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finely, sparsely punctate, the front (cf) very near the eyes closely, 

 strongly setigero-punctate but not in the female; clypeus (cf ) large, 

 subquadrate, opaque, red-brown, one-half to two-thirds wider than 

 long, the sides becoming parallel basally, the angles rounded and 

 the apex broadly, feebly arcuate, the edges narrowly reflexed, the 

 apex but little more, the surface very finely scabrous except medio- 

 basally, or ( 9 ) shorter, otherwise similar, except that the surface 

 is shining and more coarsely, intricately rugulose very evenly through- 

 out; prothorax (cf) less than one-half, or ( 9 ) fully three-fifths, 

 wider than long, with evenly rounded sides, gradually converging 

 apically, having two broad externally medio-prominent black vittae 

 from apex to base; punctures minute and sparse, mingled at the 

 sides only with many coarse deep punctures bearing very short 

 thick black setae (cf ) , or ( 9 ) without trace of such coarse punctures 

 or setae, the punctures laterally being only a little larger than medi- 

 ally; elytra (cf) oblong, a fifth or sixth longer than wide, feebly 

 inflated and broadly rounded posteriorly and barely at all wider than 

 the prothorax, or ( 9 ) inflated strongly at the sides behind the middle 

 and there fully a third wider than the prothorax, the edge below the 

 irregular swelling with a long, shallow and very even sinus, with 

 black adjoining surface and with the surface posterior thereto min- 

 utely, densely sculptured and opaque; in both sexes the elytral 

 maculation is nearly as in stictica, except that the inner of the sub- 

 basal spots is a long slender oblique line from the middle of the 

 base nearly to and on the middle of the suture, which is not darker 

 in color except at the fine sutural beading; punctures very fine, sparse, 

 in great part linearly arranged, stronger and with the series more 

 impressed in the female; toward the sides and suture there are some 

 slightly larger, widely spaced serial punctures bearing very short 

 setae, largely wanting in the female; pygidium (cf ) alutaceous and 

 with small asperate punctures bearing long close-set fulvous hairs, 

 or ( 9 ) smooth, feebly alutaceous, with very minute sparse punctures 

 bearing very small inconspicuous hairs. Male with the third and 

 fourth joints of the anterior tarsi strigilate at apex, the produced apex 

 of the fourth with a particularly large and dense area of strigilation, 

 the fifth joint very deeply concave beneath throughout its length, 

 not strigilate at all at the bottom of the concavity but with its thin 

 outer wall bearing some such close-set lines along its lower edge. 

 Length (cf 1 9 ) 13.5-15.0 mm.; width 6.3-7.5 mm. Female smaller 

 and narrower than the male. Honduras (San Pedro Sula). Five 

 examples *multiplex n. sp. 



Male with the sides of both front and clypeus more coarsely punctate 

 than the median parts and setose; female without the lateral coarse 

 punctures or setae and with the clypeus uniformly and rather coarsely 

 though shallowly punctato-rugose (signata section) 4 



4 Pronotal vittae with their outer outline evenly arcuate. Body (cf ) 

 oblong, subparallel, moderately convex, strongly shining; head black 

 at base, the remainder pale, the clypeus one-half wider than long, 

 the sides becoming parallel at base, rounding and feebly converging 

 anteriorly, the apex broadly arcuate; suture fine and almost per- 



