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third the shorter, fourth joint very long with a tooth at apex on out- 

 side, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth joints with an increasingly long 

 apical spur, ninth joint much thickened, broad and longer and with a 

 peculiar constriction or notching at apical end, tenth joint not so 

 thick as ninth, ^vith a tooth near the base on the outer side. Terminal 

 joint long, thin, and cylindrical. All joints except the tenth, which is 

 pale, dark brown and very hairy. Pro thorax not twice as broad as 

 long, somewhat rectangular, with only sUghtly curved sides, a blunt 

 tooth at each angle, a shallow depression on either side as if the ends 

 of a transverse sulcus, surface alutaceous and distinctly punctate, 

 pale yellow. Scutellum pale. Elytra widened somewhat towards 

 apex, an intrahumeral depression, faintly costate laterally with dis- 

 tinct semistriate punctures between the ridges; surface alutaceous, 

 pale 3'ellow with two wide piceous bands, the basal one extending to 

 the middle, and a broad apical one with a narrow pale yellow band 

 between and a pale margin and apex. Body beneath shiny, pale 

 brown, not pubescent, abdomen paler; femora pale, tibiae and tarsi 

 brown. Anterior coxal ca^uties open, femora and tibiae long and 

 slender, no spine on any of the tibiae, middle tibiae in the male 

 excised near the apex. Front tibiae in the male somewhat thickened, 

 and the first tarsal joint wide, claws bifid. Length 6 mm. 



Type, male, BMNH from Cauca, Colombia. A second specimen, 

 also a male, in the Bowditch collection, from "Bohvia." 



Kemarks: Baly wrote that he had two specimens, both males, one of 

 which is in the British Museum, and the other one in the Bowditch 

 collection, and these are the only specimens known to the writer. 

 The bifid claws, the pecuhar antennal formation in the male, the long 

 slender legs, and the excised middle tibiae differentiate this from related 

 genera. 



Deinocladus cartwrighti, new species 



Figure 15 



About 5 mm. in length, oblong oval, shining, the elytra confusedly 

 punctate, the prothorax vnth a short median transverse sulcus, in the 

 male the ninth and tenth antennal joints much enlarged and the middle 

 tibiae excised, pale yellow brown with a piceous head and antennae, 

 except the tenth and eleventh joints, brown breast and deep brown 

 elytra having the margin and apex and a large median spot on each 

 elytron pale. 



Head with the interocular space half width of head, occiput shiny, 

 smooth, finely punctate and with a median depression over the frontal 

 tubercles, carina extending narrowly down the front, entirely piceous. 

 Antennae in the male (female unknown) long and irregularly shaped, 

 the second and third joints short and compressed, fom^th joint long 



