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dark brown pubescence; lateral margin at middle and at apical third with irregular
maculae of white which do not attain the discal fasciae. Body beneath fuscous,
rather thinly covered with bright fulvousgray or pale rosyfulvous pubescence
somewhat mottled with brownish; abdomen medially black or piclX'lus, sparsely
and irregularly honry pubescent, laterally broadly vittate with pale rosyfulvous,
the vittne more or less broken into maC\llae on each sternite, much nurrowed on
first sternite, less strongly o on se(!ond, on fifth ne.:trly subdivided transversely into
two maculae each side. Legs fuscous; profemora irregularly gray pubescent,
coarsely mottled with brownish, mcso and metafemora distinctly covered with pale
rosyfulvous pubescence, bro..'l.dly annulate with brown at middle; tibiao and L'l.I'si
sparsely hoary pubescent, the former annulate at middle with rosy or hoary pubescence;
claw segment of tarsi black, its basal half rosyyellowisb. Antennae
fuscous, basal quarter of all segments from third r05yyellowish; sca])C covered
with fulvous-gray or pale rosy-fulvous pu\)Cscence, mottled with brown, remaining
segments dark brown pubescent, the pale bases thinly hoary pubescent.
Head above with punctatioll obscurred by pubescencc, a median line from
occiput nearly to epistorna; front broadly concave between antennal tubercles,
minutely, densely punctate, without trace of larger punctures, feebly nnd broadly
impressed above clypcus; genne vertical, pubescent, mi nutely and densely punctate,
with tl few scattered, couse, shallow punctures; eye with lower lobe oblong, not
quite equal in height to gena; antennal tubercles rather prominent, more or less
remote, not produced at apex. Pranotum trnnsverse, sides nearly stmight, slightly
narrower apically, behind middle with a broad, fcebly elevated tubercle, at apex
of which is a short tooth-like process; apical transverse sulcus feeblc, basal one
deeper, interrupted each side of middle, coalescent with lateral obliquc sulci ; disk
with five prominent, elongate tubercles, successively more robust from middle one
to lateral ones, the latter distinctly oblique, base not visibly pUllctate. Scutellum
transverse; sides straight, strongly oblique; apex broadly retuse, the angles slightly
elevated but not produced. Elytrn slightly narrowed tn apices, which are separately
rounded; each dik at middle towards base slightly gibbose, entire b..'l.sal
half sparsely moderately punctate broadly and more densely so fllong suture, punc
tures behind middle finer and gradually obsolete to apex; humeri slightly projecting,
anterior margin straight, strongly oblique, angle with a moderate-size,
rounded tubercle, from which rUIlS a carina posteriorly and slightly obliquely
almost to middle; sides irregularly pUllctaoo. Prosternum with a transverse process
between coxae. Procoxae globose, feebly tubcrculate anteriorly; femora cla
vate, profcmora not rugose; metatibiae marc strongly expanded and more setosc
than the others . Fifth sternite twice as long liS fourth, apex truncate, !l. broad
shallow impression on apical half. Antennae liS long as body, distinctly fimbriate
beneath to fifth segment, a. few following segments with setae at t.heir apices;
seape elongate, slender, apicllI two-fifths suddenly capitate; third segment as long
as first, strongly bisinuate; rest grndually shorter ..
LeNGTH 13.5 mm.; width 6.2 mm.
Holotype.-Femalej Caclmela, Bolivia, March; (W. M. Mann) ;
[U.S.N.M. number 57216] .