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This species is distinctive by the strongly lateraUy inflated and non- 

 callused disc of the pronotiun. 



Leptostylus bredini, new species 



Male: Form short, robust, slightly convex above; ground color 

 reddish brown, appendages paler, densely clothed with pale brown 

 recumbent pubescence and ornamented with dark brown and white 

 spots and bands. Head with front flat, subquadrate, rather shal- 

 lowly mipressed between antennal tubercles, antenual tubercles 

 elevated, divergent, not strong; punctation obscured, pubescence 

 concealing surface, recumbent, mottled grayish and brown; narrow 

 longitudinal line extending from epistoma to occiput; eyes small, 

 nioderately coarsely faceted, deeply emarginate, separated above by 

 about diameter of antennal scape; mouthparts with long erect hairs; 

 antennae about as long as body, first four segments densely mottled 

 with dark bro^vn and pale gray-brown pubescence, the following 

 segments pale gray bro^^-n with dark bands at apices and bases, scape 

 extending slightly beyond middle of pronotmn, scape shorter than 

 thu-d segment, longer than remaining segments, segments from third 

 gradually decreasmg in length. Pronotmn about VA times broader 

 than long, base broader than apex; sides feebly inflated, somewhat 

 rounded from apex to feeble basal constriction, apex and base shal- 

 lowly impressed; surface distinctly, finely, separately punctate, disc 

 with five feeble, barely elevated calluses; pubescence gray brown, 

 mottled with dark brown, vittae absent; prosternum narrow, inter- 

 coxal process broad, apically expanded, coxal cavities closed; mes- 

 osternal process very broad, pubescence moderately dense; scutellmn 

 triangular, broadly rounded behind, densely pubescent. Elytra 

 less than Iji as long as broad, tapering apically, less than Iji times 

 as broad as pronotum, humeri feeble; sm-face uneven, vaguely costate 

 with elevated dark-brown pubescent spots longitudinally arranged 

 down costae; punctures fine, sparse; pubescence dense, recumbeiit, 

 brownish except for elevated dark spots and irregular white streaks' 

 suture narrowly white pubescent with nan^ow vague whitish bands 

 beginning at suture a little behind middle and extending obliquely 

 back toward lateral margins, sides with dark vittae extending from 

 behind hmneri obliquely back toward suture and angling toward 

 lateral margin at about apical one-fourth, base behind scutellum with 

 a narrow dark, slightly arcuate band not extending to lateral margins; 

 apices narrow, obliquely truncate. Legs with femora strongly clavate,' 

 pubescence mottled pale and brown; tibiae with irregular dark bands! 

 Abdomen moderately densely pale pubescent; apex of last sternite 

 emarginate. Length 7-8 mm. 



