F. C. BOWDITCH 499 



Type. — 9 ; Amazon \'alley near Santarem, Brazil. Length 4.5 

 mm. 



Clypeus smooth, vertical, two side and a faint median carina, frontal tu- 

 bercle quite prominent, adjoining and on the vertex is a well marked trans- 

 verse fovea, the tubercle, fovea and a spot behind sometimes brown; thorax 

 transverse, depressed behind on either side and also at the anterior angles, 

 which are prominent, also an obsolete antemedian fovea, the surface sparsely 

 golden pubescent; elytra deeply punctate striate, somewhat obsolete at apex, 

 no visible basal depression, sparsely and inconspicuously pubescent, body 

 beneath and legs flavous, claws appendiculatc. 



In addition to type two specimens from Demerara, British 

 Guiana, Alte Sammlung, second Jac. coll., one marked "n.i.m.," 

 both in rather poor order. 



Loxoprosopus bolivianus iiov. sp. 



Elongate, black, upper i)art of clypeus, thorax and anterior 

 legs mostly yellow, elytra deeply punctate striate with a narrow 

 marginal fuscous border from shoulder to apex, antennae a little 

 longer than body, black, joints nine to eleven flavous.' 



Type. — Bolivia. Square dark green label. Second Jac. coll. 

 Length 3.5 mm. 



Clypeus with strong obliciue sitie ridges meeting at the top, they and the 

 space above yellow, below black, above the antennae a strong longitudinal 

 fovea, remainder of the head thickly punctulate ; antennal joints three, four and 

 five the longest, joints one and six about equal; thorax transverse, margined, 

 sides nearly straight, surface nearly equate, sparsely clothed with yellow pu- 

 bescence; el}i;ra with sUghtly indicated basal depression, the smiace sparsely 

 clothed with ashy pubescence, more noticeable on the light edge; body beneath 

 black, anterior legs with tip of femora and tibia and tarsi browned, hind legs 

 with flavous trochanters, femora black, slightly discolored near the trochanter, 

 tibia and tarsi brownish red, claws appendiculate. 



Loxoprosopus (?) flaveola nov. sp. 



Pale yellow, the antennae, anterior tibiae and tarsi, extreme 

 apex of femora and an ol)long spot on upper side of hind femora 

 near apex, black; swollen claw of hind tarsi, rufous black, elytra 

 with large punctures placed in striate form, nearly obsolete 

 behind. 



Type.— Cachabe, Ecuador; low c; XI, 1896, (Rosenberg). 



Clypeus with obsolete median and side carina, the latter being arched at 

 the top, a well marked median fovea between the eyes with frontal tubercles 

 flat and obsolete, vertex punctate; thorax transverse, depressed behind, and 

 obsoletely so, m(>dianly in front, sides margined, obsoletely subangulate in 



TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC, XLI. 



