92 PHYSIMERUS. 



frequent on the sides and at the base ; near to the line of margina- 

 tion (at the sixth and seventh stria3) is an irregular line of pale 

 pubescence from the shoulder to the apex ; medially, also, between 

 the second and third stria? is a minute longitudinal marking of the 

 same colour. Antenna' filiform, slightly dilated; the joints 1, 2 and 

 6 to 8 subdilated and darkly fuscous, 3 to 5 elongate and rufo-fcrru- 

 gineous, 9 to 11 flavous. Legs rufo-fuscous, the posterior femora being 

 suffused with piceous, and the globular inflation over the apical claw 

 bright rufous. 



Colombia. In the collection of Mr. Baly. 



27. Physimerus griseostriatus. 



P. oblongo-ovatus, fuscus ; capite subproducto, leviter reflecto-punc- 

 tato, nigro ; thorace quadrato, antice subrotundato, ad basin trans- 

 verse depresso, pubescent i, jlavo, ad medium hngitudinaliter fusco ; 

 eh/tris subparallelis, punctato-striatis, pube admodum brevi ves- 

 titis, ad latera fiavo-vittatis ; antennis filiformibus, art. 1-3 

 fusco suffusis, 4 testaceo, 5-8fuscis, 9-11 testaceisj pedibusjiavis, 

 femoribus posticis ad basin fusco suffusis. 



Long. corp. 1-J lin., lat. |— 1 lin. 



Oblong-ovate, subparallcl, deeply punctate-striate, pubescent, 

 fuscous. Head short, transverse, somewhat produced in front ; eyes 

 large, prominent, situated at the base of the head, and extending 

 laterally beyond the angles of the thorax ; the antennas are inserted 

 between the eyes, and (as in Loxoprosopus) immediately upon the 

 angle (which is somewhat abrupt) that is formed by the depression 

 of the anterior part of the head; surface thickly punctate, black. 

 Thorax quadrate, with the anterior angles depressed and obsolete ; 

 the sides submarginate and slightly contracted at the base, which is 

 transversely and postmedially depressed ; the surface subpubescent 

 throughout, flavous, with a medial longitudinal marking (broad and 

 suffused) of flavo-fuscous. ScuteUum minute, triangular, fuscous. 

 Elytra broad, subparallcl, punctate-striate, clothed throughout (as is 

 apparent under a high magnifying power) with a fine pubescence, 

 but more distinctly so at the margin : a broad band of flavous 

 pubescence is continued along the line of margination from the 

 shoulders to the apex ; this band is irregular and (apparently) un- 

 certain in form : colour fuscous. Antenna tolerably long, filiform ; 

 the first three joints suffused with fuscous ; the fourth testaceous ; 

 the fifth to eighth dark fuscous ; the ninth to eleventh pale testaceous. 

 Legs flavous throughotit, the apex of the femora being suffused with 

 fuscous. 



This species, in form and markings, is not unlike P.pruinosus ; it 



