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than behind, sides moderately convex; surface moderately convex in 

 front, flat behind; sculpture coarse, similar to head. Mesosternum 

 coarsely and irregularly longitudinally striate- 

 Elytra more than twice as broad as pro tho- 

 rax, broadest behind middle; posterior cor- 

 ners narrowly rounded, border concave; finely 

 punctate, basally with numerous short striae 

 and two long ones extending subparallel to 

 the sutural striae; humeri with oblique mar- 

 gins, which extend backward as very short 

 striae. Abdomen regularly and distinctly, 

 though finely punctate, a little longer than 

 elytra, strongly convex posterior to the pit, 

 which is broad and deep and grooved at bot- 

 tom; lateral tubercular structures small, elon- 

 gate, fascicles thin. Propygidum four times 

 as broad as long. Legs short and rather 

 stout. 



Hairs abundant, curved, rather short and 

 stiff. A few clavate hairs mingled with the 

 others on the neck and abdomen. 



Type locality. — Lombardia, Honduras. 



Host. — Wasmannia auropunctata Roger. 



Type.— Cat. No. 23937, U.S.N.M. 



Described from a single specimen taken in 

 On the posterior border of the elytra the hairs 



Fig. 6.— Pustiger clavipilis, 

 new species. Drawn by a. 



MOTTER. 



a nest of the host ant. 



are longer and on either side several are grouped into thin fascicles. 



