1964] 
Reichardt — N eotropical Carabidae 
5i 
Galeritula pilosa, n. sp. 
(Figs. 4-7) 
Description: dark brown, almost black, with lighter brown legs, 
antennae and mouthparts. Winged species. 
Head slightly wider than long, with large prominent eyes; slightly 
rugose, with broad, poorly developed median carina; posterior half and 
sides of anterior half with long yellowish, almost erect hairs; two 
orbital setae. Pronotum longer than wide (length to width ratio: 
1.2); as wide as head; anterior margin concave, posterior margin 
slightly emarginate; widest in the middle; more narrowed anteriorly; 
sides divergent after the constriction; surface convex, rugose; median 
sulcus almost erased ; covered with long yellowish, backwards directed 
hairs; two pronotal setae. Scutellum triangular, punctured, with 
yellow hairs. Elytra twice as wide as pronotum, almost twice as long 
as wide (length to width ratio: 1.8) ; widest behind the middle; apex 
truncate ; with nine carinae and two less developed carinulae between 
each two carinae; a row of deep punctures filling out the carinulae 
interspace; a row of long yellow hairs (more or less as long as inter- 
space between two carinae) between each carina and carinula; inter- 
spaces transversely rugose; scutellar carina usually not joining the first 
carina (in the holotype the right one joins it). Legs (the holotype 
has the right middle femur bifurcated at apex) , antennae, mouthparts 
and ventral side, very densely hairy. 
Measurements: length 12.61-1 4.56 mm.; width 4.16-4.81 mm. 
(Holotype: 13 mm. X 4.16mm.). 
Types: Salobra, Mato Grosso, X. 1938, Exp. Instituto Oswaldo 
Cruz col. (Holotype c? and 4d\ 69 , Paratypes; i 9 , Paratype, same 
locality, 1. 195 5, no collector; all in the Departamento de Zoologia, Sao 
Paulo; 1 c? and 1$, Paratypes, same data as Holotype, in the Museum 
of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Mass. 
Notes: this species of Galeritula is well defined by its rather small 
size, and by the long yellowish hairs which cover it. Very similar to 
G. palustris (Liebke), of which 2 <$ and 39 were collected together 
with pilosa , n. sp. ; distinguished by its darker brown legs; by the dif- 
ferent pronotal form ; by the carinae, which are thicker than in palus- 
tris, and by the pilosity, which is much denser and longer in pilosa, 
n. sp. 
Explanation of Plate 7 
Otoglossa tuberculosa Chaudoir: fig. 1, dorsal view; fig. 2, genitalia of $ 
from Nova Teutonia, lateral view; fig. 3, same genitalia, dorsal view; 
Galeritula tilosa, n. sp. : fig. 4, Holotype; fig. 5, lateral view of genitalia of 
Holotype; fig. 6, same genitalia, dorsal view; fig. 7, detail of elytral structure. 
