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transverse, rectilinear, at the base slightly constricted and transversely 

 depressed ; the anterior angles subacute ; the surface finely flavo- 

 pubescent, punctate, flavo-rufous. Scutellum triangular, fuscous. 

 Elytra much broader than the thorax, depressed, punctate-striatc 

 (the punctures being broad and shallow, and the striae almost ob- 

 solete : at the apex the punctures are obsolete) ; the surface rufo- 

 flavous, clothed throughout (more or less) with a fine ashy pubescence : 

 two transverse bands of a rufo-piceous colour (the one at the hume- 

 ral angle, and the other medially) extend from the margins to about 

 the fifth stria, where they are obliquely inflected (in the direction of 

 the apex) , to the suture ; these angulated fasciae are broader and 

 more prominent in some examples than in others ; in all they are 

 well-defined. Antennce filiform, sufficiently robust, flavous, the first, 

 and also the sixth and seventh joints being rufo-fuscous. Legs flavo- 

 testaceous throughout. 



From the district of the Amazon. In the collection of Mr. Bates 

 and the Eev. H. Clark. 



Besides the differences in colouring and marking (which appear to 

 be tolerably constant) between this and other allied species, struc- 

 tural differences are apparent : in P. angido-fasciatus the base of the 

 thorax is more constricted than in P. brevicoUis, and the surface of the 

 thorax is more equate than in P. bituberculatus ; in the sculpturing 

 of the head, also, important differences may be traced. 



21. Physimerus bituberculatus. 



P. oblongo-ovatus, lotus, depressus, subpubescens, jtavo-rufus ; ca- 

 pite brevi, ad basin longitudinaliter carinato, punctato ; thorace 

 transverso, rectangidari, ad basin depresso, antice elevato, rufo- 

 fusco, antice et ad latera rufo; elytris latis, depressis, punctate— 

 striatis, rufo-fuscis, ad humeros, et juxta apicem transverse rufo- 

 Jiavis ; antennis jiliformibus, flavis ; pedibus fiavis, femoribus 

 posticis fusco suffusis. 



Long. corp. 2 lin., lat. 1 lin. 



Oblong-ovate, broad, depressed, subpubescent, flavo-rufous. Head 

 short, transverse, slightly depressed, hardly produced ; eyes large 

 and prominent; between the eyes, and above the insertion of the 

 antennas, is a small T-shaped depression, while above it, extending 

 to the base of the head, is a longitudinal carination ; surface finely 

 punctate. Thorax transverse, rectangular ; the anterior angles de- 

 pressed ; this depression extends in an oblique direction to the mid- 

 base, giving a prominence to the anterior part of the thorax, which 

 divides itself (very distinctly by colour, and also, less distinctly, by 



