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and following the outline of the margin. Metasternum more coarsely 

 and distinctly punctured than the abdomen. Prosternum coarsely 

 and densely gi'anulose. 



Length, 2.75 mm.; width, 1 mm. 



Type locality. — Tumupasa, Bolivia. 



Type.— 02it. No. 26986, U.S.N.M. 



Described from a single specimen collected at the type locality 

 during December, 1921. 



LEIOPLEURA GORAI, new species 



Female. — -Oblong, moderately convex, broadly rounded in front, 

 more arcuately attenuate posteriorly, nearly as wide behind as in 

 front, and strongly shining ; uniformly black above and beneath, with 

 the front of head green, and the sides of the pronotum feebly nar- 

 rowly aeneous. 



Head moderately, evenly convex, with an obsolete depression on 

 the front and a similar one on the vertex, and with a narrow 

 longitudinal groove extending between the two depressions, but 

 becoming obsolete on occiput and near the epistoma; surface glab- 

 rous, rather finely, very sparsely, and obsoletely punctate, the 

 intervals smooth posteriorly, but becoming finely and densely granu- 

 lose toward the epistoma; antennae short, piceous, with a feebly 

 aeneous tinge. Pronotum moderately convex, two times as wide 

 as long, distinctly narrower in front than behind, and widest at 

 base; sides strongly arcuately attenuate from base to anterior 

 angles; posterior angles feebly projecting and rather acute; an- 

 terior margin rather strongly arcuately emarginate; base trans- 

 versely truncate to middle of elytron, where it is feebly emarginate, 

 then turning obliquely backward to the scutellum, in front of which 

 it is truncate; surface broadly flattened along the sides, the depres- 

 sion extending obliquely from the anterior angles to base at middle 

 of elytron, then transversely along base, where it is broadly con- 

 cave in front of scutellum, and more deeply triangularly depressed 

 on each side near the posterior angles, causing the antero-median 

 part to be regularly convex, and with the lateral carina only feebly 

 indicated, finely, sparsely and irregularly punctate, the punctures 

 indistinct, and the intervals finely and obsoletely reticulate. Scutel- 

 lum triangular, sides about equal in length, and the surface nearly 

 smooth. Elytra moderately convex, as wide as pronotum at base, 

 and widest at middle ; humeral angles broadly rounded ; sides feebly 

 arcuately expanded to near middle, then strongly arcuately at- 

 tenuate to the tips, which are conjointly broadly rounded, with the 

 lateral margins finely serrate posteriorly; humeri strongly de- 

 veloped; each elytron with a broad, very deep, transverse depres- 

 sion at base, a narrow, deep one between the humerus and lateral 



