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This species resembles Estola ignohilis Bates very closely, but is 

 more cuneiform, the pubescence denser and more ocherous, and the 

 head has a distinct longitudinal groove on the front. 



JAMESIA LINEATA, new species 



Robust and oblong-triangular, uniformly piceous above and be- 

 neath, and clothed with ocherous pubescence; mandibles black; palpi 

 black, with the tips reddish. 



Head very elongate, narrowly triangular and flat in front, deeply 

 angularly depressed between the antennal tubercles, which are rather 

 strongly elevated and nearly contiguous, the surface coarsely rugose, 

 with a few short ocherous hairs between the rugae ; eyes feebly con- 

 vex, deeply emarginate, and narrowly separated from each other on 

 the top, the lower lobes nearly quadrate, and the upper lobes very 

 small and narrow. Antennae rather robust, longer than body (last 

 three joints missing), reddish-black, densely clothed with very short, 

 recumbent brownish pubescence, and densely ciliate on the under side 

 of the joints with long erect hairs; first joint rather long, subcylin- 

 drical, and extending to middle of pronotum; third joint slightly 

 longer than the first and fourth, and the fifth to eighth joints sub- 

 equal in length. 



Pronotum nearly two times as wide as long, and the apex and 

 base nearly equal in width ; sides nearly parallel and unarmed ; sur- 

 face uneven, coarsely rugose, sparsely clothed with short recumbent 

 brownish-yellow pubescence, and the anterior and posterior margins 

 with a fringe of densely placed, long, recumbent orange-yellow hairs. 

 Scutellum large, triangular, broadly truncate behind, and rather 

 densely pubescent. 



Elytra at base nearly a half wider than pronotum, and two times 

 as long as wide; humeri strongly developed, and produced into a 

 short obtuse tubercle; sides feebly obliquely narrowed from base to 

 near apex, then strongly arcuately attenuate to the tips, which are 

 conjointly broadly rounded; surface regularly convex, with a few 

 small, irregularly placed tubercles near base, densely clothed with 

 short, recumbent, ocherous pubescence, and each elytron with the 

 .suture, anterior margin, and three narrow longitudinal lines glabrous, 

 the second and third lines connected to each other near the apex, 

 and the first connected to the second at the apical fifth, these lines 

 ornamented with a number of coarse, irregularly placed punctures, 

 in which is a small spot of whitish pubescence. 



Prosternum arcuately declivous in front and behind, triangular 

 between the anterior coxae, with the lateral margins strongly ele- 

 vated. Mesosternum broad, feebly declivous in front, and deeply, 

 angularly emarginate behind. Abdomen beneath nearly smooth, 

 and densely clothed with short, recumbent, ocherous pubescence; 



