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22. C. ci7ictifera New Sp. Piceous black, moderately 

 polished, related to C. hiconica Walk., but with a 

 narrower body. Pectoral surface, sides of face, tip and 

 middle of base of tergum coated with white powder. 

 Eyes prominent, but less so, and with a smaller pos- 

 terior lobe than in C. hiconica. Vertex short, dull black, 

 with a small orange lunule at base, an angular spot in 

 the corner near each eye, and a broad border of the same 

 color running from near each eye to the depressions 

 just behind the protuberance of the front; the impres- 

 sions deep and sharply defined, and the surface with 

 two or three coarse wrinkles near each eye. Front 

 moderately blunt, minutely pubescent, with a bright 

 orange, oblong, smooth spot above, and an impressed 

 one at base of the upper surface; the transverse ribs 

 acutely defined, carried far up, and lineated with yellow. 

 Cheeks broadly bordered with yellow; the rostrum tes- 

 taceous pubescent, piceous at tip, reaching to the end of 

 the posterior coxae. Coxae and trochanters striped with 

 piceous black, the femora clouded, the tibiae tipped, and 

 the tarsi annulated with the same color. Pronotum 

 gently concave, short, with the anterior border broadly 

 and slightly curved, thickened, yellow, and followed 

 behind by a transverse impression; the surface rugose 

 on the lateral diagonal areas, and transversely wrinkled 

 at base; the posterior margin almost straight, broadly 

 yellow, w^ith the outer angles feebly prominent; the 

 lateral margin broadly depressed, with a widely curved 

 yellow sunken lobe from behind the middle to beneath 

 the eye, the humeral lobe produced diagonally, obliquely 

 subtruncated, flat wrinkled, minutely pubescent. Meso- 

 notum strongly convex, longer than wide, with a basal 

 pair of slender yellow lines which start in depressions 

 at base and curving inward toward one another become 

 clavate at tip; mesothoracie cross slender, transverse, 

 orange, strongly curving, lateral margins of the meso- 



