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face longitudinally confluent-strigose, partially clothed with 

 silvery pile. Elytra short, cuneiform ; apex obtuse, sparingly 

 punctured, scarcely shining ; basal half violet-black, apical 

 half tawny ; tip convex and somewhat darker ; a patch of 

 gold-coloured hairs on each side of the scutellum. Abdomen 

 fulvous, not disproportionate to the metasternum, or differing 

 much in form according to sex. Legs pitchy black, hairy ; 

 hind legs slightly elongated ; tibiae with a dense brush of 

 blackish hairs on the outer side of their apical half. 



The following species, unknown to me, belong possibly to 

 this section : — 



8. Char is Erato ^ Newm. Entom. p. 21. 

 Brazil. 



9. Char is Mneme, Newm. I. c. p. 90. 

 Brazil. 



10. Charts Melefe, Newm. /. c. p. 91. 

 Brazil. 



The description in some respects applies to Tomopferus lati- 

 cornis (Klug), but it is not sufficiently complete to enable one 

 to decide. 



II. Elytra narrowed and strongly divergent towards the apex (reach- 

 ing nearly to the apex of the second ahdominal segment). Thorax 

 subcylindrical. 



11. Charis Aglaia, Newm. Entom. p. 22. 

 Brazil {coll. TV. W. Saunders and H. W. Bates). 

 This species forms a transition to the genus Phygopoda. 



Genus Phygopoda, Thomson. 



Thomson, Syst. Ceramb. p. 164. 



Differs from Charis by the great length of the hind legs and 



the more abruptly clavate hind femora. In the smaller and 



narrower thorax and the narrowed and divergent apices of the 



elytra it agrees with section II. of that genus. 



1. Phygopoda albitarsis^ Klug. 



Stenopterus alhif arsis, Klug, Eutom. Bras. Specim. alter, p. 57, t.xliv. f.l2, 

 Phygopoda fugax, Thonis. I. c. p. 164 (?). 



Thomson's description of his Ph. fugax agrees with small 

 examples of Ph. albitarsis, except the omission of mention of 

 the smooth raised dorsal line of the thorax. 



R. Amazons. Abundant occasionally on flowers. 



