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long, clayish like head and rostnim, variegated with bhick, two indistinct black 

 basal spots, on each side an obliqne black snbapical submesial dash and a lateral 

 discal median spot, this situated on a tubercle ; a transverse row of three tubercles ; 

 carina at basal third, evenly convex from side to side, interrupted in middle, evenly 

 arched forward at sides, without indication of an angle, the longitudinal portion 

 not quite reaching halfway to apical margin ; longitudinal basal carina vestigial. 

 Scutellum grey, as long as broad, rounded. Elytra slightly variegated with clay, 

 niultituberculate, the tubercles tufted with tawny : third interspace with three 

 large tubercles, of which the first is the highest, fifth interspace with three rather 

 prominent tubercles from before middle to apical declivity, besides a small subbasal 

 one ; seventh interspace with four, exclusive of shoulder ; a lateral marginal median 

 spot clay ; apex of suture conspicuously whitish grey, this streak ending at the 

 l)rominent apical sutural tubercle. Femora greyish clay, basal half brown, a 

 snbapical spot rufescent ; tibiae also pubescent clay, a subbasal spot rnfescent, 

 a broad median ring brown-black ; tarsi brown, claw-segment and apex of first 

 rufescent, greyish pubescent. Underside punctured, grey laterally, loQg-haired in 

 middle, especially on meso-metasternum. 



Length, 4^ mm. 



Ilab. Cochabamba, Bolivia (Germain). 



1 c?. 



43. Goniocloeus tarsalis spec. nov. 



? . Black-brown, densely clothed with ochreous clay, variegated with brown ; 

 tarsi rufous. Rostrum twice as broad as long, truncate, feebly trisinuate, depressed 

 in middle and at sides, with a smooth, slightly elevate, mesial line. Upper edge 

 of anteunal cavity continued backwards, not reaching eye, a short carina above 

 it at apex. Frons one-third the width of the rostrum, dispersedly but coarsely 

 punctured like rostrum ; brown, variegated with clay ; occiput purer brown, thin 

 mesial line and broad lateral vitta clay. Eye conspicuously edged with clay. 

 Antenna black-brown, segment 3 a little longer than 4, 8 four times as long as 

 apically broad, 9 half as long again as broad. It) also triangnlar, longer than 

 broad, 11 ovate, pale at tip, as long as 10. Prothorax widest before middle, 

 where the carina terminates rather abruptly, dispersedly punctured, transversely 

 dejjressed before middle and before carina, the two depressions connected with 

 one another twice on disc; clay-colour, variegated with brown, four spots at base, 

 a j)air at apex (connected with one another at margin) and a transverse row of 

 five in middle more conspicuous, punctures also brown ; carina angulate in middle, 

 the point directed backwards, curved forward at sides in an even arch. Scutellum 

 clay, semicircular. Elytra oblong, multituberculate, densely marmorated and 

 tesselated with brown ; third interspace with three tubercles, first and third 

 large, high, fifth and seventh interspaces with four each, apex of suture also 

 strongly elevate, uiuth interspace tuberculate-costate. Pygidium semicircular, 

 apical half depressed. Underside dotted with large brown punctures. Femora 

 ringed with brown ; tibiae rufescent, a subbasal and a snbapical ring grey. 



Length, Si mm. 



Hab. San Carlos, Costa Rica. 



1 ?. 



