ART. 22 NEW CERAMBYCID BEETLES^ FISHER 81 



from occiput to middle of front; eyes coarsely granulated, deeply 

 emarginate, and very narrowlj'^ separated from each other on the 

 top. Antenna as long as the body, uniformly pale reddish brown, 

 sparsely clothed with short, recumbent, whitish 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, the 

 following joints shorter and gradually diminishing in length. 



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

 and apex: sides parallel, and rather strongly sinuate; disk uneven, 

 transversely flattened along base and apex, feebly, transversely 

 grooved at basal fourth, and armed with two acute tubercles placed 

 transversely slightly in front of middle; surface with numerous 

 small asperities, rather densely clothed with short, recumbent, brown- 

 ish-white pubescence. Scutellum subtriangular, and broadly sub- 

 truncate at apex. 



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

 than pronotum at middle; sides nearly parallel from base to apical 

 third, then arcuately narrowed to the tips, which are separately, 

 transversely truncate; disk uneven, each elytron with three longi- 

 tudinal costae; surface coarsely, deeply punctate, the punctures 

 widely separated from each other, and arranged in double rows be- 

 tween the costae, rather densely clothed with short, recumbent, whit- 

 ish and yellowish pubescence, and each elytron ornamented with 

 a narrow, inconspicuous, obliquely transverse fascia of dark brown 

 pubescence in front of middle, a large tuft of brownish-yellow hairs 

 near base, and an inconspicuous tuft of similar hairs behind the 

 middle. 



Abdomen beneath densely clothed with long, recumbent, whitish 

 pubescence, which conceals the surface, and with a few long, erect 

 hairs intermixed; last segment broadly rounded at apex. Proster- 

 num arcuately declivous in front and behind, rather broad and 

 densely pubescent between the coxal cavities. Legs short, densely 

 clothed with long, recumbent and erect, whitish pubescence; femora 

 feebly arcuate, and strongly clavate toward tips; tibiae slender, 

 straight, and subcylindrical. 



Length, 8.5 mm. ; width, 3.8 mm. 



Type locality. — Mayaguez, Porto Rico. 



Type. — In American Museum of Natural History. A unique 

 female collected August 12, 1925, by R. H. Van Zwaluwenburg. 



Remarks. — Described from the type. 



This species is allied to in^ularis Fisher, but it differs from that 

 species in being pale reddish brown, with numerous small, round 

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