198 ENBRIK STRAND, 
Elaphroptera desponsa n. Sp. 
9. Mandibles falcate, long, pointed at the apex, smooth, with 
a narrow groove close to the inner margin, the outer margin with 
a short sparse fringe of pale fulvous hairs. Clypeus very broadly 
and shallowly emarginate; the head rather sparsely punctured, more 
than half as broad again as long, strongly rounded at the posterior 
angles, with a deep, longitudinal, frontal sulcus. Pronotum very 
sparsely punctured, flattened, half as long again as the greatest 
breadth, half as broad again posteriorly as anteriorly; the anterior 
margin sliehtly raised, with a narrow depression in the middle. 
Scutellum very small, rounded posteriorly and sparsely punctured; 
median segment sparsely punctured, one third shorter than the pro- 
notum, broadened from the base to the apex, obliquely truncate 
posteriorly and almost smooth. Abdomen much broader than the 
thorax; the first segment sparsely punctured, the posterior margin 
raised with a deep groove before it, narrowed anteriorly and trun- 
cate, the surface of the truncation clothed with rather short golden 
pubescence; second segment much broader than the first, almost 
smooth at the base, the apical margin raised with a broad groove 
before it, the intermediate and larger portion of the segment rugose 
between two transverse carinae; the three following segments 
shining, smooth at the base, sparsely punctured in the middle and 
near the apex. Pyeidium sharply deflexed, almost vertical, ovate, 
rather broader at the apex than at the base; the dorsal plate finely 
rugulose, truncate at the apex, the ventral plate extending some 
distance beyond the dorsal. Ventral segments coarsely punctured, 
the fifth more closely than the others. T'he pleurae are shining, the 
propleurae very finely aciculate. 
Black; the mandibles, antennae, except the base of the scape, 
the second and sixth dorsal segments of the abdomen and all 
the ventral segments fusco-ferruginous; the legs dark testaceous. 
Length 11 mm. 
Hab. Bogota (Lixvie). 
This may prove to be the female of E. bogotana; it is however 
much nearer to true Elaphroptera than to the species of the late- 
ralıs group. 
