94 Mons. J. Bourgeois on Malacodermata 



clathris transversis quadrato-areolatis ; corpore subtus brunneo, 

 trochanteribus femorunique summabasi genubusque flavescentibus. 

 Long. 6 mill. ; lat. 2 mil]. 



[Captured at 10 p.m. on Dec. 18, 1826, between the 

 " Middle Part of the ascent up the " Sierra da Cubatao and 

 the " Upper Part " of the same ascent.] 



Plateros, Bourg. 



25. apicalisj Germ., 1 ex. — Bre'sil, Minas Geraes, near Nepo- 



mucena. 



[Nov. 3-6, 1825. See above, page 45. On 3rd and 4th at 

 Francisco Manoel's, 5th at Joao Alfonso's, 6th at Capitao 

 Leite's. " On the 3rd took a stroll up the hill to a Roca and 

 got many insects." " 4th .... ascended the hill into the 

 forest northward of our Rancho and took insects, till wet 

 through in a thunder shower. In the evening caught some 

 insects by the candle."] 



26. variicostaius, sp. n., 1 ? . — Bresil, Minas Geraes. 



Subparallelus, supra fere planatus, subopacus, tenuissimepubescens, 

 nigro-fuscus, prothorace antice et lateraliter sat late flavo-mar- 

 ginato, trapeziformi, basi longitudine paullo latiore, antice sub- 

 rotundato, basi utrinque sinuato, lateribus fere rectis, angulis 

 aniicis sat bene distinctis, posticis extrorsum versus paulum pro- 

 longatis, subacutis, disco postice longitudinaliter canaliculato, 

 antice cariuulato ; elytris 9-costatis, costis inasqualibus, alternis 

 (prsesertim 4, 6 et 8) magis elevatis, sexta a medio inde attenuate, 

 intervallis costarum a clathris transversis punctato-areolatis ; 

 corpore subtus nitidiusculo, tenuiter pubescente, fusco, trocban- 

 teribus femorumque summa basi rufescentibus ; abdominis seg- 

 mento ultimo ogivali ( $ ). 



Long. 7 mill. ; lat. 2^ mill. 



Espece voisine de P. incequalis, Bourg. (Ann. Soc. ent. Fr. 

 1899, p. 99), mais de coloration differente. 



[Oct. 23, 1825. "Lampyrts." At Discoberto, Minas 



Gerae's.] 



Lampyrididae. 

 Hyas, Cast. 



27. Sp. ?, 1 ? .—Bresil, Minas Geraes. 



[Oct. 21, 1825. " Lampyris." "In a rossa at Disco- 

 berto and along a channel (on the margin of the forest) which 

 conducts water to the house."] 



