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HETEROPS HISPANIOLAE, new species 



Female. — Broadly elongate, subopaque, and moderately flattened 

 above. Head and pronotum dull red, the latter with a median black 

 spot; antennae black; elytra brownish black, more reddish on the 

 basal halves, and each elytron ornamented with two pairs of elongate, 

 eburneous spots ; beneath bright reddish brown, with the tarsi, tibiae, 

 and bases of femora, dark reddish brown or blackish. 



Head strongly transverse, somewhat uneven, and transversely de- 

 pressed in front, feebly concave and longitudinally grooved between 

 the antennal tubercles, which are widely separated and feebly 

 elevated, the surface coarsely, irregularly, confluently punctate, more 

 or less rugose, and feebly pubescent; eyes large, strongly convex, 

 deeply emarginate, and separated from each other on the top by four 

 times the width of the upper lobe. Antenna one and one-fourth 

 times as long as the body, rather densely clothed with short, recum- 

 bent pubescence, with a few long, erect hairs on the underside of 

 the basal joints; joints unarmed at apices; first joint robust, cylin- 

 drical, moderately clavate toward apex, feebly shorter than the 

 third joint, which is subequal in length to the fourth; eleventh joint 

 subequal in length to the tenth. 



Pronotum slightly wider than long, subequal in width at base and 

 apex, and widest at middle; sides feebly, arcuately rounded; disk 

 regularly, moderately convex; surface glabrous, coarsely, deeply, 

 irregularly alveolate-punctate. Scutellum subtriangular, elongate, 

 broadly rounded at apex, and the surface even and rather densely 

 pubescent. 



Elytra three times as long as pronotum, and at base distinctly wider 

 than pronotum at middle; sides parallel from base to near the tips, 

 which are separately, broadly subtruncate, feebly sinuate, with a 

 more or less distinct tooth at lateral angle ; disk moderately convex ; 

 surface finely, densely granulose, feebly, irregularly punctate in basal 

 regions, densely clothed with short, recumbent pubescence, which 

 nearly conceals the surface, and each elytron ornamented with two 

 pairs of elongate, eburneous spots, the spots of each pair subequal in 

 length, and in close contact along their entire length, the basal pair 

 usually longer than the median pair. 



Abdomen beneath feebly, finely, irregularly punctate, and sparsely 

 clothed with short, recumbent, inconspicuous pubescence; last seg- 

 ment broadly subtruncate at apex. Prosternum broadly, transversely 

 depressed in front, coarsely, irregularly rugose, and sparsely clothed 

 with short, inconspicuous pubescence ; prosternai process broad be- 

 tween the coxal cavities, feebly expanded posteriorly, and abruptly 

 declivous at apex. Legs long, nearly glabrous; femora slender, 



