370 Mr. H. W. Bates on the 
Baron Chaudoir has communicated the following note on this 
species, founded on the specimens brought home by me :— 
‘‘ Ta description-de Klug convient trés-bien aux individus que 
j'ai sous les yeux, et je ne doute point qu’ils ne se rapportent a 
cette espéce, mais Klug a tort de dire que le ventre est lisse et 
glabre, car la poitrine du male est pointillée et pubescente sur le 
milieu et les avant-derniers segments de l’abdomen offrent prés du 
milieu deux touffes de poils longs (surtout les deux antérieurs), 
s¢parés par un espace glabre mais finement rugeux. La femelle 
seule est lisse. Villa Nova et Obydos.” 
I beat a pair of this species, in copuld, out of a flowering bush 
at Villa Nova, on the lower Amazons. 
11. Agra scrutatriz, n. sp. 
A. meerenti forma et sculpturd simillima; differt elytris linea 
recta truncatis, antennis articulo 8’°() brevissimo. Nigro- 
genea, thorace pedibusque eneo-piceis ; capite elliptico, tho- 
race gracili, elytris angulis suturalibus leviter productis, 
externis acute dentiformibus. 
@ Antennis articulis 8—11 reliquis brevioribus, haud graci- 
lioribus, 8¥° sequenti dimidio breviori. 
Long. 7 lin. 
Ega. Oneexample. M. de Chaudoir gave it as his opinion that 
this was simply a variety of 4. meerens. The great difference in 
the truncation of the elytra and the relative length of the eighth 
antennal joint compel me to consider it a very distinct form. 
12. Agra merens, Chaudoir. 
Agra meerens, Chaud. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1861, p. 119. 
A. femorate simillima, minor, nigra, viridi-zeneo tincta, pedibus 
piceo-nigris ; capite angustiori, elliptico; elytris in utroque 
sexu postice ampliatis, foveolis passim discretis, apice utrin- 
que transversim bisinuato-truncatis, tridentatis, dente sutu- 
rali haud producto. 
é Metasterno glabro, segmentis ventralibus 2-3 medio utrinque 
punctatis et sparsim pilosis ; tibiis posticis medio leviter an- 
gulatis, pone medium breviter hirsutis. 
@ Antennis articulis 8-11 gracilibus, 8° sequenti paulo bre- 
viori. 
Long. 7—8 lin. 
Ega. Concealed in leaves of trees in the forest. 
