1 0 Psyche [March 
Megistops taurops n. sp. 
(Plate 1, figure 5) 
About 4 mm. in length, broadly oval, faintly shining, 
pale orange yellow above with deep brown to piceous head, 
undersurface and hind legs; anterior legs with basal half 
of femora dark; scutellum dark, elytra with a large dark 
median spot common to both elytra, a spot on the humerus 
and dark apex with the margin from apex to middle dark. 
Head dark, eyes (in female) well separated on the oc- 
ciput. Antennae with the first four joints pale, rest piceous, 
second joint fully as long as third, fourth twice as long. 
Prothorax approximately twice as wide as long at base, 
narrowed anteriorly and with thickened apical angles ; 
surface not very shiny, granular, pale orange yellow with 
traces of five spots. Scutellum dark. Elytra granular with 
the surface sculpture a little smoother than the prothorax 
and very finely and substriately punctate; pale orange yel- 
low with a piceous spot on the humerus and a large spot 
common to both elytra slightly below the middle, the apex 
broadly dark with the margin from the apex to the middle 
dark and widened into a lobe at the middle. Body beneath 
with the middle of the prothorax, breast and abdomen 
dark brown to piceous, hind legs also dark, anterior pairs 
of legs with the basal half of femora dark but rest paler, 
tarsi brown. Length 4 mm. ; width 2.5 mm. 
Type data. — Holotype female M.C.Z. Type No. 28,689. 
No locality label on the specimen but probably from South 
America. 
Remarks. — Although no locality label is on the single 
female specimen, it is safe to say that this was collected 
in South America and probably in Brazil or southward. 
The specimen, which is included in Jacoby’s second collec- 
tion, now in the Bowditch collection, bears a label “Burchell 
collection”. Burchell is known to have collected in South 
America. The markings on the humerus and apex re- 
semble those of M. vandepolli Duv., but the large size and 
striking large spot on the middle of the elytra make it 
quite different in appearance. Possibly it is a color form 
