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broadly rounded, with the lateral margins entire; humeri prominent. 
Kach elytron with a broad, shallow depression at the base, and a 
deeper one behind the humerus between the lateral carina and lateral 
margin, and with a distinct lateral carma, which is sinuate and strongly 
elevated at the humerus, and extending from the humeral angle to 
near the apex; with two fine lines of dark-brown hairs (the external 
one more obsolete) extending from the base to the middle; the basal 
third is sparsely clothed with recumbent, blackish hairs, the space 
near the scutelium (between the suture and pubescent line) is clothed 
with cinereous hairs and bordered behind by fulvous hairs; at a 
short distance from the base, between the first and second pubescent 
lines, there is a small spot of cinereous pubescence; at the middle 
there is a well-marked, moderately broad fascia of recumbent, cine- 
reous hairs, inclosing a small, round, dark spot situated between the 
second pubescent line and the lateral carina; the fascia has the 
margins irregular and extends from the first pubescent line to the . 
lateral margin; close to the suture and slightly posterior to the fascia 
is a small spot of fulvous hairs bordered posteriorly by cinereous 
hairs; behind the median fascia there is a broad, transverse space 
sparsely clothed with semierect, black hairs; and the apical fifth is 
clothed with recumbent, cinereous pubescence, inclosing a round, 
dark, spot; sparsely and rather finely punctate, with a series of 
coarser punctures on each side of the pubescent lines; intervals 
nearly smooth. Abdomen beneath rather densely punctate, the 
punctures large, shallow, open on the one side, and from each punc- 
ture arises a rather long, recumbent, cinereous hair; intervalssmooth, 
becoming obsoletely granulated on the last segment, which is broadly 
rounded posteriorly and very finely dentate at the apex. 
Length, 3.1 mm.; width, 1.6 mm. 
Type locality.—Paraiso, Canal Zone, Panama. 
Type.—Cat. No. 25116, U.S.N.M. 
Described from a single male specimen collected by E. A. Schwarz 
February 11, 1911. 
BRACHYS ORNATUS, new species. 
Male.—Hlongate, distinctly longer than wide, broadly rounded in 
front, slightly narrower behind than in front, moderately shining, 
and the elytra ornated with distinct transverse pubescent fasciae; 
head slightly aeneous in front, becoming slightly cupreous on the 
occiput; pronotum, scutellum, and elytra piceous, with a strong, 
cupreous and greenish reflection ; beneath piceous, with a strong 
aeneous reflection. 
Head nearly flat, broadly, longitudinally grooved from epistoma 
to occiput, the groove quite deep on the front and vertex, and becom- 
ing more obsolete near the epistoma and on the occiput; surface 
finely and rather densely punctate, the punctures becoming more 
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