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line each side next the eyes, and with a few slender black 

 borders of the sutures; the tylus and a line of corre- 

 sponding width behind it blackish; labrum pale brown, 

 the rostrum piceous and reaching to behind the middle 

 cox£e; antennge brownish testaceous, obscured with fus- 

 cous above, and more especially upon the basal and apical 

 joints. Pronotum wider than long, pale brownish, a little 

 tinged with fulvous, deeply punctate in blackish, some- 

 what transversely, in confluent rows, the lateral margin 

 slenderly reflexed, diagonal in a direct line, which is in- 

 terrupted behind by the over-swelhng of the end of the 

 callosities; callosities blackish, the constriction before 

 them pale fulvous, sunken and very minutely punctate, 

 the middle line black raised, and a trace each side also 

 black; humeral angles tumid, oblique, pale, punctate in 

 part. Scutellum roughly punctate, the raised y-shaped 

 line blackish, with a testaceous tip. Prostethium chieflv 

 dull black, punctate, margined behind with testaceous, 

 the meso- and meta-stermim black, and this color is 

 carried over upon the basal segment of the venter; the 

 pleural segments and first ring of venter each with a laro-e 

 black spot exteriorly, the osteolar piece ivory white. 

 Legs fulvo-testaceous, the femora faintly flecked with 

 brown. Hemielytra pale testaceous, remotely and finely 

 punctate; the costal margin strongly reflexed, moderately 

 carinate; the veins thick, the inner and apical bounding 

 veins of the clavus each with a dark piceous streak, and 

 the radial and discoidal veins with a larger dark streak on 

 the middle of each, the posterior border with three dark 

 brown streaks. Venter with three yellow spots each side 

 which are bordered with black. 



Length to end of abdomen, 23/(-3 mm. Width of pro- 

 notum, I full mm. 



Several specimens were taken at San Julio, in April, 

 by Mr. C. D. Haines. 



