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widened behind tlie middle, eacli with 9 entire strongly impressed 

 strife, which are here and tliere punctured ; intervals very distinctly, 

 but moderately, punctured, and here and there transversely rugose ; 

 coarsely rugose behind the shoulders : pygidium concolorous with 

 the elytra, very delicately and closely rugulose, evenly and entirely 

 clothed with short decumbent hairs, with the usual longer setse at 

 sides and apex ; gradually declivous to the apex, which is rounded : 

 under-side shining bronzed-green, sides of breasts and of abdomen 

 thickly clothed with long yellowish hairs, nearly smooth in the 

 middle ; last abdominal segment short, smooth on the middle ; 

 legs dark blue ; tarsi cyaneous ; antennae dark blue. 



$ . Form more elliptic : clypeus longer, more deeply and 

 subang 11 lately notched, and more reflexed in front ; the elytra 

 less tinged with green, the intervals more strongly punctured and 

 rugose, the sutural apex acute ; the pygidium longer and more 

 gradually declivous ; tlip last abdominal segment long and entirely 

 aciculate-rugulose. 



Long, c?- ?• 25-26-5 mm. Lat. max. 13-13-75 mm. 



Hob. Colombia. 



I have received this species from numerous sources, 

 all with the name adopted. It appears to be rather 

 common. 



Var. (?) tcnuistriata. 



5 . Differs from P. Kirschi in having the upper surface decidedly 

 more coppery and more shining, sides of clypeus green, the rest 

 of the head bright coppery : the puncturation — especially of the 

 elytra — finer ; the striae very faintly marked, and distinctly evenly 

 and finely punctured : clypeus with the notch in the front margin 

 less deep, not at all angulate, and less reflexed in front ; the femora 

 tinged witli green on the under-side ; the tibias more chalybeate, 

 the tarsi chalybeate-green ; the under-side more coppery, the last 

 abdominal segment less strongly sculptured, with the sides nearly 

 smooth. 



Long. 27-5 mm. Lat. 13-5 mm. 



Hob. Venezuela (St. Ines). 



A single $ only : further specimens will be needed to 

 determine its rank more positively. 



P. (hihia, n. sp. 



Oblong, a little depressed ; shining pale golden-testaceoris, more 

 or less tinged with green. 



