64 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. VOL. 62. 
TAPHROCERUS ALBOFASCIATUS, new species. 
Female.—Elongate, strongly attenuate posteriorly, moderately 
convex and strongly flattened on top, with pubescent spots above, 
head greenish-bronze, pronotum and elytra bottle-green, with a strong 
violaceous tinge, scutellum brown; beneath piceous, with a strong 
aeneous tinge. 
Head much narrower than pronotum at base, feebly convex and 
broadly flattened in front of epistoma, with a rather shallow, longi- 
tudinal groove extending from the occiput to the middle of the front, 
where it is connected to a wide, transverse depression; surface very 
sparsely, irregularly, and coarsely punctate, the punctures becoming 
much finer and nearly obsolete on the occiput and near the epistoma, 
clothed with long, recumbent, cinereous pubescence, the hairs becom- 
ing denser in the flattened area in front of epistoma and along the 
eyes; intervals finely and densely granulated. Pronotum moderately 
convex, nearly two times as wide as long, considerably narrower in 
front than behind, widest near the middle; sides when viewed from 
above are strongly, arcuately rounded to the basal fourth, then par- 
allel to the posterior angles, which are rectangular; anterior margin 
feebly sinuate, and broadly lobed at middle; base transversely 
truncate to middle of the elytron, then turning obliquely backward 
to the scutellum, in front of which it is feebly arcuately emarginate; 
surface with a broad, obsolete depression along anterior margin, and 
a more narrowly obsolete one along the sides, obsoletely concave in 
front of scutellum, with a large transverse depression on each side, 
which is prolonged obliquely toward the anterior angles, these depres- 
sions cause the anterior part of the disk to be rather strongly convex, 
and with a rather broad gibbosity on each side near the posterior 
angles, with large shallow punctures placed rather closely in the 
depression, from the center of each arises a rather long, recumbent, 
yellowish hair; intervals and convex areas finely and densely granu- 
lated. Scutellum triangular, obsoletely reticulate, feebly rounded in 
front. Elytra feebly convex, strongly flattened on top, wider than 
pronotum at base; humeral angles obtusely angulated; sides strongly 
arcuately concave from the humeral angles to the middle, where they 
are broadly rounded and slightly wider than at the base, then rather 
strongly attenuate to the tips, which are separately, broadly rounded, 
and obsoletely serrate; humeri well developed; each elytron with a 
broad, moderately deep basal depression, and with a very distinct 
lateral carina extending from the humerus to near the apex, but not 
quite reaching it, the carina strongly sinuate and following the curves 
of the sides of the elytron; surface with several rows of coarse, shallow 
punctures, the rows varying somewhat in length, but not extending 
beyond the middle, the pubescent areas are finely and densely punc- 
