1939] 
Genus Abaris 
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Head very similar to that of Abaris aenea Dej.; large, 
smooth, neck evidently constricted, eyes large and convex, 
frontal fovese moderately deep, short, rather united by a 
vague frontal impression behind clypeal suture. 
Prothorax wide, sides gently rounded, lateral margin 
slightly explanate and moderately reflexed in basal half, 
median line very fine, interior basal fovese rather deep, the 
exterior ones more superficial, with a few large punctures, 
and rugosities, not extended to lateral margin; anterior 
margin a little less wide than the head with the eyes ; base 
distinctly wider than the anterior margin. 
Fig. 1. Abaris darling toni n. sp. 
Elytra oblongo-ovate, a little wider than the prothorax, 
one half longer than wide, with the greatest width before 
the middle; strise strongly impressed, the scutellary one 
vestigial ; third interstice a little less wide than the first and 
second together, with a single puncture behind the middle. 
Underside smooth, metapisterna long, ventral segments 
not sulcate. 
Claws of the tarsi finely pectinated ; onychium with some 
fine setae on the underside. 
The microsculpture, invisible on the prothorax, on the 
elytra is rather faint and transversal. 
Locality: Panama Canal Zone: Barro Colorado Island 
(Van Tyne and Darlington), 2 examples. Holotype in the 
