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the humeral angle to near the apex, and with two obsolete costae 
on the disk; surface finely and rather densely punctate, with a few 
larger punctures toward the base and sides, the basal half is sparsely 
clothed with long, recumbent, blackish hairs (with a few cinereous 
ones intermixed); at the middle there is a broad irregular fascia of 
cinereous hairs, and a similar fascia at the apical fourth; between 
the two fasciae and the apical fifth the surface is rather densely 
clothed with long, recumbent, black hairs; intervals smooth. Abdo- 
men beneath strongly convex, sparsely punctate, the punctures large, 
obsolete, and open on the one side, sparsely clothed with rather long, 
recumbent cinereous hairs; intervals finely and densely granulated; 
last segment broadly rounded at the apex, with a series of short, 
round teeth along the margin. 
Length, 4.25 mm.; width, 2.3 mm. 
Type locality —Trinidad River, Panama. 
Type.—Cat. No. 25112, U.S.N.M. 
Described from a unique female collected by August Busck 
March 21, 1912. 
BRACHYS PILOSUS, new species. 
Male.—Broadly cuneiform, distinctly longer than wide, broadly 
rounded in front, slightly narrower behind than in front, moderately 
shining and pubescent, uniformly brown, with a strong aeneous tinge; 
beneath piceous. 
Head transversely flattened behind the epistoma, with two smooth 
feeble gibbosities on the vertex, rather broadly, longitudinally 
grooved from occiput to the flattened area on front, the groove 
rather deep on the vertex, but becoming nearly obsolete posteriorly; 
surface coarsely and densely punctured on the flattened area behind 
the epistoma, the punctures finer and more widely separated on the 
occiput, and becoming obsolete on the gibbosities, clothed with rather 
long pale-yellow pubescence, the pubescence dense and erect behind 
the epistoma, becoming sparser and recumbent posteriorly, and 
obsolete on the gibbosities; intervals finely, densely, and obsoletely 
granulated; epistoma narrow between the antennal cavities, surface 
flat, with a feebly transverse carina near the anterior margin. Pro- 
notum moderately convex, about two times as wide as long at 
middle, distinctly narrower in front than behind, widest at base; 
sides arcuately attenuate from base to anterior angles; anterior 
margin nearly truncate; base transversely truncate to middle of 
elytron, then turning obliquely backward to the scutellum, in front 
of which it is feebly, arcuately emarginate; posterior angles nearly 
rectangular; surface broadly flattened at the sides, the depression 
extending obliquely from the anterior angles to the base at middle 
of the elytron, and then transversely along the base, causing the 
