the three examples referred to in his deseription 
(‘Trans. Ent. Soc.,’ 1900, p. 489), is before me; the main 
difference between brunnea and confusa is the elytral punctuation ; 
it is very much stronger and thicker in bruxnea, and without the 
geminate, costate arrangement of confusa ; the apical punctua- 
tion is much stronger in brunnea. The geminate character of the 
punctures varies somewhat in different examples, and sometimes 
the series may be three punctures in place of two. — 
Hermesia inermis, sp. nov. 
Similar to a small awrata, Oliv., but entirely dark violet, ie the 
base of antennz and labrum rufous ; thorax finely punctate; elytra 
finely punctate striate, with smooth intervals at apex ; hind tibia of 
¢ without any dilation, such as is present in aurata. . 
Type, ¢,9, Columbia (Pelke) (unnamed we Jac. Coll.). 
Length, 4-5 mm. 
Head, especially the epistome, rather coarsely punctured, with 
a, deep transverse depression ; scape of antenne partly cyaneous ; 
thorax transverse, margined and subangulate behind the middle 
most of the punctures very fine, but here and there a coarser 
cluster, especially at the sides. Klytra with short and deep basal 
depression, showing coarser punctures. Closely allied to aurata 
and cyanea, but easily separated by the simple hind tibia of 
the 3 
Agbalus, Chap. 
This genus is founded upon A. sericéus, Chap., which is finely 
pubescent, with short antenne and legs, and the ¢ with a strong 
spur on the hind tibia; Lefevre added various non-pubescent 
forms with slender legs and long antenne, and Jacoby added 
puncticollis and tenebrosus from Mexico without the tibial spur. 
_Now occurs an intermediate form with dilated tibia. =: ela 
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