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the lateral margins entire; disk with distinct lateral carinae, which 

 are sinuate, strongly elevated, and extending from humeral angles to 

 near the apices, a broad depression on each side behind the humeral 

 angle, and with broad, moderately deep, basal depressions; surface 

 feebly rugose, sparsely, finely, irregularlj' punctate, rather densely, 

 irregularly clothed with moderately long, semierect, white hairs, 

 and with a broad, transversely oblique fascia of inconspicuous, black 

 hairs just behind the middle. 



Abdomen beneath densely, obsoletely reticulate, sparsely, feebly 

 ocellate-punctate, the punctures large, oblong, and open posteriorly, 

 sparsely clothed with short, recumbent, white hairs toward the sides 

 and on last segment, which is broadly rounded at apex, with the 

 margin entire, and the apical groove deep, transversely truncate pos- 

 teriorly, and following the outline of the lateral margin on each side. 



Length, 2.75 mm ; width, 1.3 mm. 



Tyfe locality. — Taboga Island, Panama. 



Type and paratype. — U.S.N.M. No. 49574. 



Remarks. — Described from two males (one type) collected at the 

 type locality, June 19, 1919, by H. F. Dietz and J. Zetek. 



This species is allied to laetus Waterhouse, but it differs from 

 that species in having the epistoma transverse between the antennal 

 cavities, and in having the elytra rather densely, irregularly clothed 

 with white hairs, with a broad, transversely oblique, black pubescent 

 fascia just behind the middle. 



PACHYSCHELUS VALERIO, new species 



Female. — Broadly cuneiform, one and one half times as long as 

 wide, more strongly narrowed behind than in front, strongly shining, 

 glabrous; head, pronotum, scutellum, and beneath piceous, with a 

 feeble aeneous reflection; elytra blue, with a vague violaceous tinge. 



Head strongly convex, without a distinct longitudinal groove on 

 the front ; surface finely, densely granulose, with a few coarse, irreg- 

 ularly distributed punctures intermixed, and nearly glabrous. 



Pronotum slightly convex, four times as wide as long at middle, 

 much narrower at apex than at base, and widest at base; sides 

 strongly, arcuately narrowed from base to apical angles, which are 

 acute; posterior angles acute, projecting slightly beyond the humeral 

 angles of the elytra and fitting closely to them; anterior margin 

 deeply, arcuately emarginate; base transversely sinuate, broadly, 

 vaguely, arcuately emarginate in front of scutellum; surface even, 

 feebly depressed toward the sides, smooth, sparsely, feebly, irregu- 

 larly ocellate-punctate. Scutellum large, broadly triangular, the 

 surface smooth. 



