230 Mr. Edwiird Saunders* iJcscriptions of 



This species should follow rugodpninis, L. & G., which 

 it resembles in the form and style of its thorax. 



Hahcia pidiceps, E. S. 



Caput viride, antice cupreo-maculatum, vertice purpureo 

 notata. Thorax pupureo-fuscus, splendens, lineis tribus 

 impressis viridibus. Elytra purpureo-fusca, utrinque 

 sutura, macula semicirculari basali, macula prope medium, 

 maculisque duabus inter illam et apicem, impressis, 

 viridibus. Subtus viridis, punctata. 



Head green, punctured, with a narrow longitudinal im- 

 pression in front, with a purple spot on the vertex, and a 

 coppery spot in the depression between the eyes. Thorax 

 shining, purple brown, finely punctured, with the dorsal 

 line very deeply and widely, and a line on each side near 

 the margin, narrowly, impressed and bright green ; the 

 lateral impressions are very closely punctured, the lateral 

 margins themselves are also very narrowly green. Scu- 

 tellum green. Elytra punctate striate, of the same colour as 

 the thorax, each with the suture, a curved impression, 

 (broad at each end and narrow in the middle, starting from 

 the base and turning almost in a semicircle inwards 

 towards the suture) a kidney shaped one just about the 

 middle, a short stripe under the shoulder, and two round 

 spots, midway between the middle and the apex, bright 

 green and closely punctured. Sides denticulate posteriorly. 

 Beneath and legs bright green, punctured. 



Length, 6 lines ; breadth, 2f lines. 



Hab. Amazons. 



Allied to lO-invpressa. Chev., which it should follow. 



Hahcia Batcsii, E. S. 



La3te cupreofusca, thoracis linea dorsali lateribusque 

 viridibus. Elytris linea abbreviata suturali, utrinque vitta 

 ab humero ad medium extensa, ibique angulata, maculis 

 duabus post medium, lineaque apicali, impressis, viridibus. 

 Subtus viridis, punctata. 



Bright coppery brown, with purple reflections. Sides of 

 the face above the mouth, dorsal line and sides of the 

 thorax, scutellum, and a short line on the suture of the 

 elytra below it, a line on each elytron, extending from the 



