of the Sub-family Pelidnotinm. 261 



P. aciculata, n. sp. 



$ . Elongate, narrow, pointed both in front and behind : head 

 and thorax bronzy-brown, feebly shining ; clypeus elongate, moder- 

 ately narrowed to the front, the apex rounded, slightly notched at 

 the middle and recurved, rather strongly and closely rugose-punctate : 

 thorax strongly but not very closely punctured on the middle ; 

 more closely and rugosely at the sides : widest at about the middle, 

 front angles prominent and acute, the hind sub-obtuse ; base very 

 broadly lobed, strongly margined, scarcely as wide as base of elytra : 

 scutellum wider than long, coppery-brown, with bright green 

 margins, sparsely punctulate : elytra ridged along the base, a little 

 widened to behind the middle, testaceous-brown, moderately shining, 

 the sutural apex sub-spinose, each elytron with 9 regular rows of deep 

 punctures, which are frequently elongated, or confluent, and are of a 

 lustrous greenish colour at the bottom ; there are besides 2 or 3 short 

 irregular converging rows near the shoulder, between the 5th and 6th 

 rows, and another short basal one between the 1st and 2nd rows, by 

 the suture : pygidium greenish, thinly clothed with short decumbent 

 hairs ; closely, and rather strongly, aciculate-rugose, without setaj at 

 sides and apex, this latter narrowly rounded : under-side very 

 sparsely pilose, and, with tlie legs beneath, shining bronzy-green ; 

 legs above coppery-green : tarsi bright purplish-coppery : 5th and 6th 

 abdominal segments elongate, closely transversely rugose : prosternal 

 process large, the mesosternal long, moderately robust, rounded at 

 apex. 



Long. 22 mm. Lat. 10 mm. 



Hah. Cayenne. 



A single $, also in the collection of the Royal Museum 

 of Brussels, bearing a label of Cancleze with the name here 

 adopted. 



P. Kirschi, n. sp. 



Oblong-ovoid, a little depressed, bronzed-brown, moderately 

 shining : head, thorax and scutellum distinctly tinged with green 

 or coppery. 



^. Head lightly depressed, moderately punctured : clypeus 

 rather strongly — but not angularly — emarginate in front, the angles 

 rounded, and — together with the side margins — moderately reflexed, 

 closely but finely and scarcely rugosely punctured : thorax widest 

 at about the middle, median basal lobe broad ; densely, and a 

 little rugosely, punctured at the sides, much more lightly on the 

 middle, which shows traces of a smooth median line : scutellum 

 with the sides curvilineate, lightly punctulate : elytra a little 



