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angles obtusely eleva.ted, medially deeply norohed. Elytra with sides nearly
straight, gradually narrowed to apices, which are separately rounded; disk sub­
gibbose at base, entire basal half densely, irregularly, and coarsely punctate, the
punctures finer and a. little more sparse behind middle, obsolcte only at very apex;
bumeri slightly promincnt, anterior margin arcuate, slightly oblique, angle with a
broad feebly elevated tubercle, pooteriorly without trace of carina. Prosternum
simple. Procoxae subglobosc, tumid posteriorly, not tuberculnte Ilutcriorly; femora
robust, clavate, profemora less strongly clavate but stouter basally, not at all
rugose; meta tibiae somewhnt expanded apically and densely setose there. Fifth
slerni!e half again as long ns fourth, apex broadly emarginate, with a distinct
median imprcs.sed line, and a broad triangular impression on apical half. Antennae
as long as body, distinctly fimbriate beneath to sixth segment; scape slender,
gradually clavate from middle; third segment equal to firs in length, strongly
bisinuate; rest gradually shorter, the fourth arcuate, eleventh tapering to apex.
LENGTH 18.5 mm.; width 9 mm.
l'ype locality.-Eg{t.
BRAZIL: 9; Teffe, December, 1924; [A.M.N. H.J .
Charoides distincta Dillon and Dillon, spec. nov.
PLATE IV, PlOunE 15.
Resembles C. picticornis somewhat in sculpturing and body
form. From this species it is different in having the general
pubescence above fulvous i elytra with a distinct, broad, oblique
band of dark brown, followed by an indistinct, broken line of gray­
ish pubescence i antennae with third segment on basal half and
bases of following segments pale yellow annUlate, the annulations
of all distal segments nearly equal in extent ; scutellum less strongly
elevated at sides ; elytra with basal gibbosities more distinct ; and
proDotum with discal tumescences less distinctly subdivided by an
oblique impression. Moreover, the third segment of antennae is
distinctly longer than scape, and the claw segment of tarsi is Dlore
broadly piceous at apex.
FEMALE. Elongate-ovate, robust, convex; dark reddish-brown, hcad [uscous ;
the entire body above densely fulvous 1omentose. Head with an indistinct brown
mark each side of median line and very indistinctly mottled. Pronotwn immacu­
late. Elytra indistinctly, broadly varied with fulvous-gray, each with a broad,
somewhat interrupted, dark brown band running from well behind humerus obli­
quely to before middle at S\lture, behind this an indistinct broken, strongly undula­
ting line of pale grayish pubescence, more distinct toward suture, apical third of
disk with scattered, irregular patches of dark brown and short strenks of pale gray­
ish pubescence. Body beneath dark reddish-brown, thinly covered with fulvous
pubescence; abdomen fuscous, medially sparsely clothed with short, hoary-gray
pubescence, laterally broadly vittate with fulvous, on third and fourth sternit-es the