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CORISID^. 



CoRisA ABDOMiNALis Say. This species was found at 

 Comondu, in March, and at El Paraiso, in May, by Mr. 

 C. D. Haines. 



CORISA INSCRIPTA n. Sp. 



Elongate, with a short head and long, nearly triangular 

 pronotum, the ground color pale dull testaceous marked 

 with dark brown very slender short lines in uneven long- 

 itudinal series. Head highly polished, moderately con- 

 vex, a little triangularly expanded against the pronotum, 

 with the occipital submargin linearly impressed, and the 

 middle acuminate ; middle of vertex of female with a few 

 scattered punctures and a feebly elevated longitudinal 

 line; face a little hairy, a little depressed in the female, 

 with the front of vertex correspondingly convex, fossa of 

 the male ovate, with the narrow end below, occupying 

 nearly all of the width between the lower end of the eyes 

 and most of the face. Pronotum highly polished, with 

 the medial carina barely suggested, the surface convex 

 and crossed by about fourteen brown slender lines, the 

 anterior angle with a yellow bare spot, and behind it the 

 submargin is broadly impressed. The pleural pieces 

 pale dull yellow, the sternum of the same color, but the 

 prosternum and a streak outside of the middle coxoi black 

 in the male. Palaj of male short, wide depressed, very 

 broad-cultrate with the lower margin concave, set with 

 very long bristles, and an acute tip; palai of female a lit- 

 tle longer, deeply excavated. Clavus wide and long, 

 with the yellow bands at base straight, broad and almost 

 complete, those continuing back form two submarginal 

 series of more slender wavy, uneven lines; lines of the 

 corium slender, continuing back in about four wavy 

 stripes, which continue less regularl}' upon the mem- 



