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  PROCEEDINGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  NATIONAL 
  MUSEUM 
  vol. 
  se 
  

  

  Length 
  14 
  mm., 
  width 
  4.5 
  mm. 
  

  

  Female.— 
  T>\S.Qvs 
  from 
  the 
  male 
  in 
  being 
  larger, 
  and 
  in 
  having 
  the 
  

   abdomen 
  more 
  densely 
  clothed 
  at 
  the 
  middle 
  with 
  more 
  conspicuous, 
  

   longer, 
  erect 
  hairs, 
  and 
  the 
  last 
  sternite 
  more 
  obliquely 
  narrowed 
  toward 
  

   the 
  apex, 
  the 
  tarsal 
  claws 
  cleft 
  farther 
  from 
  the 
  tips 
  with 
  the 
  inner 
  

   tooth 
  of 
  each 
  claw 
  much 
  shorter 
  than 
  the 
  outer 
  one, 
  and 
  the 
  palpi 
  and 
  

   antennae 
  of 
  different 
  shapes. 
  

  

  Length 
  17-20 
  mm., 
  width 
  5.5-6 
  nun. 
  

  

  Type 
  locality 
  --Lia, 
  Chorrera, 
  Panama. 
  

  

  Type, 
  allotype, 
  and 
  paratypes. 
  — 
  U.S.N.M. 
  No. 
  57164. 
  

  

  Remarks. 
  — 
  Described 
  from 
  five 
  specimens 
  (1 
  male 
  type) 
  collected 
  

   at 
  the 
  type 
  locality 
  by 
  August 
  Busck, 
  the 
  male 
  type 
  on 
  May 
  14, 
  1912, 
  

   and 
  four 
  females 
  on 
  May 
  17, 
  1912. 
  

  

  Genus 
  DROMAEOLUS 
  Kiesenwetter 
  

  

  DROMAEOLUS 
  PULCHER, 
  new 
  species 
  

  

  Oblong, 
  slightly 
  convex 
  above, 
  moderately 
  shining, 
  dark 
  brown, 
  

   elytra 
  and 
  abdomen 
  more 
  reddish, 
  legs 
  yellowish 
  brown, 
  the 
  elytra 
  

   ornamented 
  with 
  whitish 
  pubescent 
  designs. 
  

  

  Head 
  slightly 
  convex, 
  vaguely, 
  transversely 
  depressed 
  in 
  front 
  of 
  

   clypeus, 
  with 
  a 
  vague, 
  short, 
  longitudinal, 
  smooth, 
  median 
  carina, 
  

   finely, 
  confluently 
  punctate, 
  sparsely 
  clothed 
  with 
  moderately 
  long, 
  

   semierect, 
  whitish 
  hairs; 
  interocular 
  carina 
  very 
  strongly 
  elevated, 
  

   not 
  interrupted 
  and 
  broadly 
  rounded 
  at 
  middle 
  ; 
  clypeus 
  very 
  narrow 
  

   at 
  base, 
  one-half 
  as 
  wide 
  as 
  distance 
  to 
  eye, 
  broadly 
  sinuate 
  at 
  apex, 
  

   broadly 
  depressed 
  near 
  anterior 
  margin 
  and 
  with 
  a 
  strongly 
  elevated, 
  

   short, 
  longitudinal 
  carina 
  at 
  base. 
  Antenna 
  rather 
  robust, 
  densely 
  

   pubescent, 
  longitudinally 
  carinate, 
  not 
  distinctly 
  serrate; 
  third 
  seg- 
  

   ment 
  vaguely 
  longer 
  than 
  second; 
  segments 
  3 
  to 
  10 
  as 
  wide 
  as 
  long 
  

   and 
  subequal 
  in 
  length 
  to 
  one 
  another; 
  segment 
  11 
  oblong, 
  acute 
  

   at 
  apex. 
  

  

  Pronotum 
  slightly 
  shorter 
  at 
  middle 
  than 
  wide 
  at 
  base, 
  strongly 
  

   convex, 
  deflexed 
  along 
  base; 
  sides 
  arcuately 
  converging 
  from 
  bases 
  

   to 
  apices; 
  posterior 
  angles 
  strongly 
  projecting 
  backward 
  along 
  sides 
  

   of 
  elytra; 
  surface 
  densely, 
  finely, 
  uniformly 
  punctate, 
  densely 
  

   clothed 
  along 
  sides 
  and 
  base 
  with 
  long, 
  recumbent, 
  whitish 
  hairs, 
  

   hairs 
  on 
  median 
  part 
  not 
  conspicuous. 
  

  

  Elytra 
  slightly 
  convex 
  ; 
  sides 
  converging 
  from 
  bases 
  to 
  tips, 
  which 
  

   are 
  conjointly 
  broadly 
  rounded; 
  surface 
  not 
  striate, 
  densely, 
  finely 
  

   punctate, 
  densely 
  clothed 
  with 
  long, 
  semierect, 
  blackish 
  hairs, 
  and 
  

   each 
  elytron 
  ornamented 
  with 
  long, 
  recumbent, 
  whitish 
  hairs 
  as 
  fol- 
  

   lows 
  : 
  A 
  narrow 
  fascia 
  along 
  base 
  broadly 
  expanded 
  at 
  humeral 
  angle, 
  

   a 
  narrow 
  band 
  along 
  sutural 
  margin 
  connected 
  to 
  a 
  broad 
  fascia 
  at 
  

   middle, 
  and 
  a 
  broad 
  fascia 
  at 
  apex. 
  

  

  