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densely and coarsely punctate, the punctures forming irregular ridges, 

 giving the elytra a semicostate appearance; piceous with three pale 

 yellow spots on each elytron, the margin pale. Epipleura extending 

 to apical curve, last two abdominal segments entirely pale above, 

 legs and undersm-face entirely pale. Length 4.8-6 mm.; width 

 2-2.5 mm. 



Type: Male, USNM 63357, and three paratypes, from Tucurrique, 

 Costa Rica, Schild and Burgdorf ; two paratypes in Museum of Com- 

 parative Zoology (No. 29612). 



Other localities: Costa Rica: Juan Vincas, collected by C. H. 

 Ballou on Verhesina turbacensis H. B. K.; Tm-rialba, Schild and 

 Burgdorf, 2d Jacoby collection; Port Limdn, P. J. Darlington; San 

 Jose, Schild and Burgdorf. 



Reml^rks: In this species with entirely pale legs and antennae, the 

 pronotal spots are near the anterior margin of the prothorax and extend 

 barely to the middle of the pronotum, 



Iceloceras latiplagiatum, new species 



Figure 3,a 



About 5.5 mm. in length, elongate oblong oval, shining although 

 faintly alutaceous; head and prothorax finely and elytra coarsely 

 punctate; pale yellow, the antennae bro^vn with the four distal joints 

 pale, pronotum with a large piceous spot on each side in anterior half 

 nearly meeting in center; elytra dark with six pale yellow spots, 

 margin pale; all femora pale, middle and posterior tibiae dark, anterior 

 tibiae dark on one side ; last two segments of abdomen entirely pale on 

 dorsal side. 



Head with interocular space half its width ; smooth and shiny with 

 a few fine punctures on occiput, frontal tubercles distinctly marked, a 

 short carina between antennal sockets. Antennae brown with the 

 four distal joints pale. Prothorax a little wider than long, with 

 slightly curved sides, disk with deep semicircular depression; shiny 

 although alutaceous, finely punctate; pale yellow with a broad piceous 

 mark on each side of anterior half of pronotum, in two of the four 

 specimens nearly meeting in the middle. Scutellum pale. Elytra 

 piceous with three large pale yellow spots on each elytron, the margin 

 pale, densely punctate, faintly costate. Epipleui-a vanishing at 

 apical cm've; last two segments of abdomen dorsally entirely pale. 

 Body beneath entirely pale, anterior tibiae dark on one side, middle 

 and posterior tibiae and all tarsi dark. Length 4.8-5.5 mm.; width 

 2.2-2.6 mm. 



Type: Male and two paratypes, USNM 63358, collected at Porto 

 Bello, Panama, Mar. 3, 1911, by August Busck. One paratype in 

 Museum of Comparative Zoology (No. 29613). 



