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ECYRUS HOFFMANNI, new species 



Male. — Elongate, robust, strongly convex above, uniformly red- 

 dish brown, densely clothed with whitish, brownish, and yellowish 

 pubescence, which nearly conceals the surface, and each elytron orna- 

 mented with a tuft of brown hairs near the base. 



Head in front longer than wide, subequal in width at bottom and 

 top, flat, strongly, angularly depressed between the antennal tuber- 

 cles, which are narrowly separated and strongly elevated, sparsely, 

 coarsely punctate, densely clothed with rather short, recumbent, 

 whitish pubescence, which nearly conceals the surface, and with a 

 longitudinal carina extending from occiput to middle of front ; eyes 

 coarsely granulated, deeply emarginate, and very narrowly separated 

 from each other on the top. Antenna longer than the body (broken) , 

 tips of the joints feebly annulated with brown, surface rather densely 

 clothed with short, recumbent, whitish pubescence, except the first 

 joint, which is clothed with whitish and brownish pubescence, and 

 all the joints densely ciliate beneath; first joint robust, short, 

 reversed cone-shaped, one-half as long as the fourth joint, which is 

 distinctly longer than the third; fifth joint subequal in length to the 

 first joint, the following joints shorter, and gradually diminishing 

 in length. 



Pronotum as wide as long, and subequal in width at base and apex ; 

 sides parallel, and rather strongly sinuate ; disk uneven, transversely 

 flattened along base and apex, transversely grooved at basal fourth, 

 and armed with two acute tubercles placed transversely in front of 

 middle; surface sparsely, coarsely punctate, rather densely clothed 

 with moderately long, recumbent, whitish pubescence, which nearly 

 conceals the surface, and ornamented with pale yellow pubescence 

 around the tubercles. Scutellum subtriangular, broadly rounded at 

 apex, and broadly, deeply concave at base. 



Elytra three times as long as pronotum, and at base one-third wider 

 than pronotum at middle; sides feebly, gradually narrowed from 

 base to apical fourth, then arcuately narrowed to the tips, which are 

 separately, feebly, obliquely truncate ; disk uneven, and each elytron 

 with three longitudinal costae; surface coarsely, deeply punctate, 

 the punctures widely separated from each other, and arranged in 

 double rows between the costae, densely clothed with short, recum- 

 bent, whitish, yellowish, and brownish pubescence, the white pubes- 

 cence forming a broad, obsolete, transverse fascia at middle, bordered 

 anteriorly by a narrow, oblique fascia of dark brown pubescence, 

 with numerous irregular spaces of pale yellow pubescence, and each 

 elytron ornamented near base with a large tuft of dark brown hairs. 

 Abdomen beneath feebly, finely, rather sparsely punctate, densely 

 clothed with long, recumbent, whitish pubescence, with a few long, 



