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so'each side. Scutellum confluently punctured each side and behind, 
the surface beyond the disk a little broken and obsoletely ridged, the 
lateral edge waved, very moderately sinuated at base. Corium broad, 
distinctly, approximately bistriate, densely punctured, excepting the 
interior margin. Pectus black. Venter finely punctured. Legs blue- 
black with a tinge of piceous ; tarsi testaceous. 
Length 5 millim. Humeral breadth dd millim. 
Hoh. California. Dr. Greo. H. Horn. 
Fam. PACHYCORID^. 
AUGOCOEIS, Burm. 
A. Poeyi, n. sp. 
Blackish-purple, the upper surface with large, irregular wrinkles; 
form rather more slender than in A. pallidus. Head blackish-purple, 
polished, each side with several irregular impressions, sparingly punc¬ 
tured and rugulose, lateral margins recurved, sinuated; tylus promi¬ 
nent, stout, projecting much beyond the lateral lobes; bucculae white ; 
antennae black; rostrum piceous, pale upon the middle, reaching be¬ 
yond the middle of the venter. Thorax finely but not very closely 
punctured, the humeral angles more acute than in A. pallidus^ Beauv.; 
the anterior and lateral margins, a broad longitudinal complete stripe 
upon the middle and a large spot at the sides anteriorly yellowish red. 
Anterior and posterior edge of the postpectus white. Scutellum very 
rugulose, punctured more closely than the thorax, the exterior edge 
all around white, the surface with three large trifarious reddish spots; 
the basal ones placed at each corner, with one branch running to the 
exterior margin, another running to the base, and the third running 
inwardly; the apical spot with one branch running to the apex, and 
the other two branches running obliquely outwards, upon the disk is 
a longitudinal streak of the same color. Venter orange yellow, finely 
punctured, the sides with a series of sub-quadrate black spots, the spots 
upon the genital segment, a large round one on the preceding segment, 
a smaller round one each side of the second segment, and two smaller 
ones behind the disk, also black; the penultimate segment margined 
posteviorly with white. Lateral margins of the pectus reddish-white. 
Legs blackish-violet, the femora beneath and at base lurid. 
Length lo millim. Humeral breadth 7 millim. 
Hah. Cuba. Prof. Poey. Cabinet of the Entomological Society. 
