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the front, in the male there is a similar lack of caiina, the front du-ectly 

 below the antennal sockets being scooped out and on either side a 

 projecting shelf curving downwards over a deeply excavated lower 

 front, on each side of which is a strongly curved long spine. Antennae 

 in the female with the thu"d joint longer than the fourth, in the male 

 with the third joint swollen and excavate at the apex, the fourth 

 joint excavated at the end joining the third and somewhat swollen, 

 similar to the development in species of Cerotoma, pale with the 

 intermediate joints brownish and the three terminal joints pale j^ellow. 

 Prothorax not twice as broad as long, somewhat rectangular, with 

 the sides slightly curved, almost straight in some specimens, and a 

 well developed transverse sulcus, shining, finely punctate. Scutellum 

 pale. Elytra shining, strongly costate, the intervals with coarse 

 geminate-striate punctation, pale j^ellow with reddish brown to 

 piceous markings, a humeral spot, a spot below scutellum common to 

 both elytra, a fascia that may be broken into spots across the middle 

 and another before the apex, the last frequently lunate in shape or 

 sometimes reduced to a spot. Body beneath entirely pale, the 

 femora pale, tibiae and tarsi brownish, all tibiae with a spine, claws 

 appendiculate, anterior coxal cavities open. Length 6-6.5 mm.; 

 width 3.3-3.5 mm. 



Type, male, BMNH, from Chontales, Nicaragua, collected by Janson. 



Other localities: Cubilguitz, Vera Pas, and Paso Antonio, Guate- 

 mala, 400 ft., collected by Champion. Punta Garda, British Hon- 

 duras, collected by Peck, Sept. 10-20, 1906. Trinidad River, Panama, 

 collected by A. Busck, May 6, 1911; Porto Bello, Panama, collected 

 by E. A. Schwartz, May 1, 1911, and by A. Busck, Feb. 18, 1912; 

 Cabima, Panama, collected by A. Busck, Maj 27, 1911. Ciricito, 

 Canal Zone, collected by R. E. Blackwelder, March 1930. 



Eccoptopsis costaricensis, new species 



Figure 89 



About 8 mm. in length, oblong oval, somewhat shiny; in the male 

 the front of the head excavated and the third and fourth antennal 

 joints swollen and excavated at adjoining ends, the prothorax deeply 

 sulcate, the elytra with feeble costae and with shallow geminate- 

 striate punctation between the costae, pale yellow brown with the 

 head on top piceous, the elytra with reddish brown markings. 



Head with interocular space approximatelj^ half width of head, a 

 deep median depression above the frontal tubercles, occiput piceous, 

 this deep color decreasing in lower front so that the mouthparts are 

 yellowish brown; under each antennal socket in the male a broadly 

 rounded shelf with long hairs, beneath which the lower front is deeply 

 excavated, and on each side a long curved spine. Antennae in the 



