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Thorax smooth ; elytra brilliantly red cupreous with blue margin with a 
marginal and sometimes a humeral dot,. front hairy......... -pulchra Say. 
Thorax slightly wrinkled at the sides; elytra with coarse but not densely 
placed punctures, which become rapidly finer towards the tip, where they 
1¢ are obsolete, black without markings, tip not serrulate; labrum one toothed, 
rome Ala ia aahde ee etna eM aia aiealiad ei Lass Metra -++e-- Aornii Schaupp. 
Thorax sparsely and slightly rugose; elytra bluish green, not deeply punc— 
tured, smooth towards base, with a humeral dot- and a short, transverse 
ins marginal line, finely,serrulate at tip, front hairy......... -pimeriana Lec. 
3 '  Nermal markings,* the humeral ones often wanting or broken. 
Front striate, glabrous, thorax finely rugose, strongly impressed; elytra strongly 
punctured, finely serrulate, green with marginal, anteapical, apical and 
sometimes a discal dot, body beneath sparsely pilose ..... sexguttata Fab. 
Blue or green im naculate violacea Fab.; green with humeral posthumeral, 
anteapical and apical dots and a scarcely sinuate, somewhat abbreviated 
ak middle band patruela Dej.; black with same markings consentanea De]. 
Front striate, pilose with erect hairs, thorax short, somewhat flattened, granulate 
ruyose, deeply impressed ; elytra moderately punctured, less so near the 
margin, which is usually broad greei shining, punctures elevated; slightly 
serrulate at tip; body beneath with long white hair, dense on the breast, 
sparser on the abdomen. Surface reddish cupreous, with an oblique scar- 
cely sinuate band, not reaching the outer margin and an apical dot...... 
mi é _ purpurea Oliv. 
; ‘Black with the same markings Audubdonti Lec. 
Green with same markings graminea Schaupp. Green or blackish with a 
Boiss! submarginal stripe dilated behind the humeri and before the apex anda 
Or middle band little curved or obtusely angulated cimarrona Lec.; green 
tinged with cupreous, humeral, posthumeral, anteapical and apical dots 
with the middle band suddenly bent and more prolonged behind decemno- 
\ tata Say; purple with same dots, and a sinuate middle band limbalis Lec.; 
! black with same markings spreta Lec.; cupreous, the middle band less sud- 
A Signy 5 denly bent ameena Lec.; head and thorax green or blue, elytra cupreous, 
with a very short middle band and an apical dot splendida Hentz. 
GROUP 3. 
Thorax convex, not margined, subquadrate; palpi of (J usually pale at base; elytra 
i ea elytra convex. 
Normal markings complete, broad, connected by the white margin. Robust large 
\ species; labrum moderately large, three toothed, prominent in the middle. 
Front, thorax and body very hairy. 
Elytra red cupreous, brillant, middle band obtusely bent........formoga Say. 
\ Metallic brown, same markings, middle band more deflexed generosa Dej.; 
1ed cupreous, more slender and convex, middle band more perpendicular 
venusia Lec, 
4 * 4. e. a humeral lunule, a middle band more or less bent and descending inter- 
nally and an apical curved line usually bent inward at its anterior part. 
