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tantly placed as the interstitial spaces. Interstices almost flat, not punctate, 

 feebly rugose. Joints of tarsi (PI. V, Fig. le) gradually decreasing in length from 

 first to fourth. Ungues with basal angles strongly produced (PI. V, Fig. If) 

 Antennal joints two and three sub-equal, sylindrical, three almost as long as four. 

 Joints four to ten elongate triangular, joint eleven suboval not strongly constricted. 



Length, 3 to 4 mm. 



Type locality: Independencia, Parahyba, Brazil. 



Type: No. 9048 deposited in Mus. Comp. Zool., Harvard University. 



Parafypes: Three specimens from type locality. 



Type and paratypes collected by Messrs. W. W. Mann and Harold Heath. 



Tliis species, which is named in honor of Dr. W. M. Mann, will 

 fall near Drasterius pullatus Cand. in Candeze's Monograph. 



Monocrepidius madeirensis sp. nov. (PI. V, Fig. 2aJ. 



Moderately elongate, depressed, length four and two-third times width, moder- 

 atelj' dense and finely yellow pubescent. General color reddish yellow or amber. 

 Head concolorous with body, marked by two parenthesis-shaped infuscate vittae on 

 vertex, eyes dark brown; pronotum with a pair of parenthesis-shaped dark brown 

 vitta which attain the anterior margin. Elytra slightly darker than the prothorax 

 with two brown transverse bands, one before the middle and the other halfway be- 

 tween this band and the apex, and a median longitudinal vitta which extends from 

 the scutellum to the anterior transverse band. Scutellum and humeral angles yellow. 

 Ventron bro^vnish yellow. Legs and antennae yellow. Front slightly convex, 

 finely punctate, anterior margin feebly rounded, terminal joint of maxilliary palpi 

 securiform. Antennal joints two and three small, together not quite equal to four, 

 joint three longer than two (PI. V, Fig. 2b). Prothorax longer than broad, sides 

 feebly rounded, convergent anteriorly from middle, quite depressed, pronotum with 

 slightly unequal punctuation; posterior angles very slightly divergent, unicarinate, 

 carina almost fused with lateral margin to base of posterior angles where they di- 

 verge, carina not much longer than angles. Elytra two and one-fourth times length 

 of prothorax, almost as wide as latter, punctate striate, interstices slightly convex, 

 not spinose at tips. Fourth tarsal joint (PI. V, Fig. 2c) bearing a large broad lobe 

 easily seen from above. 



Length, 7 mm. 



Type locality: Rio Madeira, Brazil. 



Type: No. 9047 Mus. Comp. Zcbl. Harvard University. 



Type collected by W. M. Mann and F. Baker. 



This species is named from the type locality and is near depressi- 

 pennis Cand. 



Monocrepidius bakeri sp. nov. (PI. V, 3a). 



Elongate, slender, three and one-half times as long as broad, moderately convex, 

 vestiture yellow, dense and very fine. General color infuscate amber; head black, 

 labrum black, antennae amber, under parts of head and palpi yellow; pronotum 



