400 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM vol. SS 



RENOCIS INSULAKIS. new species 



Figures 17, p; 18, n 



Female. — Light reddish broTvn, with cinereous and fulvous scales; 

 1.46 mm. long, 1.82 times as long as wide, 



Frons with epistomal margin scarcely toothed in median line, 

 fringed with fine yellow-cinereous setae, covering basal halves of 

 mandibles; very feebly transversely impressed above epistoma, frons 

 convex, only slightly flattened on disk; surface subopaque, reddish 

 brown, finely granulate-punctate ; surf aca partly concealed by rather 

 short, stout, recumbent, cinereous setae directed dorso-mesad. Eye 3 

 times as long as wide, finely granulate ; the inner line broadly, shal- 

 lowly emarginate. Antenna (fig. 17, p) with club broad-oval, 1.33 

 times as long as wide; with three annulate-setigerous sutures, first 

 nearly straight, second and third rather weakly procurved. 



Pronotum 1,61 times as wide as long, widest near base, which is 

 very broadly, shallowly emarginate in median half; sides behind 

 strongly arcuate, constricted anteriorly; scarcely at all impressed 

 behind the broadly rounded front margin, which is very feebly 

 sinuate in median area, and bearing a sparse fringe of erect, spatu- 

 late, fulvous setae, only slightly shorter in median area; surface 

 reddish brown, feebly shining, finely punctate, reticulate-granulate; 

 at each side with two transverse rows of small, sharp asperities (4-6 

 each row), each bordered posteriorl}?^ by a single row of erect, yellow- 

 cinereous scales; surface partly concealed by numerous small, re- 

 cumbent scales, fulvous on anterior disk and nearly white on sides 

 and on a narrow band behind ; with a few erect setae in median line 

 near base. 



Elytra 1,26 times as long as wide, scarcely wider than pronotum; 

 sides straight and subparallel on anterior two-thirds, moderately 

 broadly rounded behind ; basal margins moderately strongly elevated 

 from suture to fifth interspace on each elytron, with eight crenula- 

 tions on each in a continuous line; striae impressed, less than half 

 as wide as interspaces, punctures close, of moderate size ; interspaces 

 appearing nearly flat, finely rugose-punctate, with a few weak gran- 

 ules, median row of punctures slightly larger ; surface reddish brown, 

 shining, partly concealed by numerous scales, recumbent anteriorly 

 on disk, suberect behind, with a median row of erect scales or short 

 setae in each interspace; scales cinereous and fulvous intermixed, 

 with a single row of nearly white cinereous scales next to suture in 

 each sutural interspace. Declivity evenly arched, not sulcate, striae 

 equally impressed, interspaces slightly narrowed and scales erect or 

 suberect. 



Ventral surface reddish brown, feebly shining, thinly clothed with 

 nearly white, recumbent, usually bifurcate scales, with some of scales 



