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PARAPHOSPHORUS HOLOLEUCUS, new species. 



Elongate, parallel, shilling black, nearly impuuetate, densely covered 

 with ocherous and whitish pubescence, nearly white above. Antennjc 

 nearly one-half longer than the body, finely pubescent; terminal joint 

 nearly twice as long as eleventh and curved at apex. Front with a 

 longitudinal carina and a deeply impressed arcuate groove between 

 the eyes. Prothorax transverse, apical constrictions slight, interrupted 

 at middle; basal constriction broad and deep; a broad dorsal vitta and 

 the cylindrical lateral spines glabrous. Elytra parallel, broadly con- 

 jointly rounded and deplanate at apex; an elevated sutural costa 

 beginning somewhat before middle and nearly reaching the apex; a 

 second costa parallel with the first, but only half its length, abbre- 

 viated at each end, glabrous, as are also the humeral umbones, the 

 scutellum, a small round spot on disk before middle and two longitu- 

 dinal marginal spots behind middle. Yentral surface has the median 

 line and a series of round spots on each side of the abdominal segments 



glabrous. 



Xypc.—^o. 28, U.S.N".M. One example, Tana Eiver. Length, 28 mm. 



This form has the appearance of a large species of the group Proso- 

 poceridte, but the complete absence of cicatrix on the antennal scape 

 and the transverse rather finely granulate inferior lobes of the eyes 

 exclude it from that group. 



PROSOPOCERA HOEHNELI, new species. 



Elongate, parallel, dark-brown; head, thorax, and ventral surface 

 clothed with au appressed, silky, grayish ferruginous pubescence. 

 AntenniT? one-half longer than body; third and fourth joints strongly 

 incrassate, clothed with a short, fine, whitish pubescence that does not 

 conceal the reddish-brown ground color; joints fifth to eleventh annu- 

 late with brownish black at the apex; twelfth^ joint dark at base, 

 attenuate and curved at tip. Frontal horn long, porrect, flat above, 

 strongly furcate at apex. A strongly arcuate, black, glabrous impres- 

 sion between the antennal tubercles, connected with a glabrous line 

 running from top of vertex down to the frontal horn. Thorax strongly 

 transverse, with two constrictions at apex and two at base, the anterior 

 basal constriction deepest; the middle ring convex, uneven, with com- 

 pressed, very obtuse lateral tubercles, connected across the disk by a 

 partially glabrous im].ression. Behind this line on the disk each side 

 is a group of glabrous granules; other similar granules behind the 

 lateral tubercles, and on the sides of the front. Elytra broadest 

 between the prominent humeri, slightly narrowed toward the apex, 

 sparsely punctate, rugose behind the humeral umbones; pubescence 

 brown, mottled with white, and with three round ocherous spots each 

 side— one behind the humerus, touching the lateral margni; the sec- 

 ond on the disk, near suture, just before middle; and the third one on 



