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thorax punctured, the latter small, and the punctures rather coarse : elytra 

 ample, rather deeply crenate-striate, with the interstices smooth, and clothed 

 with hair-like scales of variable hue': legs entirely xvdo-testaceous, with the 

 ■femora slightly clavate, the posterior ones armed with a minute tooth : antennas 

 pale testaceous, with the club dusky. 

 Extremely variable in the colour of the scales, and in some examples— probably 

 immature— the ground colour is pitchy-red. 



Not very abundant within the metropolitan district, frequenting 

 the flowers of various trees. " (Near Swansea) not common." — - 

 L. W. Dillwyn^ Esq. " Davidson's-bank." — T. C. Heysham, Esq. 



Sp. 11. flavipes. Niger, squamulis viridi-sericeis, pilisquefuscis tectus, antennis 

 pedibusque pallide testaceis, fem,oribus omnibus muticis. (Long. corp. 3 — 4 

 lin.) 



Cu. flavipes. De Geer.—Vo. flavipes. Steph. Catal 179. iVo. 1836. 



Black, densely clothed ivith brilliantly glossy grass-green or hlui^-green scales, 

 and short fuscous hairs : rostrum very short : head rather large, eyes globose, 

 brown : thorax very short, transverse, finely granulated : elytra ample, punc- 

 tate-striate, the interstices smooth, squamous, and having a few short griseous- 

 brown hairs : legs elongate, slender, entirely testaceous or flavescent, except 

 the apex of the claws, which is black : antennoe also entirely testaceous, and 

 very slender. 



Common in the neighbourliood of London. " Not uncommon 

 (near Swansea)." — L. W. Dillwyn^ Esq. " Bottisham." — Rev. L. 

 Jenyns. 



Sp. 12. speciosus. Niger, impubis, squamulis viridi-sericeis tectus, antennarum, 

 basi pedibusque rufo-testaceis, elytris punctato-sulcatis. (Long. corp. 3 — 4 lin.) 

 Po. speciosus. Steph. Catal. U2. No. 1836*. Ctirtis, yi.pl. 278. 



Black, glabrous, densely clothed with brilliant silky-green scales — sometimes 

 tinted with bluish : rostrum moderate, with an impression at the base : head 

 moderate : thorax slightly elongate, with a faint dorsal carina, the disc punc- 

 tured : elytra oblong, rather deeply punctate-striated, or somewhat sulcate, 

 the sulci naked, the interstices densely clothed with scales : legs entirely rufo- 

 testaceous: femora unarmed: antennue moderately slender^ pale testaceous, 

 with the club deep black, or dusky. 



Excepting in having the club of the antennae black, and the disc of the thorax 

 not transversely convex, this elegant species closely resembles Po. corruscus of 

 Germar. 



This beautiful insect was discovered by my friend the Rev. G. T. 

 Rudd, near Kimpton, in Hants, and to him I am indebted for a fine 

 series. 



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