ART. 19 NEW BEETLES OP THE FAMILY CEEAMBYCIDAE FISHER 19 



ing from the humeral angle to the apex at sutural margin, the ab- 

 dominal segments not distinctly margined with yellow pubescence, 

 and the legs reddish brown. 



TOMOPTERUS SIMILIS. new species 



M(de. — Form similar to quadratipennis Bates. Above uniformly 

 black, antennae brownish black, with the base of the first joint 

 reddish, and each elytron with the lateral margin yqtj narrovviy 

 reddish brown and a short, oblique, smooth ivory white vitta, which 

 does not extend to base or apex of elytron ; beneath brownish black, 

 the legs reddish brown, with the base of the posterior femora ivory 

 white. 



Head with the front moderately long, broadly, deeply concave 

 between the antennae, and with a short, longitudinal carina on the 

 occiput; surface jQnely, densely punctate, densely clothed below the 

 eyes with long, recumbent silvery white joubescence, and with a row 

 of similar hairs between the eyes, which are nearly contiguous in 

 front. Antennae short, extending to base of pronotum and strongly 

 expanded toward apex; joint 1 long, arcuate, and strongly clavate; 

 joints 2 to 4 cylindrical, the third distinctly longer than the fourth ; 

 joint 5 subequal in length to the third, and strongly enlarged 

 toward the apex; joints 6 to 10 compact, short, subequal in length, 

 and strongly serrate; joint 11 slightly oblong, broadly truncate and 

 emarginate at apex. 



Pronotum distinctly wider than long, nearly equal in width at base 

 and apex; sides broadly, arcuately rounded, more strongly toward 

 the base ; disk moderately convex, vaguely flattened on top, and with 

 a deep narrow, transverse depression along anterior margin and 

 base; surface coarsely, confiuently ocellate-punctate, densely clothed 

 with very short, inconspicuous silvery white pubescence, which is only 

 visible in certain lights, with numerous long, erect black hairs inter- 

 mixed, and ornamented in the basal depression with long, recum- 

 bent golden yellow pubescence. Scutellum very large, elongate, tri- 

 angular, the surface coarsely, densely, and irregularly punctate. 



Elytra very short, not extending to base of abdomen, quadrangular, 

 not dehiscent posteriorly, the tips broadly rounded externally, more 

 or less obliquely toward the sutural margins; surface densely, con- 

 fluently punctate, the punctures very coarse in basal region, but be- 

 coming finer toward the apex, and sparsely clothed with fine, incon- 

 spicuous, erect hairs in basal region. 



Abdomen beneath finely, densely punctate, the posterior margin 

 of segments densely clothed with long, recumbent pubescence, which 

 is silvery v/hite on basal segments and golden yellow on apical seg- 

 ments. Sternum closely clothed with long, erect and recumbent 



