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LAWRENCE S. DILLON AND ELIZABETH S. DILLON 179
with scape fuscous, rest dark brown, entirely thinly covered with dark brown puiJe:s..
ccnee, fourth and fifth segments (rest lacking) narrowly gray-annulate basally.
I-lead minutely, densely punctate, with a. median impressed line from occiput
to epistoma; front concave between ."nlennal tubercles, very minutely, densely
punct."te, with large punctures interspersed, especially on lower half; genae slightly
transverse, sculpture same as that of front; eye with lower lobe broodly oblong,
height one and one-third that of gena; antennni tubercles widely separated, promi­
nent, at apex with a short, robust horn directed anteriorly. Pronotum transverse,
sides feebly arcuate, narrowed anteriorly, behind middle with a feebly elevated
tubercle ending in a. short, obtuse process; with an apical and two basal transverse
sulci, the inner one of the latter shallow, oblique over lateral tubercles ; disk with
B feebly raised, broad tumid area at middle, either side with two ,'ery feeble tumes­
cences. Scutellum very transverse, sides nearly straight, oblique; apex very broadly
rounded or subtruncate. Elytrn slightly tapering to apex, apices separately
rounded; disk on basal third moderately densely granulate-punctate, these punc­
tures sometimes forming rugosities, rest of disk with scattered punctures (in the
dark brown mnculn.e) ; humeri feebly promincnt., anterior margin only slightly ob­
lique, angle wjt·h a small tubercle; sides behind humeri rugose on basal third. Pro­
stcrnum broadly widened behind middle; mesosternal process cmarginate at apex.
Procoxae prominent, anteriorly armed with :.i long, feebly curved uncus ; profemora
feebly clavate basally, after apical third more strongly so, Oll entire basal two-thirds
strongly transversely rugose. Fift.h sternite only slightly longer than fourth, apex
feebly cmnrginate. Antennae lacking after fiJth segment, fimbriate beoeath except
on seape; scape /!bort, capitate, basaliy beneath with four or five deep grooves ; third
segment nearly twice length of scape, feebly arcuate.
LENGTH 24 mrn.; width 9.5 mm.
Holotyve.-Male i no locality data; [A.N.S.P. number 8251].
Tybalmia pixe Dillon and Dillon, spec. nov.
PLATE VII, FIGURE 14.
Distinguished from '1'. pupillata by the humeri having only a
single tubercle; antennal tubercles more remote; sides of front
almost parallel i elytrn with the median dark macula Jess distinct,
preceded anteriorly by a broad, yellowish-gray border, base of disk
not striped j and pronotal lateral tubercles with a more distinct
process.
FEMALE. Elongatc-ovate, rather robust, subcylindrical; black, elytra piceous.
Head and pronotum dark brown pubescent, slightly varied with fulvous-grny; ver­
tcx indistinctly striped each side of median line with dark brown; front cach side
and pronotal disk medially, vittnte with fulvous-gray. Scutellum dark brown pubes­
cent, margined with brighter fulvous-gray, apically more broadly so. Elytra on
basal third dark brown and fulvous-gray v3riegated, rest of disk fulvous-gray, with
very small, sparse, rounded maculae of dark brown ; just behind middle of cach
elytron ." small, more or less round, dark brown macula, its anterior margin indis-