new Sjiecii's iif IhslL-vi'lx. 227 



laloril)US puuctatis ; olytris violaceis vol purpurois, striis dorsalibus 

 I et 4 paruin ahbreviatis, 2-li suturaliijue intogri^ ; prosterno 

 bistriato ; medostenio raarjLjinato, stria trarisvcrsa nulla ; tibiis 

 antuis 4-dc'ntatia. 

 L. 2j mill. 



Oval, convex, body and legs bhic-black ; head cyaneous ; 

 thorax and elytra rich dark viol<'t, changing to purple in 

 certain liglits ; the head moderately excavated, striate over 

 the eyes only, punctuation much scattered ; the thorax with 

 a distinct impression behind the anterior angle, stria com- 

 plete, punctate on the lateral border, with finer points ex- 

 tending towards the disk and gradually becoming less dense, 

 scutellar puncture minute ; the elytra, striie, outer humeral 

 wanting, inner very short, basal, but clear, 1 shortened well 

 before the apex, 2-3 complete and almost joining apically, 4 

 a little longer than tlie fir.st, 5 wanting, sutural complete and 

 |)araliel to the suture, apical border sparsely |)unctured ; the 

 propygidium is clearly but sparsely punctured, the punctures 

 are chiefly at the base ; the pygidium is very minutely punc- 

 tured and the points are more evenly scattered ; the pro- 

 sternum is rather wide, keel impunctate, anterior lobe with a 

 few scattered punctures, bistriate, striai diverging at either 

 end, but widening out most anteriorly ; the mesosternum, 

 marginal stria ratlier fine, {)OSferior suture visible, but there 

 is no transverse stria ; the first abdominal segment has a 

 conspicuous bent stria on either side ; the tarsi are dull 

 brown and the anterior tibiaj are 4-dentate, the two central 

 teeth are widest apart. 



Most of the brightly coloured species of this genus are not 

 convex ; but this and F. varicotor, Mars., are the two excep- 

 tions known at present. 



Hub. Brazil {ex coll. Barton). 



Phelister festivus. 



Epierus festivtM, Lew. Ann. & Majr. Nat. Hist. ser. 7, vol. ii. p. 171 

 (lfe9dj. 



By an oversight 1 omitted in my description to refer to 

 the tibiae of this species. The anterior tibiae are 3-dentate, 

 the two nearest to the tarsi are somewhat close together, the 

 third is further apart ; this form of the tibia and the some- 

 what curved tarsal grooves show that it belongs to the 

 genus I kelisier. 



Phelister ckapadce, sp. n. 



Orbicularis, convex iusculus, nigcr, nitidus, supra punctulatus ; an- 

 tcnnid pedibusque rufis ; fronte impressa stria lato intorrupta ; 



