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OIle and one-fourth times body length, scapc much more slender, gradually clavate,
basal grooves feeble, third segment feebly bisinuate.
LENGTH 25-28 mm.; width 9.5-11 mm.
Type locality.-Ohontales, Nicaragua.
Distribution.-Central America.
PANAMA : a, ; Chiriqui, Panama; [A.N.S.P.].
Tybalmia tetrops Bates
Tybalmia tet1'ops Bates, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1872, p. 2{)I.
"More elongate than Tybalmia pupiUata; elytra on each side of disk with two
maculi placed transversel)" anteriorly vaguely fishy marginate. Elongate oblong,
moderately convex, ochraceous-fuscous, vertex with four black-fnseouE vittae; elytra
oblong, posteriorly slightly narrowed above, with basal third densely, not deeply
punctate, intennixed with sparso granules. Length 13 lines; female. Febas, Upper
Amazons. Near Tybalmia mydas Lucas."
The above is the original description.
Tyhalmia funeraria Bates
FLATE VII, FIGURE 10.
Tybalmia /uneraria Bates, BioI. Centr-Amer., Col. v, 1880, p. 122.
Quite distinct from all other members of the genus in tIle macu­
lation of elytra ; these have a large, rounded spot behind middle,
which is preceded by an elongate, triallgu.lar, whitish one attaining
basal quarter. Moreover, the humeri are nearly straight on au­
terior margin and the pronotal disk is very smooth.
1f .... LE. Elongate, rather robust, subcylindrical; head black, pronotum and
elytra very dark reddish-brown; entirely fulvous-gray pubescent. Head with two
short, dark brown vittae above, one each side of median lin, widest at occiput,
tapering but not converging anteriorly; front varied with dark brown pubescence,
margined with fulvous each side; eye.> narrowly margined. posteriorly with fulvous.
Fronotum with two transverse rows of dark brown maculae, six in the anterior row,
five in the posterior one, all rather indistinct and rounded, between the seco'od and
third, and fourth and fifth macula. of apical row is a small, rounded spot of fulvous.
Scutellum margined at apex and sides with fulvous. Elytra on basal quarter with
many, small, dark brown maculae, these much confluent, each behind middle with a
large, more or less rounded, dark brown macula, anteriorly broadly, triangularly
bordered with whitish, extending to basal quarter and with scattered brown spots
within it, posteriorly in the large spot is a small, round" fulvous one interrupting
its margin; apical third tends to be brighter iulvous pubescent, with numerous dark