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9. Head, pronotum and limb* awrc decidedly marbled with the 

 paler and more reddish brown. Abdomen dark brown, faintly and very 

 widely puncute with a paler shade. Tegmina very dark brown with a 

 buffy marking filling the brief exposed portion of the dorsal field. 



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The series lieforc iis. in addttioo to the type and allotype, 

 inay be considered paratypk. 



Specimens examined, 5 ; 3 males and 2 females. 



Tukeit. British Guiana, VIT. 18 to ai. 191 1 (F. E. Lutz). 

 2^,29 (Am. Mils. Nat Hist]. 



Rockstone, British Guiana, VII, 9, 191 1 (Crampton and 

 Lutz), I i (Am. Mus. Nat Hist]. 



HygroaeoMbios iHwImilii (Samsttrt). 



1874. Nemobims d itm m Ht Sauwro, Miss. Sci. Ilex., Rech. ZooL, 

 VI. p. 387. (4. 9. Braaaj 



1901. NewMbius sptaM McNcHI, Proc. WadL Acad. Sci, III, p. 

 503. (a 8 and ao immature iadivtdnals, Tagns Cbve. AlbemaHe Isfand, 

 Gabpagos Islands.) 



McNeill's description and figures leave little room for doubt 

 as to the synonymy of his N. ipeatii with the present spedes. 

 The two adult males descrihed by him agree in all essential 

 details with those before us. That author gives 3 and 3 spines 

 for the margins of the caudal tibiae and 6 spurs, apparently 

 overlooking the absence of the ventro-intemal spur, a charac- 

 teristic of the present genus. The specimens are given as 5 

 mm. in length. 



\Mien compared with H. ailtm and H. Kura, the present 

 sfiecies is found to be a smaller insect, agreeing in the robust 

 form and nearly quadrate dorsum of the pronotum. It is much 

 paler in general coloration, but the males before us have the 

 lateral lobes of the pronotum broadly banded with bh^ldsh 



