A CATALOGUE OF 
obliquely striated. Scutelluin less finely striated than the thorax. Pectus 
and under side of abdomen metallic-green. Abdomen with luteous spots 
along each side. Femora blackish red. Fore wings extremely thickly and 
minutely punctured; membrane lurid. Length of the body 13 lines. 
The thorax is more dilated on each side in front than that of P. 
amethystinum. 
a, Mount Ophir. From Mr. Wallace’s collection. 
12. PycaNuM STABILE. 
Sordide rufescens ; capitis thoracisque latera pedesque nigra ; caput eneo 
subnitens; thorax transverse et scite striatus, subtiliter et sat sparse 
punctatus, antice subglaber, lateribus anticis dilatatis subrectangulatis 
longitudinaliter striatis ; pectus viride; abdomen maculis lateralibus 
nigris, vittis duabus ventralibus latissimis viridibus ; ale antice 
eneo-viridi subvariea, membrana cinerea. 
Dark dull red. Sides of the head and of the thorax, legs and costa of 
the fore wings at the base black. Head extremely minutely punctured, 
with an eneous tinge. Rostrum piceous. Thorax transversely and finely 
striated, minutely and rather thinly punctured; fore part nearly smooth ; 
sides in front longitudivally striated, dilated and forming two rounded 
right angles. Scutellum less finely striated than the thorax. Pectus 
metallic-green; lobes mostly bordered with tawny. Abdomen with black 
lateral spots; under side with two very broad metallic-green stripes; disk 
longitudinally and very finely striated. Fore wings extremely minutely 
and thickly punctured, partly and slightly tinged with ceneous-green ; 
membrane cinereous. Length of the body 15 lines. 
In the structure of the thorax it most resembles the Mount Ophir 
specimen of P. ponderosum, and appears to be a link between that species 
and the following one. 
a. Hindostan. Presented by J. C. Bowring, Esq. 
13. PycANUM SMARAGDIFERUM. 
Nigrum, sublus piceum ; caput et thorax anticus subeneo-nigra ; anten- 
narum articulus 4us apice rufescens; thorax transverse substriatus, 
sublililer et sat sparse punctatus, fascia antica glabra undulata 
abbreviata, lateribus anticis dilatatis subrectangulatis longitudinaliter 
striatis; scutellum transverse rugulosum, apice fulvum; pectus 
smaragdino biplagiatum; abdomen guttis lateralibus fulvis, vittis 
duabus indeterminatis plagaque subapicali smaragdinis ventralibus ; 
coxe fulve ; femora obscure viridia; ale antice membrana e«neo- 
juscea. ‘ 
Black, piceous beneath. Head and fore part of the thorax with a very 
slight «neous tinge. Head with a minutely punctured stripe. Second 
joint of the antenne a little longer than the third; fourth rather longer 
than the second, reddish at the tip. ‘Thorax very slightly tansversely 
striated, minutely and rather thinly punctured, with an undulating 
abbreviated smooth band near the fore border; fore sides dilated, longi- 
tudinally striated, forming two rounded right angles. Scutellum trans- 
versely rugulose, tawny at the tip. Pectus with a large emerald-green 
