264 The late Mr. F. Bates's Revision 



minutely and distantly punctulate, with traces of seriate punctures : 

 pygidium shining, gradually declivous, delicately and entirely, 

 transversely and closely, acicnlate-rugulose, witlia few setfe at the sides 

 and a tuft at the apex, which is rather narrowly rounded : metaster- 

 num coppery-green and clothed with long shaggy hairs ; abdomen 

 shining bronzed - green, coppery along the hind margin of the 

 gegments, closely and very finely aciculate-rugulose and scantily 

 pilose at the sides, smooth on the middle, the last segment closely 

 and entirely aciculate-rugulose : legs bright purplish-coppery, tarsi 

 bronzed-green : antenufe fusco-testaceous. 

 Long. 23 mm. Lat. 11 mm. 



Hal). Venezuela (Meiida). 



P. vittipcnnis, n. sp. 

 ^ . Oblong-ovoid, brilliant golden testaceous, with strong bright 

 green reflections, especially on head and thorax : clypeus strongly, 

 but not angulately, notched and strongly reflexed in front, closely 

 punctured: head finely and thinly punctured, rather strongly 

 depressed : thorax widest— and rounded — at the middle, basal lobe 

 broad ; very sparsely and finely punctate, with a few larger punctures 

 and several faint foveas at the sides : scutellum not wider than long, 

 minutely punctulate : elytra widened behind, excessively minutely 

 and not at all closely, punctulate, with here and there a few more 

 distinct and seriate punctures : a broad oblique vitta extending from 

 the shoulder to near the apex, and a shorter narrower one apically, 

 by the suture ; these vitt*, when viewed obliquely, are of a shining 

 green colour : pygidium very delicately and closely aciculate-rugulose, 

 except the apex which is smooth and testaceous ; a few short scattered 

 decumbent hairs at the sides and along the base ; less gradually 

 declivous than in any of the preceding species, with the apex broadly 

 rounded : under-side and legs shining green, a little brassy on the 

 abdomen ; sides of breast and of abdomen thinly pilose, closely and 

 finely punctured ; the last ventral segment transversely aciculate- 

 rugulose along the base ; tarsi cyaneous with the claws greenish; 

 antennae green, the club a little infuscate. 



5 . Sides of the clypeus sinuately — and more strongly— narrowed to 

 the front, which is more deeply notched, and more reflexed : elytra 

 more parallel, distinctly but confusedly punctured down to the 

 suture, seriately punctured at the sides : pygidium less convex and 

 more naked : last ventral segment more strongly and entirely 

 sculptured. 



Long. $. 24 mm. ?. 21-5-24 mm. 



Lat. (J. 12 mm. $.10-11-25 mm. 



Hah. Brazil (Jatahy, Province of Goyas). 



