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basally; mcso- nnd metafemora very feebly dilated; protarsi feebly dilated j an­
tc.unae as long as or slightly longer than body, scape slightly Ie:;;; robust, not grooved
basally.
LENGTH 13.5-17 mm.; width 5-7.5 mm.
Holotype.-Male ; San Bernardino, Paraguay ; (K. Fiebrig) j
[U.S.N.M. number 57213).
Allotype.-Female ; topotypic (K. Fiebrig) ; [U.S.N.M.).
Paratypes.-Three females ; Cachoerinha, Paran(l, Brazil, November,
1931, December, 1940 ; (A. Maller) j [L. Lacey]. Female ;
Minas Geraes, Brazil; [A.N.S.P.]. Female ; Sao Paulo, Brazil ;
[A.N.S.P.]. Female; Horqueta, Paraguay, December 6, 1933 ; (Alberto
Schultze) ; [O.A.S.]. li'emale ; San Bernardino, Paraguay ;
(K. Fiebrig) ; [U.S.N.M.]. Female j Chaco Territory, about 150
miles west of Puerto Casado, Paraguay, January, 1935; (A.
Schulze) j [L. Lacey].
l\fidamus santarcmensis Dillon and Dillon, spec. nov.
PLATE IX, FIGURE II.
Distinguished from 1l1. hecabe by the elytra being more attenuate
apically ; the body color much paler; antennal third segment
not only pale in pubescence basally but also in surface color, and
more strongly sinuate ; elyt,l'al median pale fascia less distinct ;
and tarsal claw-segment testaceous basally.
FEMALE. Elongate-ovate, robust, subcylindrieal ; reddish-brown, elytra some­
what pler; entirely clothed with rather thin, pale fulvous-gray pubescence, tinged
irregularly with browu. Head with eye margined posteriorly with denser fulvous­
gray pubescence. Pronotum maculate with denser lulvous-grtly on each discal
tuberele and above hind angles. ScutclIlUu indistinetly fulvous-gray margin.9.te.
EIytra variegated with fulvous-gray on b:lsc, on apic:l1 third, along suture, alld
medially, where it takes the form of an il'rcguI:lr, oblique fascia. running from sides
before middle to behind middle of suture. Body beneath light reddish-brown,
rather densely covered with pale fulvous-gray pubescence, sparsely mottled with
brown; toward sides with a row of indistinct maeulae of denser pubescence. Legs
dark reddish-brown, fulvous-gray pubescent; me:o- and metafemora broadly an­
nulatc medially with brownish; w.rsal claw segment indistinctly rose[ltc [It base.
Antennae fuscous, b.'1SCS of segments from third broadly roseate, that o fifth, sev­
enth, and nintb more n3rrowly so; scnpc fulvous-gray pubescent, tinged with brown
:lpically, remaining segments fuscous pubescent, the pale b:lscs hoary.
Head minutely, densely punctate and with a number of fine punctures jnter
spersed, a fine median impressed line from occiput to epistonlJlj front slightly higher
than wide, not narrowed above, between antennal tubercles narrowly concave, min­
utely, den.sely punctate and with a large number of fine punctures interspersd,