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EPIMELITTA NIGERRIMA var. FLAVIPUBESCENS, new variety 
This variety differs from the typical form of nigerrima Bates as 
follows: Dark reddish brown, posterior tarsi and apical halves of pos- 
terior femora and tibiae reddish yellow, and the posterior tibiae with 
a dense tuft of long, yellow hairs covering the greater part of the 
tibiae. 
Lenth 14 mm., width 3.5 mm. 
Type locality.—_LaCaja (near San José), Costa Rica. 
Type.—uU.S.N.M. No. 57682. 
Remarks.—Described from a single female collected during Decem- 
ber 1929 by H. Schmidt. 
Genus TOMOPTERUS Audinet-Serville 
TOMOPTERUS FLAVOFASCIATUS, new species 
Female.—Form similar to Tomopterus quadratipennis Bates. Head 
prolonged into a short snout, black except labrum, which is brownish 
yellow; surface densely, coarsely punctate on occiput and behind 
labrum, with a rather broad, longitudinal groove between the eyes, 
rather densely clothed with recumbent, yellowish hairs; eyes large, 
deeply emarginate, and separated from each other on the front by 
about twice the diameter of the first antennal segment. Antenna 
brownish yellow, subopaque, gradually expanded toward apex; seg- 
ment 1 robust, slightly expanded toward apex; segments 2 to 4 cylin- 
drical, the third twice as long as fourth; the following segments sub- 
equal in length, robust, and subcylindrical or subtriangular. 
Pronotum black, quadrate, subequal in width at base and apex, 
widest in front of middle; sides arcuately rounded in front of middle, 
slightly, obliquely converging posteriorly; disk strongly convex, nar- 
rowly, transversely depressed along base and anterior margin; surface 
coarsely, deeply, confluently ocellate-punctate, sparsely clothed with 
inconspicuous, erect hairs and ornamented with short, recumbent, 
yellow pubescence as follows: A narrow fascia along base and anterior 
margin, and a narrow, arcuate, median fascia, extending to lateral 
margins at middle. Scutellum very large, elongate, coarsely punctate, 
densely clothed at apex with recumbent, yellowish pubescence. 
Elytra very short, not extending to base of abdomen, the tips 
broadly rounded exteriorly and more or less obliquely toward sutural 
margins, black, and each elytron with a narrow, oblique brownish- 
yellow vitta (color paler posteriorly) extending from humeral region 
to apex at middle, and a triangular brownish-yellow spot at scutellum ; 
surface coarsely, deeply, confluently ocellate-punctate, and sparsely 
clothed with short, inconspicuous, erect hairs. 
Abdomen beneath brownish black, finely, densely punctate and 
granulose, densely clothed with short, recumbent, whitish hairs, which 
