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a broad, yellow spot along the sides, the pronotum not wider than the 

 elytra, the interstrial spaces on the sutural regions of the elytra about 

 twice as wide as the strial punctures, and without a subapical carina 

 on the last visible abdominal sternite. 



ACMAEODERA STRIATA, new species 



Narrowly elongate, subcylindrical, strongly convex above, broadly 

 rounded in front, strongly narrowed behind middle, strongly shining; 

 pronotum, head, and underside of body cupreous; elytra brownish 

 black, with a vague purplish reflection, and each elytron ornamented 

 with yellow as follows : Lateral margin along basal half, three nar- 

 row, transversely oblique fasciae extending from lateral margin to 

 disk, and with numerous small, irregular spots on disk and along 

 sutural margin. 



Head flat in front, without distinct depressions, coarsely, rather 

 deeply, confluently alveolate-punctate, sparsely clothed with long, 

 rather broad, erect, whitish hairs; clypeus broadly, shallowly, arcu- 

 ately emarginate in front. Antenna extending to apical third of pro- 

 notum; segment 1 elongate, nearly as long as following three seg- 

 ments united ; segment 2 globose ; segment 3 obconic, slightly longer 

 than 2 ; segment 4 wider than 3 and somewhat triangular ; segments 

 5-11 compact, twice as wide as long, the fifth triangular and the 

 eleventh oval. 



Pronotum nearly twice as wide as long, narrower at apex than at 

 base, widest at middle; sides strongly rounded, the margins narrow 

 and visible from above ; disk strongly convex, narrowly, transversely 

 flattened along anterior margin, with three small indistinct foveae 

 along base, one median and one on each side near posterior angle; 

 surface coarsely, densely, deeply punctate at middle, confluently alveo- 

 late-punctate toward sides, and sparsely clothed with short, rather 

 broad, erect, whitish hairs. 



Elytra moderately convex, transversely depressed along base at 

 middle, at base subequal in width to pronotum at base; sides con- 

 verging from bases to tips, which are conjointly broadly rounded; 

 lateral margins coarsely serrate near apices. Surface striately punc- 

 tate, striae deeply impressed posteriorly, the punctures in the striae 

 coarse and nearly confluent basally, posteriorly separated from one 

 another by about their own widths ; interstrial spaces on sutural re- 

 gions slightly convex, about three times as wide as the strial punc- 

 tures, wider and more strongly convex toward sides, sparsely, finely, 

 regularly punctate, with a rather long, fine, erect, white hair arising 

 from each puncture. 



Abdomen beneath sparsely, finely punctate, sparsely clothed with 

 moderately long, fine, semierect, white hairs; intervals smooth; last 



