HANCOCK 163 



SCARIA HAMATA, BOL. 



Olivaceous, on either side widely streaked longitudinally 

 with black; inferior margins of lateral lobes of pronotum yel- 

 low; underneath the body, head, and legs pale rufescent; 

 labrum fuscous; elytra black, \ellow punctate before the apex; 

 posterior femora below streaked with fuscous. Pronotum 

 anteriorly little compressed. Wings passing beyond the pro- 

 notal apex, fuscous. Anterior femora with or without small 

 spine. Median carina of [)ronotum percurrent, in the male 

 depressed shortly behind the shoulders. Posterior tibia; fer- 

 ruginous, superior lateral margins towards apex lightly 

 dilated, minutely serrulate, also dentate, internal margin 

 near the apex unarmed. 



Length of body, $ $, 9-12 mm.; pronot., 11. 5-14 mm.; 

 post, fem., 5.5-6.5 mm. 



Locality, Surinam, Hautes Amazonus (Bolivar); Cayenne 

 (Bolivar); Nicaragua (Bruner); Bolivia (Staudinger), Hancock; 

 Guiana (Morse). 



Scaria hamata, Bol. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belgique, XXXL, 

 127 (1887); Brun. Bull. Lab. Nat. Hist. Univ. Iowa, iii. 3, 

 62 (1900); Morse, Biol. Cent. Am. Orth., ii, 19 (1901). 



Tetti.x hamatus of Stal, Acrydium hamatum of De Geer 

 (1773). 



