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sparsely, irregularly ocellate-punctate. Scutellum small, triangular, 

 arcuately rounded in front, the surface feebly reticulate. 



Elytra moderately convex above, slightly wider than pronotum at 

 base, subequal in width at base and near middle; humeral angles 

 obtuse; sides obliquely expanded from base to basal sixth, arcuately 

 constricted at basal third, arcuately rounded at middle, then ob- 

 liquely narrowed to the tips, which are separately rather broadly 

 rounded, and irregularly serrulate; humeri moderately developed; 

 disk with broad, transverse basal depressions, each elytron with a 

 distinct, short, straight carina extending from humerus to basal 

 third; surface feebly, coarsely, irregularly punctate, the punctures 

 very shallow, and becoming obsolete toward apices. 



Abdomen beneath feebly, rather coarsely reticulate, very sparsely, 

 feebly, irregularly ocellate-punctate, the punctures very shallow, 

 elongate, open posteriorly, with a short, inconspicuous hair at the 

 middle of each puncture ; last segment broadly rounded at apex, with 

 the apical groove deep, and following the outline of the apical half 

 of the segment. Prosternum densely, finely reticulate. 



Length, 3 mm ; width, 1 mm. 



Type locality. — Sabanas, Panama. 



Type and imratypes. — U.S.N.M. No. 49570. 



Remarks. — Described from eight examples (one type). The type 

 and two paratypes were collected at the type locality, April 20, 1923, 

 by R. C. Shannon; one paratype was collected on Taboga Island, 

 Panama, February 26, 1912, by A. Busck; one paratype at Porto 

 Bello, Panama, February 15, 1911, by E. A. Schwarz ; one paratype 

 at Limon, Canal Zone, June 10, 1919, by H. F. Dietz and J. Zetek; 

 one paratype on Flat Rock Plantation, Chagres River, Panama, 

 August 24, 1918, by H. F. Dietz and J. Zetek; and one paratype on 

 Taboga Island, Panama, September 21-22, 1918, by the same collec- 

 tors. Sexes not determined. 



In Dr. J. Obenberger's revision of the genus Taphrocei^s^ this 

 species runs down to i^sticus Thomson in his table of species, but it 

 differs from that species in being glabrous and in having the elytra 

 broadly rounded at the apices. 



TAPHROCERUS DIETZI, new species 



Elongate, slightly more attenuate posteriorly, feebly flattened 

 above, and nearly glabrous; above and beneath aeneous, with a 

 feeble cupreous tinge. 



Head slightly narrower than pronotum at base, strongly convex 

 from top to bottom, nearly flat transversely, the front slightly wider 

 at top than at bottom, lateral margins feebly converging from top 



1 Sbornik, vol. 2, p. 52, 1924. 



