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  PROCEEDINGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  NATIONAL 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  EUPAGODERES 
  AENEUS, 
  new 
  species 
  

  

  Figure 
  53 
  

  

  Robust, 
  convex, 
  dorsum 
  slightly 
  flattened; 
  light 
  brown, 
  feebly 
  and 
  

   irregularly 
  mottled 
  with 
  gray-broAvn 
  and 
  wliite, 
  and 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  

   irrorate 
  with 
  black; 
  scales 
  iridescent, 
  the 
  iridescence 
  predominantly 
  

   red. 
  Head 
  and 
  rostrurn 
  separated 
  by 
  a 
  well-marked 
  transverse 
  im- 
  

   pression. 
  Rostrum 
  well 
  arched 
  above, 
  very 
  slightly 
  constricted 
  at 
  

   base 
  beneath, 
  in 
  the 
  female 
  about 
  as 
  stout 
  as 
  that 
  of 
  E. 
  geminatus 
  

   Horn, 
  in 
  the 
  male 
  a 
  little 
  less 
  stout; 
  median 
  sulcus 
  faint 
  or 
  lacking; 
  

   lateral 
  sulci 
  nearly 
  obsolete, 
  sharply 
  converging 
  at 
  base 
  of 
  rostrum. 
  

   Front 
  very 
  slightly 
  flattened; 
  remainder 
  of 
  head 
  evenly, 
  smoothly 
  

   rounded; 
  head 
  and 
  rostrum 
  finely 
  and 
  sparsely 
  punctate. 
  Pronotum 
  

   finely, 
  sparsely 
  punctate, 
  feebly 
  sulcate, 
  from 
  a 
  little 
  over 
  one-fifth 
  to 
  

   slightly 
  less 
  than 
  two-fifths 
  wider 
  than 
  long, 
  widest 
  slightly 
  beliind 
  

   the 
  middle, 
  posterior 
  margin 
  straight, 
  anterior 
  margin 
  slightly 
  pro- 
  

  

  FiGURE 
  S3. 
  — 
  Eupagoderes 
  aeneus, 
  new 
  species: 
  a, 
  Median 
  lobe 
  of 
  male 
  genitalia, 
  lateral 
  

   and 
  dorsal 
  views; 
  b, 
  female 
  genital 
  tube, 
  lateral 
  view; 
  c, 
  female 
  genital 
  tube, 
  dorsal 
  view. 
  

  

  duced 
  at 
  center, 
  sides 
  broadly 
  rounded, 
  smooth. 
  Elytra 
  about 
  one- 
  

   fifth 
  longer 
  than 
  wide, 
  \videst 
  at 
  or 
  slightly 
  behind 
  the 
  middle; 
  striae 
  

   fine, 
  strial 
  punctures 
  very 
  fine, 
  intervals 
  subequal 
  in 
  width 
  and 
  

   nearly 
  or 
  quite 
  flat; 
  elytra! 
  setae 
  subdecumbent, 
  tawny, 
  moderately 
  

   conspicuous. 
  Legs 
  fairly 
  stout; 
  tibiae 
  not 
  denticulate 
  within, 
  poste- 
  

   rior 
  tibiae 
  obliquely 
  truncate; 
  tarsi 
  with 
  the 
  third 
  joint 
  widest 
  in 
  the 
  

   male, 
  and 
  with 
  tufts 
  of 
  pubescence 
  in 
  both 
  sexes. 
  

  

  Measurements 
  in 
  millimeters. 
  — 
  Length 
  7 
  to 
  10.1; 
  width 
  3.5 
  to 
  5.2. 
  

  

  Female 
  genitalia 
  (fig. 
  53 
  6, 
  c) 
  . 
  — 
  Genital 
  tube 
  tubular, 
  rather 
  heavily 
  

   chitinized, 
  very 
  close 
  to 
  E. 
  geminatus 
  Horn 
  in 
  shape. 
  Apical 
  plates 
  

   large, 
  flat 
  or 
  slightly 
  concave 
  beneath; 
  as 
  viewed 
  from 
  above 
  broadly 
  

   rounded, 
  with 
  a 
  transparent 
  border. 
  Coxites 
  large, 
  hairy; 
  styli 
  fairly 
  

   large, 
  placed 
  upon 
  the 
  dorsolateral 
  surface 
  of 
  the 
  coxites. 
  Eighth 
  

   sternite 
  broadly, 
  smoothly 
  rounded 
  at 
  apex. 
  

  

  