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with a reddish-yellow seta. Pygidium coarsely punctate, the punc- 

 tures poorly defined basally; basal half altaceous, apical half shinmg 

 and very convex. Pygidium, abdomen, mesosternum, and meta- 

 sternum black, prosternum and legs reddish black. Antennal club 

 grayish tinged with brown. Ventral surfaces of thorax, particularly 

 the metasternum, coarsely punctured, more so laterally than medially, 

 each puncture usuaUy bearing a reddish seta; surface laterally be- 

 tween punctures fmely alutaceous; metasternum smoothly shinmg 

 mediaUy not indented, posteriorly impunctate except for one or two 

 puncture's. Abdominal segments, except first, with a row of setigerous 

 punctures across their base; last segment narrowed mediaUy, emargi- 

 nate as is typical of genus. Forelegs greatly elongated, the apices ol 

 the forefemora extending sUghtly beyond the pronotal margm; 

 foretibiae proportionately as long, slender, and recurved, with a pro- 

 nounced projection and a long yeUowish pencil of hau-s protrudmg 

 above the apical spine; femora of midcUe and hind legs with scattered 

 coarse punctures, each puncture bearing a reddish seta. 



Male MiNOR.-Paratype, length 5.1 mm., mdth 2.9 mm. Differing 

 from holotype male major in following respects: Clypeus less sharply 

 reflexed anteriorly, noticeably emarginate, surface coarsely punctate 

 lateraUy, somewhat rugose; frons with a few coarse punctures and 

 scattered fine ones, somewhat alutaceous; clypeal carina laclong, 

 frontal carina quite pronounced, of rather uniform height, and sharply 

 terminated lateraUy; gena not as noticeably produced lateraUy as m 

 male major, but stUl weU-delimited from clypeus. 



Pronotum less convex but simUar to male major except for pronotal 

 protuberance, which is ahnost entirely lacking but mdicated by a 

 broad arcuate median fine that scarcely protrudes medially over the 

 anterior pronotal margin; reddish-yeUow setae present m almost all 

 the pronotal punctures. Elytra and pygidium as described for male 

 major Ventral surfaces sunUar to male major. The legs reddish 

 brown with the forelegs greatly shortened, the forefemur barely 

 extendmg to the lateral pronotal margin and the foretibia propor- 

 tionately shortened and somewhat thickened; both the conical projec- 

 tion and the yeUow pencU of hahs over the apical tibial spme missmg. 

 Allotype.— Female, length 6.3 mm., width 3.6 mm. Differmg 

 from male major in foUowing respects: Clypeus slightly reflexed 

 anteriorly; broadly, somewhat angularly emargmate. Clypeal disc 

 coarsely rugosely punctate, the punctures often with yellowish setae; 

 clypeal carina low, weak but distinct, highest medially; scattered 

 coarse setigerous punctures behind clypeal carina. Frontal carma 

 pronounced, almost twice as high as the clypeal carma, mediaUy of 

 uniform height, lateraUy becoming graduaUy obsolete. Gena only 

 slightly flared and broadly arcuate. 



