1973] 
Barr — Speocolpodes 
273 
Antenna very long and slender, attaining apical fourth of elytra; 
pubescence beginning near base of fourth segment. Tarsi with first 
four segments densely setose beneath, last segment glabrous beneath, 
claws smooth ; fourth segment bilobate, conspicuously so on pro- and 
mesotarsi, inner lobe longer than outer, fourth metatarsal segment 
feebly bilobate; two or three basal segments of meso- and metatarsi 
with feeble lateral ridge. 
Male unknown. 
Type species: Speocolpodes franiai, new species. 
Speocolpodes franiai, new species 
Etymology : Patronymic honoring Mr. Henry Frania, codiscoverer 
of the species. 
Diagnosis: The genus is at present monobasic; the single species 
is distinguished from all other known species of North American 
Anchomeninae by the combination of bilobed fourth tarsal segments, 
vestigial eyes, rufotestaceous color, and slender, elongate body form. 
Description : Length 9.5-10.2 mm. Rufotestaceous, shining, pol- 
ished ; integuments generally glabrous except for fixed setae ; micro- 
sculpture obsolescent on dorsum of head, evanescently transverse on 
pronotal disc, finely and densely transverse on elytral disc. Body 
form slender and elongate, appendages all slender and elongate. 
Head 2.1 times longer than wide (excluding mandibles), sides 
subparallel, feebly convergent at neck; eye vestigial, represented only 
by minute rudiment seen as translucent spot through cuticle, about 
0.09 X 0.15 mm. in holotype; labrum 0.4 as long as wide, anterior 
margin evenly convex; clypeofrontal grooves short, divergent behind 
level of antennal bases, joining feebly impressed postantennal groove 
at anterior supraorbital puncture and ending in lunate depression 
between anterior and posterior supraorbitals ; mandibles elongate, 
slender, falciform, left mandible 1.40 mm. long in holotype; maxil- 
lary palps with terminal segment fusiform, about 0.85 as long as 
penultimate segment, total length of palp (holotype) 1.77 mm., 
segments in ratio of 1.0 : 4.0 : 3.6 : 3.0; labial palps with two setae 
on basal half of penultimate segment (distal seta possibly irregular: 
short or broken on two of four palps examined, absent on other two 
palps), total length of palp (holotype) 1.23 mm., segments in ratio 
of 1:4:3; mentum tooth prominent, grooved, truncate at apex; 
submentum with two prebasilar setae each side behind suture. 
Pronotum 1.25 times longer than wide, apex width 0.8 times base 
width and 0.67 times maximum width, which occurs near middle; 
