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This species resembles ornatiis Fisher, but it differs from that 

 species in being more acuminate posteriorly and in having the white 

 pubescent spots on the elytra more distinct. 



BRACHYS ZETEKI, new species 



Male. — Broadly cuneiform, twice as long as wide, broadly rounded 

 in front, slightly narrower behind than in front, strongly shining, 

 the elytra ornamented with distinct, transverse, whitish pubescent 

 fasciae; head aureo-aeneous in front; pronotum and elytra dark 

 green, with a more or less distinct bluish or ]3urplish reflection in 

 certain lights ; beneath black, strongly shining. 



Head slightly convex, transversely flattened behind the epistoma, 

 Avith two broad, feeble gibbosities and a narrow, longitudinal groove 

 on the front, the groove becoming obsolete on the occiput and 

 behind the epistoma; surface finely, densely reticulate, sparsely, 

 finely, irregularly punctate on vertex and occiput, more densely 

 punctate behind the epistoma, sparsely, irregularly clothed with 

 short, semierect, yellowish hairs on occiput and vertex, densely 

 clothed with moderately long, erect, yellow hairs behind the epis- 

 toma, and with a round glabrous area on each side of the front ; 

 epistoma feebly transverse between the antennal cavities, stronglv 

 elevated, but not transversely carinate. 



Pronotum moderately convex, two and one half times as wide as 

 long at middle, distinctly narrower at apex than at base, and widest 

 at base; sides arcuately narrowed from base to apical angles; v>'hen 

 viewed from the side the lateral margin nearly straight anteriorly, 

 strongly arcuate near the posterior angle for the reception of the 

 anterior leg; anterior margin transversely truncate ; base transversely 

 truncate to middle of each elytron, where it is feebly, arcuately 

 emarginate, then turning obliquely backward to the scutellum, in 

 front of which it is feebly, arcuately emarginate; posterior angles 

 obtusely rounded; disk broadly, transversely concave on basal half, 

 the concavity extending obliquely forward on each side to the apical 

 angle, causing the antero-median part of the disk to be regularly 

 convex, and with a feeble, obtusely rounded, arcuate carina on each 

 side near the posterior angle; surface densely, finely reticulate, 

 sparsely, finely punctate on convex area, coarsely ocellate-punctate 

 in depressions, and sparsely, irregularly clothed with moderateh^ 

 long, semierect, white hairs. Scutellum triangular, slightly wider 

 than long, with the anterior margin feebly rounded, and the surface 

 densely, obsoletely reticulate. 



Elytra slightly narrower than pronotum at base; humeral angles 

 obtusely rounded; sides strongly sinuate to middle, then obliquely 

 narrowed to the tips, which are separately narrowly rounded, with 



