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not quite as long as wide, the parallel sides evenly and feebly arcuate, rapidly 

 rounding and oblique in apical fourth, the truncate apex fully half as wide 

 as the base; punctures deep and very dense, largely concealed by the dense 

 scales; elytra three-fifths longer than wide, about as wide as the prothorax 

 and nearly four-fifths longer, the parallel sides straight behind the feebly 

 tumid humeri, rapidly circularly rounded and obtuse at apex; striae not 

 very fine, deep, the densely punctate flat intervals alternating greatly in 

 width; abdomen densely squamose, not definitely modified sexually, the 

 prosternum unarmed as usual. Length 4.4 mm.; width 1.7 mm. Brazil 

 (Chapada). November. One specimen fasciatus n. sp. 



Body almost similar in all respects to the preceding, except, as represented by 

 the female, it is very much smaller in size, with the loose pale pronotal scales 

 pervading most of the surface, besides the oblong dense latero-basal spots; 

 elytra with the same disposition of the dense white scales, except that the 

 submedian fascia is narrower and less evenly parallel, being zigzag in form 

 throughout; beak ( 9 ) differing completely from that of the preceding male 

 type, being very slender, evenly cylindric, nearly smooth except at base, 

 strongly, evenly arcuate and not quite as long as the prothorax, the antennae 

 just visibly beyond the middle; prothorax as in the preceding? scutellum a 

 little smaller; elytra also almost exactly as in the preceding, except that 

 the intervals are equal in width among themselves. Length 2.8 mm.; 

 width 1.2 mm. Brazil (Chapada). November. A single female example. 



minor n. sp. 



3 — Parallel, moderately convex, rather shining, deep black throughout; squam- 

 ules above whitish, very fine, rather sparse and even on the pronotum, but 

 wanting in a large transverse area behind the middle; on the elytra dense 

 and coarse along the medial part of all the intervals near the base, finer and 

 loosely aggregated in a broad transverse medial fascia, which is obsolescent 

 toward the sides, and also with a few isolated small scales near the apex; 

 squamules beneath very small, within the punctures, dense and conspicuous 

 on the met-episterna, almost wanting on the shining abdomen, closer on the 

 rather densely punctate fifth segment; beak in the type somewhat thick, 

 finely, sparsely punctate, more closely and strongly toward base, somewhat 

 arcuate and only three-fifths as long as the prothorax; antennae blackish 

 and near apical third; prothorax nearly as long as wide, the parallel sides 

 evenly and moderately arcuate, rapidly rounding and sinuously oblique in 

 about apical fourth, the truncate apex much more than half as wide as the 

 base; punctures moderate, separated by a little more than their diameters, 

 finer and sparser in the large vacant subbasal area; scutellum small, ob- 

 triangular, smooth; elytra three-fifths longer than wide, parallel, with 

 straight sides, rapidly very obtuse at apex and with feebly tumid humeri, 

 barely visibly wider than the prothorax and not quite twice as long, the striae 

 fine, minutely punctate; interstitial punctures sparse and minute, somewhat 

 confused. Length 3.5 mm.; width 1.35 mm. Brazil (Santarem). One 

 specimen subdenudatus n. sp. 



The last species I have separated subgenerically, but it is more 

 likely to prove generically distinct; the type is probably a male, 

 although there are no abdominal modifications. 



Paratorcus n. gen. 



In this genus the body is parallel, more depressed than in the 

 preceding, shining and irregularly and only partially clothed. The 



