564 rROCEEDINGt< OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. tol. 46. 



DESCRIPTION OF GENERA AND SPECIES. 



Genus COPICERUS Swartz. 



Jeralia Guerin. 

 Holatus Walker. 



Body relatively large. Cephalic and thoracic carinas not very 

 strong; frons tricarinate, moderately broad between eyes; clypeus 

 tricarinate; eyes deeply emarginate beneath. AntennoB very large, 

 long, foliaceous, and thin, thinner on superior margin than below, 

 coarsely pubescent; second segment longer than first; flagellum long. 

 Pronotum moderately long. Scutellum tricarinate, long. Legs long; 

 femora scarcely enlarged; calcar long, spiniform, terete, acute at tip, 

 slightly pubescent; hind tibiae with three lateral spines. Elytra long, 

 more or less maculate, veins darkly setigerous on black tubercles; 

 venation variable, with more veins in membrane than in most other 

 genera. 



Tyjpe of genus. — Copicerus irroratus Swartz. 



This genus is easily distinguishable by its unusually large and 

 foliaceous antennae and large elytra. Its distribution seems to be 

 entirely southern. 



COPICERUS IRJRORATUS Swartz. 



Plate 44, figs. A-F, H-K. 



Copicerus irroratus Swartz '02: 81.— StAl ^57: 338.— Van Duzee '97: 230.— 



SwEZEY '04: 31.— Fowler '81: 130. 

 Jeralia singula Walker '85: 85. 

 Copicerus stvartzii StAl '57: 339. 



Length of body 4.7 mm. ; width of vertex between eyes 2.5; greatest 

 width of frons 3.5; length of antennae: I, 1.3; II, 1.8. General color 

 brown to dark brown; frons with several black spots; antennae and 

 legs spotted with black; elytra black, setigerous-punctate. 



Head moderately large, carinae rather inconspicuous; vertex 

 rather broad; frons broadest at apex; clypeus long. Eyes large, 

 black, deeply emarginate beneath. Antennae long, very prominent, 

 more than half as long as entire body; I constricted at base and apex, 

 II narrower apically, a little longer than I; flagellum almost as 

 long as I. 



Thorax broad, punctate; pronotum long with a shallow fovea on 

 each side; lateral carinas short, inconspicuous; scutellum long, more 

 deeply and closely punctate laterad than doi-sad. Legs long, banded 

 with black; calcar long, very acute at tip, slightly pubescent. Elytra 

 very long, large, brownish, with an oblique brown macula over apical 

 cells and lighter area on costal margin midway between base and apex; 

 veins set closely with setigerous tubercles and a small brown spot 

 around each tubercle; corium lighter in color. 



Abdomen long, depressed, oval. 



