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latissimo, tuberculia sat magnis, ordinibua sinaatis, irregulariter dispositis, inter- 

 Btitiisque glabris, nitidis, ornato, lateribas sat late- marginatis, margin 



gine basali valde depreasa, reflexa, el Binuata, angulia acutis, vix productis, 

 flavis; elytris rufo-fuscia, brevibus, capite atque pronoto vix longioribus aut latiori- 

 bus, prope media latissimis, postice parum contracti8, ordinibua transveraia mod 

 aaperati8, Lnteratitiis nitidis, lateribas modice rotundatis, apicibus latis, rotunda 



fcremis albidia ; abdomine longiu8 i , obtuso, apice tridentato ; pedibus -ai 



longis, lsete flavis; antennis Longis, gracUibus, flavis, clavis fusceacentil 



oblong, very convex, Bhining, brownish Mack, clothed with yellow hair. 



Head Large, rounded in front, remotely tuberculate; eyes large, not prominent; 

 antennas long and slender, yellow with the club dusky. 



Tin, rar large, broader and much longer than the head, widest near the middle, 

 ornamented with rather large tubercles in irregular wavy rows, Interstices 

 smooth and Bhining, Bides broadly margined, margin yellow, basal margin 

 much depressed, r< ad sinuated with the angles acute, scarcely pro- 



duced, yellow. 



ScuteUum large, triangular, rugosely asperated. 



/ \ytra rufo-fuscous, not longer or broader than the head and thorax, widest near 

 the middle, slightly contracted posteriorly, moderately asperate in transverse 

 rows, interstices shining, sides moderately rounded, extremities broad, rounded, 

 with the edge white. 



Abdomen rather long, obtuse, tridentate at the apex. 



/ i long, bright yellow. 



Under parts black, with the mouth and coxae yellow. 



Differs from '/'. discolor in its smaller size, rufo-fuscous elytra, and in sculpture. 



Habitat, Central America. Found in Guatemala by Mr. Champion. 



Trichopteryx occidentalis. 



/'. identalis, Matthews, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 6, xiii. 1894, p. 339. 



L. c. 1 ';- 1 v, lin. = - 7»"> 0*87 mm.— Ovata, lati on vexa, postice attenu 



pite atque pronoto nigris, elytris fuscis, pilia flavescenti -tita : ca\ 



magno, lato, oculis modicia baud prominentibus, antennis longis, gracUibus, flavis; 

 pronoto magno, ad basim valde dilatato, nigro, tuberculia modicia ordinibua irregu- 

 laribus confertim dispositis, interstitiisque nitidis, leviter reticulatia ornato. lateribua 

 leviter marginatis, margine basali leviter Binuata, angulis latis, valde product 

 plus minusve rufescentibus ; elytris fuscis, brevilms, capite atque pror 

 angustioribus, umlto brevioribus, ad humi ros latissimis, profunde et confertim 



is, interstitiia reticula - marginatis, i ctis, apicibuE 



rotundatis; abdomine modici libua modicia, flavis. 



Bod<i ovate, very broad, convex, attenuated posteriorly, head and thorax black, 

 elytra fuscous, thickly clothed with flavescent hair. 



Head large and broad; eyes moderate, not prominent: antenna long and Blender, 

 yellow. 



Thorax large, much dilated at the base, black, ornami nted with moderate ; 



closely placed in irregular rows with the ■ - shining and faintly reticu- 



lata slightly margined, basal margin faintly Binuated with the angles 



broad, much produced, more or lea 



ScuteUum moderate, triangular, asperated. 



■us. short, rather narrower and much shorter than the head and thoi 

 widest at the shoulders, attenuated towards th« apex, deeply and closely 

 asperated, with the interstices reticulated, sides margin ht, 



extremities slightly rounded. 



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