NEW BARK BEETLES BLACKMAN 361 



facets moderately small. Antenna (pi. 30, fig. 21) with scape and 

 funicle subequal in length, and club shorter; scape flattened, widened 

 distally, fringed with long, fine hairs ; funicle with pedicel nearly as 

 long as distal portion, of which the five segments are irregular in 

 size, the third and fifth funicular segments apparently obsolescent; 

 club broad ovate, only slightly longer than wide, sutures imperfect. 



Pronotum 1.06 times as long as wide, widest behind, posterior 

 outline weakly arcuate, posterior angles scarcely rounded; sides 

 straight and subparallel on posterior half, distinctly but weakly 

 constricted in front of middle, very broadly rounded in front, an- 

 terior margin not serrate ; anterior area with moderate asperities and 

 erect, spatulate setae; summit slightly anterior to middle, rather 

 high, lighter in color; posterior area shining, reticulate, punctures 

 very shallow, rather sparse ; subglabrous. 



Elytra equal in width to pronotum and 1.80 times as long, 1.91 

 times as long as wide; sides subparallel on anterior three-fourths, 

 narrowly rounded behind, with ends meeting to form a broad, shallow 

 emargination at suture as seen from behind, exposing tip of abdomen ; 

 surface moderately shining, feebly reticulate; strial punctures small, 

 rather shallow, in regular rows, striae except the first one not im- 

 pressed; interspaces of moderate width, finely rugulose, punctures 

 very fine, rather sparse on disk and sides, with a few short incon- 

 spicuous hairs. Declivity convex, strial punctures fine, not so shallow 

 as on disk, with minute hairs, first stria impressed; interspaces with 

 fine punctures and short, erect, spatulate setae. 



Male. — Considerably shorter (1.05 mm. long) and stouter (2.66 

 times as long as wide) ; frons convex above, transversely flattened 

 below, surface shining; pronotum more strongly sculptured with 

 anterior margin distinctly serrate; elytra with strial punctures 

 larger, vestiture more conspicuous. 



Type locality. — Colombia, South America, 



Host. — Albizzia mulacocarpa Standley. 



Type materials. — Holotype, allotype, and 18 paratypes, U.S.N.M. 

 No. 56411. 



Holotype, allotype, and 10 paratypes bear the labels "San Vicente, 

 Sant. Colombia, L. M. Murillo 157, Calopo, June, '35, 692 m. alt., 

 27° C"; 8 paratypes, "On branch Albizzia mala-cocarpa, Dpt. San- 

 tander, Colombia, S. A., 700-1300 m., R. P. Roba, Numbers C. H. 

 and B. U." 



CRYPTOCLEPTES COLOMBIANUS, new species 



Plate 30, Figuke 18 



Male. — Reddish brown, with summit of pronotum lighter; 0.99 

 mm. long, 2.24 times as long as wide; allied to murilloi, new species, 

 but shorter and much stouter. 



