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and probably deeply excavate in the male; pale yeUow brown 

 with the tips of jaws brownish, impunctate. Antennae not extending 

 to the middle of the elytra; in the female with the third joint long, the 

 remainder shorter and subequal, pale with a slight deepening in color 

 in the intermediate joints; the third and fourth joints in the male 

 probably deformed. Prothorax nearly twice as wide as long, with 

 slightly rounded sides and a transverse sulcus, alutaceous, nearly 

 impunctate, entirely pale yeUow. Scutellum pale. Elytra long and 

 strongly costate, with 8 or 9 costae on each elytron, the intervals 

 being coarsely geminate punctate, pale yellow brown with deep 

 reddish brown markings consisting of a lateral vitta extending from the 

 humerus nearly to the apex, a median spot near the base, and a median 

 and apical fascia, both connected along the suture and side, the apical 

 fascia semilunate. Body beneath entirely pale, legs pale with a slight 

 brownish tinge along the lower tibiae, anterior coxal cavities open, 

 claws appendiculate, middle and hind tibiae with a spine. Length 

 7 mm.; width 3.5 mm. 



Type, female, MCZ 30678, from Salinas, Beni River, Bolivia, 

 collected by M. Stuart, July 1895. 



Remarks: The single female from which this species is described 

 was among the specimens under N. denticornis Jacoby in the Bowditch 

 collection. In its elytral pattern it is similar to but unlike that species 

 in having a dark lateral vitta as well as a shorter dark sutiu-al one. 

 Although no male has been examined, the male undoubtedly has the 

 front of the face excavated and some peculiarity of the third and 

 fourth antennal joints such as occurs in denticornis. In the female 

 the third antennal joint is longer than the fourth, as is usual in this 

 genus. 



Eccoptopsis clara, new species 



Figure 93 



Between 7 and 7.5 mm. in length, elongate oblong oval, shining, the 

 head in the male excavate, and the third and fourth antennal joints 

 enlarged and cut out at adjoining ends, the prothorax with a transverse 

 depression, the elytra with a broad basal and apical dark blue fascia, 

 the breast, tibiae and tarsi dark brown. 



Head in male with an excavation below the antennal sockets and 

 on either side a rounded shelf fringed with long hairs and curving 

 down over the hoUowed out lower front; in the female the area below 

 the antennal sockets shaUowly scooped out without any trace of a 

 carina, frontal tubercles in the male swoUen with a depression above 

 them, in the female not so swollen, a median depression above; 

 interocular space more than half width of head, head entirely black 

 and shiny. Antennae in male with the basal joint enlarged, the third 

 and fourth joints much enlarged and excavate at the apex of the thu'd 



