of the Famili/ Buprcstidai. 2.'>5 



Polijcestd ih'prcssa, Liuu. 



The type of tliis sjjccics is in the Linnean collection at the 

 Linncan Society of London. Tiie thorax is dark nicttillic 

 fjreen shaded with coppery, very acutely angulated at the sides 

 behind the middle, the disk with a large, shallow, strongly 

 punctured impression. The elytra are brownish coppery, 

 with the sutural area and lateral costie green and shining. 



Pu/ycesta karakura, Chevr. 



The type of this species is in the Museum. Mr. Saunders 

 in his Catalogue considered this a variety of depressa, but I 

 am inclined to give it specific ranl<. It is a much more 

 brilliant insect, more elongate, with the elytra more acumi- 

 nate ; the punctuation of the elytra is coarser and rather 

 less regular. 



Polycesta porcata, Lap., nee Fabr. 



This species is described from Guadaloupe. The figure 

 rc))resents it as a brighily coloured insect ; the abdomen is 

 s^aid to be blue. 



in M. Obcrtliiir's collection there is a specimen labelL'd 

 Guadaloupe irom Laporte's collection which has the abdomen 

 bright blue. It is the only specimen that I have ever seen 

 with a blue abdomen, and I suggest that it is almost certainly 

 the specimen described by Laporte ^■s, porcata. It is a colour 

 variety of karakara. The spe(,'iniens in M. Obeithiir's collec- 

 tion labelled P. porcata, L. & G., type^ are, from the locality- 

 labels and description, evidently not the species described by 

 ]>aporte ; tlicy are P. dcpressa, L, 



Polycesta depressa, Oliv., nee Linn. = 0/itjm, n. n. 



This species is said to be in the British Museum, and 

 there is in the Museum a very old specimen bearing the 

 name depressa which 1 believe is certainly that mentioned 

 by Olivier. It is a broad iusect, very fiat dorsally, of a 

 somewhat dull brownish coppery, with obscure green in 

 parts. It has all the costie of the elytra well marked, i. e. 

 each elytron has six dorsal costae, the second and fourth only 

 slightly more elevated than the others. 



The old specimens in the Museum are witliont locality, 

 bnt recent examples in the Museum and in M. Obcrtliiir's 

 collection are fjom Jamaica. 



