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Description. — Based on two males. Oval, widest behind middle. 



Color: Head, pronotum and scutellum reddish brown, coria yellow, 

 unmarked; venter paler reddish brown, legs and labium yellow. 



Head: Length about four-fifths width, 0.42(0.41-0.44): 0.52 (0.52- 

 0.53); interocular width, 0.31(0.30-0.31); clypeus slightly longer than 

 juga; latter with five marginal pegs; surface distinctl}^ punctate on juga 

 and between eyes. Antennal segments: I, 0.12(0.12-0.13); II, 0.03 

 (0.03-0.03); III, 0.17(0.16-0.18); IV, 0.20(0.20-0.20); V, 0.22(0.21- 

 0.23). Labium reaching bases of middle coxae. Labial segments: 

 I, 0.17(0.16-0.18); II, 0.23(0.23-0.23); III, 0.26(0.26-0.27); IV, 

 0.22(0.21-0.23). 



Pronotum: Length about two-thu-ds width, 0.79(0.74-0.84): 1.20 

 (1.16-1.25); anterior margin shallowly concave; lateral margins 

 straight on basal half; transverse impression distinct, with row of 

 coarse punctures; anterior lobe moderately tumid, with several rows 

 of coarse punctures laterally and subapically, with few small punctures 

 on midline and on disc of calli; posterior lobe with scattered punctures; 

 umbones impunctate, not continued to anterior lobe as impunctate 

 ridge. 



Scutellum: Length-width ratio, 0.44(0.43-0.45): 0.53 (0.50-0.56). 



Hemelytron: Mesocorium with few scattered punctures apically; 

 exocorium punctate for full width. 



Propleuron: Prosternal carinae lower than labial II, rounded. 



Legs: Anterior femur ventrally with oblique, stout, unequally 

 furcate spine near basal third; anterior tibia not angled near middle 

 of ventral margin; posterior femur ventrally with subapical spine 

 compressed, obliquely truncated at apex, as long as two-thirds femoral 

 height. 



Terminalia: Gonostylus as illustrated (fig. 292). 



Length of body: 2.08(1.89-2.28). 



Type data.— Since no type locality was recorded by St^l, one may 

 assume from the title of his paper that it was Rio de Janeiro. The 

 type specimen (Stock), a male, bears the simple label "Brasil." 



Specimens studied. — 2 males. 



Brazil: No exact locality, "Typus," 1 male (Stock) ; on cabbage, intercepted at 

 New Orleans, La., Mar. 9, 1938, 1 male (USNM). 



Amnestus pallidas Zimmer 



Plate figure 294 



Annedus [!] paUidus Zimmer, 1910, p. 166, fig. 10. 



Amnestus pallidus Van Duzee, 1917, p. 23. — Torre Bueno, 1939, p. 183. 



Diagnosis.— The almost concolorous reddish brown head, pro- 

 notum, scutellum, and corium, plus the shorter labium which does 



