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Specimens examined. — From the following localities, 186: 



United States: Alabama (Mobile). Florida (Dunedin, Enterprise, Gainesville, 

 Lakeland, Paradise Key, Marion Co.). Louisiana (Opelousas). Texas (Browns- 

 ville, Liberty, Tcdor, Victoria, Hidalgo Co.). 



Cuba: Soledad. 



Haiti: Ennery. 



Mexico: Mazatldn, Veracruz. 



British Honduras: Manatee District. 



Neomida inyllocnema, new species 



Plate 6 (Fig. 59) 



Description. — Elongate parallel, moderately convex, very feebly 

 shining. Head of male with two thick, blunt, arcuate frontal horns 

 in contact with eyes; frons abruptly and deeply excavate between 

 horns; clypeus well defined, transverse, with two prominent, narrowly 

 separated tubercles on epistomal margin; eyes large, narrowly and 

 deeply emarginate anteriorly, dorsal portion less than % the 

 size of ventral portion; antennae very slender, segments 5 to 11 

 broader than long; terminal segment of maxillary palpus small, 

 narrowly oval; surface of head finely and densely punctm'ed except 

 frontal excavation which is smooth and quite shiny; head of female 

 with large but short and broad, blunt tubercles instead of horns, 

 frons regularly concave between them but not abruptly excavate; 

 epistomal tubercles short and obtuse; entii'e head surface coarsely 

 and densely punctured; otherwise as in male. 



Pronotum transverse, slightly more than 1.5 times as broad as 

 long, widest at base, lateral margins almost straight, feebly conver- 

 gent from base to apex, finely beaded ; apical margin rounded, slightly 

 angulate medially; base almost straight; apical angles broadly 

 rounded, basal angles right-angled; entire surface uniformly coarsely 

 and densely punctured. Elytra subparallel, narrowed at base, lateral 

 margins with thin but prominent, strongly reflected bead, humeral 

 angles sharply rectangular, striae feebly impressed on disk, becoming 

 rather deep apically; strial punctures fine and widely spaced; intervals 

 convex, quite strongly so apically, finely and densely punctulate. 

 Entire dorsal surface clothed with fine but prominent yellowish 

 setae arising from punctures. 



Ventral surface of pronotum convex, edges thickened, coarsely 

 and rugosely punctured; prosternal process convex between coxae, 

 its apex deflected and acute, slightly prolonged behind; metasternum 

 and abdominal sternites finely and sparsely punctured medially, 

 punctures coarser and more closely spaced on pleural sclerites and 

 lateral portions of abdominal sternites; entire ventral surface and 

 all appendages, slightly lighter than dorsum; epipleura entire, rather 

 prominent all the way to elytral apex; anterior femora conspicuously 



