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moderately elevated antrorse rami, which are rather widely open 

 below. Pronotum somewhat depressed, elongate, truncate 

 in front, subulate behind, flat above, slightly depressed at the 

 shoulders, granulate, coarsely rugose anteriorly, slightly swol- 

 len on each side between the end of the humero-apical carina 

 and principal sulcus; the shoulders narrow, humeral angles 

 very obtuse, sides of the hind process straight; mid-carina 

 scarcely distinct, lateral carinas prominent; humero-apical 

 carina distinct, continued forward in a straight line on the 

 shoulders to meet the lateral carinas one millimeter behind the 

 groove opposite the apex of the elytra. Elytra elongate, four 

 times as long as wide, narrowly lanceolate, subactite at each 

 end, nearly straight above, arcuate below. Anterior and middle 

 femora slender (6 by i, 5 by i) with undulate margins; hind 

 femora long and slender, genicular and femoral lobes small, 

 third joint of posterior tarsi equal to or a little longer than the 

 first. 



General color rufous-brown, varied with fuscous, with 

 blotches of pale green on the hind femora and on sides of the 

 })ronotum. 



Total length, $, 12.5 mm.; pronotum, 11.4 mm.; post, 

 fem., 6 mm.; antenna;, 4 mm.; width of the shoulders, 

 2.6 mm. 



Habitat, Nicaragua, Greytown (Shimek in Coll. Bruner). 

 (Morse.) 



Morse, Biol. Cent. Am. Orth., II., 7, 8, fig. (1900). 



Amorphophus sp. Bruner, Bull. lab. Nat. Hist. Univ. Iowa, 

 III., 3, 61, fig. 2. 



Scudder, Index N. Am. Orth., 235 (1901). 



PLATYTHORUS, morse. 



Related to Amorphopus, but possessing elongate antennae, 

 with very large basal joints inserted on a level with the lower 

 margin of the eyes; the anterior and middle femora little 

 expanded; posterior tarsi with the first joint longer than the 

 third; lateral lobes of the pronotum turned outward, obliquely 

 truncate, obtuse, and rounded. (Morse.) 



Morse, Biol. Cent. Am. Orth., II., 8 (1900). 



