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with long, dense, recumbent, more or less wavy, brownish white and 

 whitish pubescence. Scutellum strongly transverse, broadly rounded 

 at apex, longitudinally glabrous at middle, densely clothed with 

 long, recumbent, brownish Avhite pubescence at sides. 



Elytra four times as long as pronotum, distinctly wider than pro- 

 notum at base ; humeri strongly elevated and each armed with a gla- 

 brous, obtuse tubercle ; sides strongly, obliquely narrowed from base 

 to near the tips, which are separatelj^ broadly rounded ; disk moder- 

 ately convex; surface coarsely, sparsely, irregularly punctate, densely 

 clothed with long, recumbent, brownish-white pubescence, and in- 

 conspicuously ornamented posteriorly with numerous short, narrow, 

 wavy, whitish pubescent lines. 



Body beneath densely clothed with long, recumbent, brownish- 

 white pubescence, which conceals the surface; the legs variegated 

 with dark brown pubescence ; last abdominal segment feebly emargi- 

 nate or subtruncate at apex. 



Length, 17 mm ; width, 8 mm. 



Type locality. — Barbados, British West Indies. 



ry/>«'.— U.S.k.M. no. 50976. 



Remarks. — Described from a single specimen from the Wickham 

 collection labeled " Chelston, Barbados, Lady Morris, 11-12-06, No. 

 834." 



This species is allied to picticornis Bates, but it differs from that 

 species in having the upper surface densely clothed with brownish 

 white pubescence and the elytra inconspicuously ornamented pos- 

 teriorly with short, narrow^, wavy, whitish pubescent lines. 



SPALACOPSIS ORNATIPENNIS, new species 



Very slender, strongly flattened above, uniformly dark reddish 

 brown, the antennal joints slightly paler at bases, and densely clothed 

 above with very short, whitish and dark brown pubescence. 



Head beneath finely, sparsely punctate, densely clothed with short, 

 curly, white hairs; above sparsely, finely punctate, rather densely 

 clothed with short, recumbent, brownish-yelloAV hairs, with a few 

 short, erect, white hairs intermixed, and ornamented with three longi- 

 tudinal vittae of dense, short, recumbent, yellowish white pubescence, 

 one median and one on each side along lateral margin. Antenna about 

 as long as the body, rather densely clothed with short, recumbent, yel- 

 lowish hairs, with numerous erect hairs intermixed, and densely ciliate 

 beneath with long. Hying, blackish hairs. 



Pronotum twice as long as wide, subequal in width at base and 

 apex, subcylindrical; sides feebly sinuate, parallel; disk strongly 

 convex; surface coarsely, sparsely, irregularly punctate, densely 

 clothed with short, recumbent, brownish-yellow and yellowish-white 



