(COLEOPTERA)

Methia lata n. sp. Female.—Robust, elongate, dark brown throughout, each elytron with elongate brownish yellow patch back of scutellum and a diagonal stripe of same color extending from humeral angle toward suture on basal third; antennae and both surfaces densely pubescent. Head as wide as widest part of pronotum; eyes coarsely granulated, separated above by a little more than width of second segment of antennae; surface densely, coarsely punctured; a median depression on front; antennae extending over one segment beyond apices of elytra when laid over back, ratio of length of segments 1 to 11, 4:.5:7.5:7.2:5.2:5:4:3:2.6:2:2.2. Pronotum wider than long, widest in middle, wider at base than at apex, constricted at base and apex; sides broadly rounded; disk convex, with a small broad tubercle each side of middle in front of scutellum and a faint one each side in front of middle; surface in middle shining, sparsely, finely punctured; stridulatory plate of mesonotum polished, without median ridge. Scutellum coarsely punctured. Elytra near base widest part of insect, extending well beyond last ventral segment; sides subparallel in basal third, somewhat constricted about middle, then converging to obtusel