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punctured throughout, the intervals moderately convex. 3fctasfernum well de- 

 veloped, punctured and pubescent near the middle coxae, but elsewhere com- 

 pletely impunctate and glabrous, the epipleurse very fine, linear and deeply 

 concave. Middle tibite with very short, stiff, external pubescence and a single 

 rather distinct spine, the hind tibiae spineless. Length 19.0 mm.; width 6.4 

 mm.; length of the prothorax 4.2, width 5.7; length of the elytra 11.5 mm. 

 Guerrero. 



Differs from haagi and recticornis in its impunctate scutellum^ 

 and from wagneri in its straight and not arcuate frontal ridges ; 

 tropicus, ellipticus, championi and yucatanus are much larger 

 species and intergeneus of Bates, which is doubtfully referred to 

 the genus, has the metasternum somewhat punctate at each side 

 of the apex. The type of the description is probably the female, 

 the male being nearly similar but with the prothorax a little more 

 transverse and about as wide as the elytra. P'our specimens. 



Verres vernicatus. — Parallel, moderately convex, polished and gla- 

 brous throughout above except some sparse short hairs distributed over the 

 vertical wall of the elytral base; pro- and mesosterna opaque and minutely 

 granulato-reticulate, except toward the lateral edges where the former is con- 

 spicuously pubescent as usual, the latter strongly and coarsely punctured at 

 the sides of the peduncle. Head nearly *5 as wide as the prothorax, the pos- 

 terior ambient impression deep, its posterior margin behind well defined and 

 broadly cuspid, broad and shallow anteriorly; central process transverse, form- 

 ing an anteriorly acute middle lobe and two obtusely rounded lateral lobes, 

 not separated by longitudinal impressions, the frontal ridges diverging ex- 

 tremely widely from a short distance before the base of the process, gradually 

 and arcuately becoming transverse and joining the supra-orbital elevation ; they 

 are subacute, though feeble, and are feebly tuberculate at lateral third of the 

 entire width of the head; clypeus thence moderately declivous, smooth and 

 almost plane to the apex, which is subrecti linear, with a small median sinus 

 and limited at each side of the labrum by a moderately prominent angular 

 projection; from this projection proceeds a pronounced short longitudinal ele- 

 vation to the frontal ridge; supra-antennal elevation large imd angularly 

 prominent anteriorly ; labrum rather deeply sinuate in the middle at apex, the 

 surface adjoining the sinus deeply impressed and concave for a short distance. 

 Prothorax fully }4 wider than long, the apex slightly advanced in median % 

 and subrecti linearly truncate, thence obliquely subsinuate to the rounded 

 apical angles; marginal groove punctate, inflexed at apex less than half way 

 to the middle, becoming deeper though only slightly wider, with acutely 

 limited margins and strongly and transversely rugose bottom; post-median de- 

 pression rather small, smooth; disk impunctate throughout though with min- 

 ute scattered punctules, the median groove coarse and deep. Scutellum deeply 

 and closely punctured, with a smooth median line. Elytra but little more 

 than % longer than wide, not quite 2)^ times as long as the prothorax, just 

 visibly wider behind the middle, the strife moderately impressed and finely 



