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margin slightly extended and with distinct, rather fine serrations; 
dorsal contour nearly evenly arcuate, without elevated summit or trans- 
verse impression ; anterior area with rather dense, irregularly arranged 
asperities, not extending back of middle at sides; posterior area smooth, 
shining, glabrous, only faintly reticulate, with punctures small and 
sparse; median line impunctate, very feebly elevated anteriorly. 
Elytra scarcely wider than pronotum, 1.54 times as long as wide, 
1.47 times as long as pronotum; sides subparallel on anterior two- 
thirds, then gradually arcuately narrowed, moderately rounded be- 
hind; surface brightly shining; strial rows nearly regular except near 
base, first striae weakly, the others not at all impressed; interspaces 
flat, distinctly rugulose, with a few punctures, similar in size to those 
of striae, hairs few in number, short and inconspicuous except behind. 
Declivity originating well behind middle, moderately sloping; suture 
weakly elevated, finely punctured, not granulate; first stria distinctly 
impressed, punctures scarcely reduced, second stria very feebly im- 
pressed ; lateral elevations low, no higher than suture; vestiture con- 
sisting of short, erect, rather stout, yellowish hairs. 
Female.—Similar to male in habitus, with frons flattened from eye 
to eye, finely, densely punctured, with numerous yellow hairs of mod- 
erate length. (The female is represented by only a single broken 
specimen. ) 
Ty pe locality —Unknown. 
Host—Erythrina cristagalli. 
Type material—Holotype, allotype, and one paratype, U.S.N.M. 
No. 56001. 
The type series was taken from seeds of Hrythrina cristagalli in a 
shipment of seeds from Paris, France, December 3, 1930, at the plant 
quarantine inspection house at Washington, D.C. The original source | 
of the seeds is unknown. 
NEODRYOCOETES TERES, new species 
PLATE 21, Fiaure 16 
Female.—Piceous-brown; 1.43 mm. long, 2.63 times as long as wide. 
Frons shining, flattened between eyes, very finely, very densely punc- | 
tured, with numerous rather long, fine, yellowish hairs; median line | 
not elevated to form carina. Eye moderately large, facets of moderate | 
size, about one-third divided by the emargination. Antenna (fig. 16) | 
with club broadly obovate, 1.16 times as long as wide, 1.50 times as | 
long as funicle, first suture moderately arcuate, incompletely, not 
strongly septate ; second and third sutures rather indistinctly indicated | 
by setal rows. | 
Pronotum 1.07 times as long as wide, widest near base, posterior | 
outline feebly arcuate, distinctly margined, posterior angles scarcely | 
