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This specimen fully agrees with the original description and figure. 

 As far as we are aware the two localities given above are all those 

 known for this striking and peculiar genus and species. 



AgTOeciinsB. 

 Paralobaspis personata n. sp. (PI. II, figs. 44, 45.) 



Differing from P. picta,*^ from Ecuador, the genotype and only 

 previously described species of the genus, in the shorter pronotum 

 and shorter and more arcuate ovipositor, the much shorter tegmina, 

 in the coloration of the mouthparts and the face, the latter being solid 

 black in the present species, in the face being almost without impressed 

 punctations, in the generally unicolorous pronotum, in the unicolorous 

 prosternal spines, in the more unicolorous limbs and in the fewer 

 spines on the ventro-cephalic margins of the cephalic and median 

 femora. 



Type: 9 ; Para, State of Para, Brazil. (C. F. Baker.) [Acad. 

 Nat. Sci. Phila., Type no. 5322.] 



Size medium: form relatively robust, subcompressed: surface 

 smooth. Head with the exposed dorsal length slightly less than one- 

 half as long as the dorsum of the pronotum, ventral portion of head 

 quite broad, narrowing dorsad: fastigium as characteristic of the 

 genus, its plane in general continuous with the occipital line, the apex 

 with a slightly decurved spine, the general chrection of which is ceph- 

 alad, cephalic margin of the fastigium ventrad of the spine distinctly 

 compressed and carinate: paired ocelli subtrigonal in form, median 

 ocellus small, in general circular: face with the very faintest and very 

 sparsest type of punctation : eyes moderately prominent, irregularly 

 subcircular in basal outline, slightly flattened cephalad and even more 

 weakly so ventro-caudad : antennae over twice as long as the body; 

 proximal joint with the projection on the disto-internal face rounded 

 dentiform. Pronotum with its dorsal line straight when seen from 

 the side, in transverse section moderately arcuate dorsad, rounding 

 broadly into the lateral lobes : disk of pronotum quite narrow on the 

 cephalic half of the pronotum, moderately expanding on the meta- 

 zona, cephalic margin of disk with the faintest possible arcuate emar- 

 gination, caudal margin of disk regularly arcuate; principal trans- 

 verse sulcus weakly impressed, placed mesad, prozona crossed at its 

 middle by a more decidedly impressed arcuate sulcus, which is weak 

 mesad: lateral lobes of the pronotum twice as long as deep; cephalic 

 margin of the lobes straight oblique, regularly rounding at the ventro- 



«Boll. Mus. Zool. Anat. Comp. Torino, XIII, No. 311, p. 89, (1898). 



