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light brown. Pronotum more distinctly brown towards sides, base, and in middle of
disk. Scutellum grayjh, with a brown macula on apex. Elytra brown pubescent,
strongly variegated with pale iulvous-gray and with a narrow, indist.inct. fascia of
tho latler color strongly oblique from humerus to hehind middle of suture, then
slightly reJle.xed and extended to apex, quite as in fl. degenerlJ,. Body bene!Lth
fuscous or dark reddish-brown, irregularly covered with pale grayish pubeilcence,
densely, finely, and rather indistinctly mottled all over with brown; abdomen simi­
lar, with an indistinct vitta of whitish each side, the interior edge of each vitm on
basal four sternites represented by a row of whitish maculae. Legs fuscous, pale
grayish pubescent, mottled with brown; tarsi willi claw segment same liS rest of
tarsi. Antennae fuseous, covered with grayish pubescence, the first five or six eg­
ments mottled with brown, apices of all segments somewhat tinged with brown.
Hea.d minutely, densely alutaceous, with a median line from occiput nearly to
epistorna; front elongate, feebly narrower above, narrowly concave between an·
tellnal tubercles, disk finely, densely alutaceous and sparsely, coarsely, obsoletely
punctate; gcna elongate, vertical, sculpturing as on front but coarse punctures
more distinct and denser ; eye with lower lobe rather Mrrowly oblong, slightly
taller than gena; antennal tubercles robust, prominent" slightJy separated, distinctly
armed at apex with a robust., obtuse tooth. Pronotum slightly transverse, about
one-third wider at base than long; sides unanned, nearly straight, strongly tapering
to apex; apical transverse sulcus feeble, wHow, sinuous, basal one more distinct,
deeper, coalescent with the broad lateral oblique ones; disk very finely, sparsely
punctate basally, entirely tumid, at middle with a feeble, elongate tubercle, each
side more strongly tum.id, the- tumescence traversed by an oblique, linear impression.
Scutellum strongly transverse; sidCil straight, oblique; apex arcuate. Elytra with
sides broadly arcuate, slightly attenuate to apices, which are separately rounded;
basal gibbosity broad, feebly elevated, nearly wanting, disk rather closely, moder­
ately cooTsely punctate, punctures behind middle finer, denser, before apex obsolete;
humeri slightly projecting, anterior margin straight, distinctly oblique, allgle
with an elongate, curved tubercle which is prolonged onto disk posteriorly into a
short, fiat carina. Prosternum simple, rather wide, expanded gradually from apex
to base; mesosterna! process slightly longer than wide, gradually expanded posteri­
orly, ape;...: moderately bilobcdly emarginate. Fifth sternite much longer than fourth,
feebly emarginate at apex. Procoxae with a large, strongly curved uncus anteriorly ;
femora. rather robust, clavate, posterior ones successively shorter, profemora more
robust, fecbly clavate, transversely rugose on basal half of upper and lower faces;
metatibiae rather expanded apiCflIlYi protarsi dilated. Antennae more than one
and one-half times body length, apical segments slender, segments Olle to five with
Ilo short fringe beneath; scape rather robust, nea.rly attaining middle of pronotum,
slightly clavate on apical half, basal half on outer side and beneath coarsely rugose;
tJurd segment one-third longer than first, distinctly sinuous; fourth equal to first,
rest shorter, subequal, eleventh slightly longer, acicu1ar.
LE:s"GTH 14 mm.; width 5.9 mm.
1'ype localities.-Chontales, Nicaragua; Bugaba, Panama.
Distribution.-Central America.
NICARAGUA: ; Great Falls, Pis Pis River, 10 miles N.W. of Eden, April 25, 1922;
(Wharton Huber) ; [AN.8.P.] .