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{^Andira inermis). In the United States National Museum collec- 

 tion is a specimen from Habana, Cuba, collected by C. F. Baker, 

 another example from Central Constancia, Cuba, collected by J. F. 

 Merrill, and two examples collected at Cayuga, Guatemala, during 

 September and October by William Schaus. Another example has 

 been examined from the Ferd. Nevermann collection which was 

 collected at San Jose, Costa Rica, June 20, 1924, by E. Gonzora, 

 Bates ^ records it from Cuba and Santa Marta, New Granada, but 

 states that the specimen from the latter locality differs from the 

 Cuban form in having the hind legs wholly tawny red, with the 

 exception of the two apical joints of the tarsi, which are black. This 

 specimen is without any doubt the same as my new species, 

 Bromiades Tneridionalis from Panama, so hrachyptera should not 

 be listed in the catalogues from New Granada. 



BROMIADES MERIDIONALIS, new species 



Female. — Form similar to hrachyptera Chevrolat. Head, anten- 

 nae, pronotum, scutellum, and elytra black, the latter each with a 

 broad, median longitudinal pale yellow vitreous area extending from 

 base to near apex. Body beneath black; anterior and middle legs 

 black, with a more or less reddish yellow spot near the base of the 

 femora; posterior legs yellow, except the femora, which have the 

 swollen parts slightly more brownish and the tips narrowly mar- 

 gined with black, the three apical joints of the tarsi and the tarsal 

 claws black. 



Head with the front moderately long, flat between the eyes, and 

 with a smooth longitudinal carina extending from occiput to middle 

 of front, the carina broadly expanded on the occiput; surface 

 coarsely, irregularly punctate, and irregularly clothed with short, 

 recumbent golden yellow hairs. Eyes separated from each other on 

 the front by nearly the width of the labrum. Antennae extending 

 nearly to apex of elytra; joints 1 to 4 shining and sparsely punctate; 

 joints 5 to 11 opaque and densely pubescent, and all of the joints 

 armed with a few long hairs at apex on inner margin; joint 1 

 strongly clavate; joints 2 to 4 subcjdindrical ; joint 5 robust and 

 feebly serrate; joints 6 to 10 broadly triangular; joint 11 oblong, and 

 feebly emarginate at apex. 



Pronotum about as wide as long; sides arcuately rounded, and 

 strongly constricted near base; surface somewhat depressed, with 

 three broad, smooth, longitudinal elevations, the median one straight 

 and strongly interrupted near base, the lateral ones arcuate, not 

 extending to base or apex, and the surface coarsely rugose poste- 

 riorly, the depressions coarsely, irregularly punctate, and densely 



»Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. 11. 1873, p. 120. 



