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prosternal lobe broadly rounded in front, deeply arcuately emar- 

 ginate at middle, and feebly declivous; prosternal process rather 

 broad, the sides parallel to the apex, which is broadly rounded. 

 Femora rather slender, the anterior pair with a few obsolete teeth 

 on the inner margin near apex. Tibiae slender, anterior and middle 

 pairs feebly arcuate, and armed with a sharp curved spine on inner 

 margin at apex ; posterior pair straight, feebly flattened, and strongly 

 ciliate on outer margin on apical half. Posterior tarsi about as 

 long as the tibiae, and the first joint as long as the following 

 three joints united. Tarsal claws dissimilar; claws on anterior and 

 middle feet deeply cleft near apex, the inner tooth slender, not 

 quite as long as the outer one, and not turned inward; claws on 

 posterior feet cleft at middle, the inner tooth broad and very short. 



Female. — Diiffers from the male in being larger; head more con- 

 vex, broader in front, sides more parallel, and the color dark brown, 

 with an aeneous tinge ; median parts of first abdominal segment and 

 prosternum without long erect hairs; and the tarsal claws broadly 

 cleft at middle on ail the feet, the inner tooth very broad, short, and 

 not turned inward. 



Length, 5.75-7.5 mm.; width, 1,4^1.9 mm. 



Type locality. — Rurrenabaque (Beni River), Bolivia. 



Type and allotype.— C?it. No. 26971, U.S.N.M. 



Described from two examples, male and female, collected at the 

 type locality during October, 1921. Named after one of the Indian 

 tribes. 



AGRILUS TUMUPASAENSIS, new species 



Male. — Form moderately large, elongate and feebly shining ; head 

 olivaceous-green on the front, becoming cupreous on the occiput; 

 pronotum aeneo-brunneus, with a feeble greenish or purplish reflec- 

 tion; elytra bottle-green, with a distinct purplish tinge, and each 

 elytron ornated with pale yellow recumbent pubescence arranged as 

 follows: A rather broad vitta extending from the basal depression 

 along the suture to middle, with an obsolete spot between its pos- 

 terior extremity and the lateral margin; tAvo oblong spots placed 

 transversely at apical third, the sutural one slightly in advance of 

 the lateral one; and a rather broad vitta along the suture at apex. 

 Beneath brunneo-cupreous, more shining than above, and more or 

 less ornated with whitish pubescent areas. 



Head with the front rather narrow, nearly flat, sides feebl}^ arcu- 

 ately expanded at vertex, without any depressions on the front, but 

 with a narrow longitudinal groove on the vertex and occiput; sur- 

 face coarsely, densely scabrous, or irregularly rugose on the front, 

 becoming coarsely, longitudinally rugose on the occiput, and sparsely 

 clothed with rather long recumbent hairs on the front; epistoma 

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