NEW SPECIES OF BARK BEETLES--BLACKMAN 185 
stria impressed, punctures rather small; interspaces flat, rugulose, 
impunctate on disk and sides except near base and declivity; nearly 
entirely devoid of vestiture except for minute hairs from strial punc- 
tures. Declivity moderately steep, originating behind middle of 
elytra; suture elevated; first stria impressed, with obsolescent punc- 
tures; those on other striae somewhat reduced ; all interspaces, includ- 
ing the second, sparsely, uniseriately punctured and with a few moder- 
ately short, rather stout hairs. 
The male is unknown. 
Type locality —Taboga Island, Panama. 
Host.—Unknown. 
Type material—Holotype, U.S.N.M. No. 56002. 
The holotype was collected on Taboga Island, Republic of Panama, 
by H. F. Dietz. No other specimen has been seen. 
NEODRYOCOETES CARIBAEUS, new species 
Prare 20, Ficure 11 
Female.—Light reddish brown, 1.6-1.91 mm. long; holotype 1.75 
mm. long, 2.61 times as long as wide; allied to hymenacae Eggers and 
amazonicus Eggers. 
Frons somewhat flattened between eyes, strongly reticulate, punc- 
tures shallow, fine, rather close, with very fine, rather short hairs; 
median carina fine, elevated ; vertex less closely punctured, median line 
broadly impunctate. Eye very large, with facets coarse, nearly half 
divided by an emargination. Antenna (fig. 11) with club obovate, 
1.25 times as long as wide, about 1.45 times as long as funicle, first su- 
ture arcuate, strongly, incompletely septate. 
Pronotum 1.09 times as long as wide, widest through base, posterior 
outline arcuate, margined, posterior angles rounded, sides weakly, 
nearly evenly arcuate from base to weak constriction in front of 
middle, broadly rounded in front, with anterior margin bearing nu- 
merous very small serrations; dorsal contour evenly arcuate from base 
to apex; anterior area with irregular concentric rows of low, broad 
asperities ; posterior area glabrous, subopaque, its surface finely reticu- 
late, moderately finely, shallowly punctured with outer rims of punc- 
tures elevated; median line broad at base, somewhat narrowed 
anteriorly, impunctate. 
Elytra slightly wider than pronotum, 1.61 times as long as wide, 
1.58 times as long as pronotum; sides subparallel on anterior two- 
thirds, moderately rounded behind; surface shining; strial rows 
slightly irregular, punctures small, rather shallow, only first stria 
weakly impressed ; interspaces rugulose, with a few single, fine punc- 
tures; sides confusedly punctured from fifth to seventh interspaces, 
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