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Holotype. — Male, Porto Bello, Panama, February 25, 1911, E. A. 

 Schwarz, collector. 



Allotype. — Porto Bello, Panama, February 20, 1911, E. A. 

 Schwarz, collector. Both types in the United States National 

 Museum. 



Types.—Q^^i. No. 40082 U.S.N.M. 



This species is the smallest of the members of the genus Nobis 

 known to me. It apparently belongs with Renter's subgenus 

 Lasiovierus^ which includes N. annulatus Renter, co7ist7nctus Cham- 

 l^ion, spinicrus Renter, and villosipes Stal {villosipes not known to 

 me). It agrees with the first three in its general coloration and 

 appearance (though being not quite so elongate), in its constricted 

 hemielytra which ^re clothed along their costal margin with slender 

 hairs, in the punctate collar and posterior lobe of the pronotum, and 

 finally in the character of the hairs on the under surface of the 

 anterior femora and the general shape of the male clasper. From 

 these species, however, it differs in the shorter head which is not 

 produced and not parallel sided behind the eyes, the arched anterior 

 lobe of the pronotum, and the form of the canals leading from the 

 odoriferous orifices. 



10. METATROPIPHORUS BELFRAGII Reuter 



Cuba: Santaiago de Las Vegas, October 15, 1923, J. Acuna, col- 

 lector. Mississippi : Woodville, July 26, 1921, C. J. Drake, collector. 

 Illinois: Dubois, July 3, 1909. 



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