of the, Snl)-family Pdidnotina^. 269 



segments very thinly punctured in the middle, the last delicately 

 aciculate-rugulose, testaceous at sides and along the hind border : 

 legs — including tarsi — testaceous, the femora with green reflections ; 

 antennfe dusky. 



Long. 25-5 mm. Lat. 14'5 mm. 



Hob. Brazil. 



P. fracida, n. sp. 



^. Ovoid, somewhat depressed, shining, dark testaceous-brown: 

 clypeus greenish in front, rounded and with a slight sinus in the 

 middle, margins lightly reflexed ; closely and very finely aciculate- 

 rugulose-punctate ; head purplish-brown behind, moderately punc- 

 tured : thorax widest just behind, the middle, moderately — and no- 

 where densely — punctured, the interspaces more closely — and very 

 minutely — rugulose-punctulate ; two or more shallow foveas at, or near 

 to, the sides ; median basal lobe narrow, its basal margin and a 

 corresponding portion of the anterior margin green : scutellum 

 bordered with green, sparsely and minutely punctulate : elytra 

 almost smooth, the entire ground - surface excessively delicately 

 punctulate-rugtilose, with larger — but still minute — punctures scat- 

 tered over the surface, but disappearing before the apex, also a few 

 faintly impressed stria3, and irregular rows (also disappearing before 

 the apex) of round pale spots with a minute black point in their 

 centre : pygidium moderately convex, rapidly declivous, closely and 

 entirely aciculate-rugulose, dark bronzed-green at the sides, greenish- 

 testaceous on the middle (well-defined) : under-side shining bronzed- 

 green with slight coppery reflections ; sides of metasternum thinly 

 pilose ; abdomen with segments 2-5 finely aciculately-rugulose at 

 the sides, sparsely punctured on the middle, the last entirely rugnlose- 

 punctate, with the sides narrowly testaceous : legs shining jjurplish- 

 brown with green reflections ; tarsi purplish-brown. 



Long. 23"5 mm. Lat. 13 mm. 



Hah. Brazil (Amazons). 



P. cayennensis, n. sp. 

 (J. Ovoid, somewhat depressed, shining pale testaceous, with the 

 margins of the clypeus, front and hind margins of thorax, scutellum 

 and suture of elytra, green : clypeus trapezoidal, distinctly and widely 

 emarginate and lightly reflexed in front; finely, and a little ru- 

 gosely, punctured : head faintly depressed, finely punctured : thorax 

 sub-parabolically curved at the sides, widest a little behind the middle, 

 moderately — and nowhere thickly — punctured, the interspaces as 

 in P.fraculd. ; one or more shallow foveas at, or near, the sides ; median 



