of the, Sul-family Pelidnotinss. 273 



gently and uniformly curved. There is a rather thick 

 clothing of erect golden hair upon the inside of the tibia, 

 the hairs being longer and more extensive than those 

 similarly occurring in Glial co'pUthis. The tarsi are slender, 

 and are slightly shorter but not thicker in the female. 

 The hind tarsus of the male has the claw-joint long and 

 very strongly curved and the outer claw is widened and 

 distinctly sinuated at its inner edge. 



The clypeus of the male is rather more excised at the 

 tip than in Chalcoplethis and the pygidium is uniformly 

 rugose and clothed with hairs only at the base. 



E'lyichcdco'phthis velutipes was described from a male 

 specimen, but there are now examples of both sexes in the 

 British Museum. The female differs from the male in 

 having the hind tibiae simple and only sparingly furnished 

 with hairs on their inner side and in the subacute clypeus. 

 The colour of the species varies from bright green to 

 bronze. The type was brought from Grenada in the West 

 India Islands, but other specimens are from Trinidad, and 

 Dr. Ohaus informs me that it also occurs on the South 

 American mainland. He has suggested that this insect 

 may perhaps be the Pelidnota metallica, Cast., one of the 

 species placed by Mr. Bates among the unrecognizable 

 forms. This is certainly not improbable, but the descrip- 

 tion is so fragmentary that without an examination of the 

 type there can be no sufficient reason even for treating it 

 as a member of the genus Upichalcoplethis. — G. J. A.] 



Lasiocala Ohausi, n. sp. 



^ . Broad, subquadrate ; head, thorax, and scutelliun, brilliant 

 violaceous, with or without greenish reflections : elytra reddish-vio- 

 laceous, less brilliant than the thorax : head small, sparsely and 

 finely punctured : clypeus without hairs, short and broad, subtruncate 

 in front with the angles rounded, moderately punctured, all the 

 margins feebly reflexed : thorax ample, sides strongly rounded ; 

 front angles not prominent, hind angles broadly rounded ; three 

 foveas near the hind angles, the two outer connected by an imjDressed 

 line ; very finely — and not closely — punctured ; between the punc- 

 tures — especially at the sides— the surface is minutely rugulose- 

 punctalate ; base rather strongly bisinuate ; the median lobe well 

 marked ; scutellum as long as wide, impressed down the middle, 

 entirely and distinctly — but not thickly — punctured; elytra broadest 

 behind the middle, very delicately punctulate-rugulose, with a few 



