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and has not been examined. In the National Museum Collection 
there is a single specimen collected at Paraiso, Canal Zone, Panama, 
March 20, 1911, by E. A. Schwarz, which agrees with the description 
given for this species with the exception that the lateral carina is not 
quite as close to the margin, and the median fascia is not very dis- 
tinct. The specimen has a strong violaceous tinge on the elytra, 
especially along the sides behind the middle, in which respect it agrees 
with the specimen described from Bugaba, but the abdominal seg- 
ment is subtruncate at the apex, and armed with series of distinct, 
short teeth, and is probably a female. 
BRACHYS ELEGANS, new species. 
Male.—Elongate, distinctly longer than wide, broadly rounded in 
front, nearly as wide behind as in front, strongly shining, and the 
elytra ornated with distinct pubescent designs; head aeneous in 
front, becoming violaceous on the occiput; pronotum, scutellum, and 
elytra piceous and strongly violaceous; beneath piceous. 
Head nearly flat, broadly, longitudinally grooved from occiput to 
epistoma, the groove rather shallow and becoming obsolete on the 
occiput; surface finely and rather densely punctured on the front, the 
punctures becoming more widely separated posteriorly, densely 
clothed with long, semierect, golden pubescence on the front, the 
pubescence sparser and more recumbent toward the occiput; inter- 
vals smooth; epistoma rather wide between the antennal cavities, 
flat, and not transversely carinate in front. Pronotum moderately 
convex, two and one-half times as wide as long at middle, distinctly 
narrower in front than behind, widest at base; sides obliquely atten- 
uate from base to anterior angles; anterior margin feebly, arcuately 
emarginate; base transversely truncate to middle of elytron, then 
turning obliquely backward to the scutellum, in front of which it is 
arcuately emarginate; posterior angles rather acute and projecting 
slightly beyond the elytra; surface broadly depressed at the sides, 
the depression extending obliquely from the anterior angles to the 
base at middle of elytron, then transversely along the base, causing 
the anterior median part of the disk to be regularly convex; there is 
a distinct straight carina on each side in the depressed area, which 
does not reach the base nor anterior margin, finely and sparsely 
punctate on the disk, with large, round, shallow punctures in the 
depressed areas, rather sparsely clothed with long, recumbent, cine- 
reous hairs, with two small spots of denser pubescence at the base 
close to the scutellum; intervals obsoletely granulated. Scutellum 
obsoletely granulated, triangular, anterior margin rounded. LElytra 
nearly as wide as pronotum at base; humeral angles obtusely angu- 
lated; sides nearly parallel to the middle (strongly sinuate at basal 
fourth), then arcuately attenuate to the tips, which are conjointly 
