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LAWRENCE S. DILLON AND ELIZABETH S. DILLON 75
Head with front briefly streaked with grayish pubescence each side of median
line near middle; eye narrowly outlined with the same color. Pronotum with it
short streak of fulvous-gray on apical and hind angles. Scutcllum brown, lateral
edges margined with pale fulvous-gray. Elytra very inconspicuously mottled,
more distinctly so on apical portion, medially with a very broad triangular fascia
of denser fulvous pubescence, the base of which extends along the sidc margin from
before middle to behind apical fourth, the apex nearly attaining the suture. Body
beneath dark reddish-brown, medially hoary pubescent, laterally pale fulvous-gray
pubescent, sparsely mottled with dark brown; abdomen medially covered with very
short, silky, hoary pubescence, allowing the dark brown integument to show
through, laterally broadly vittate with fulvous, the vittae narrower on first stemite
and not extending onto fifth. Legs fuscous, sparsely hoary pubescent; femora
coarsely mottled with brown, metafemora anteriorly and other femora on apices,
fulvous maculate. Antennae fuscous, basal quarter of third segment dccp reddish,
of following segments pale yellow; thinly clothed with brownish pubescence, pale
portions hoary pubescent; seape pale fulvous-gray, mottled with brown.
Head minutely, densely punctate above, with a median impressed line from
occiput nearly to epistorna ; front narrowly concave betwccn antenna! tubercles,
finely and rather sparsely punctate, laterally and below densely, deeply, and
rather rugosely so; genae somewhat elongate, vertical, fincly scabrosc ; eye with
lower lobo oblong, not quite equal in heigbt t.o gena ; antennal tubercles feebly ele­
vated, not armed at apex. Pronotum strongly transverse; sides straight, tapering to
apex, behind middle with a broad, distinct, obtuse tubercle; apical and basal
transverse sulcus shallow, the latter coalescent with the deeper, lateral oblique
ones; disk finely and sparsely punctate on basal half, at middle with an elongate
triangular t.ubcrcle, each side slightly tumid and with two small but distinct tuber­
cles. Scutellum transverse; sides straight, attenuate apically ; apex broadly rounded,
impressed at middle and elevated (but not produced) each side. Elytra wi.th
sides straight, tapering gradually to apex; apices separately rounded ; disk at base
slightly gibbose, coarsely irregularly punctate, more sparsely so toward humeri, from
anterior margin of median fuscin to apex punctures fine and sparse; hWIleri prom­
inent, anterior margin strongly oblique, straight, the angle obtuse, with a rounded,
prominent tubercle; sides IC8l coarsely and more sparscly punctate t.han disk.
Presternum simple, rather broad. Procoxae tumid behind, anteriorly with a
broad, but feebly elevated, obtuse tubercle; femora clavate, profemora not rugose
beneath; metatibiae densely seto:e, not expanded. Fifth sternite nearly twice length
of fourth, apex retuse, broadly and very feebly impressed. Antennae about as
long as body (from eighth wanting), sparsely fimbriate (to apex?) ; scape slender,
slightly capitate on apical half; third segment a little longer than first, distinctly
biflexuose ; rest gradually shorter.
LENGTH 16.5-17 mm.; width 7.5-7.6 mm.
Holotype.-Female j Colombia; [C.M.J_
Paratypes.-Female ; topotypic; [C.M.]. Female ; Barro Colorado
Island, Canal Zone, June 23, 1924; (N. Balli,s) ; [M.C.Z.].