4. Cryptognatha pam González and Hanley, new species

Description. Male holotype. Length 2.6 mm, width 2.4 mm; Dorsal surface shiny, elytron with faint trace of microsculpture. Color yellow; pronotum with 5 faint brown spots, 2 on disc, 3 along posterior margin, all spots small, round; elytron with single dark brown vitta extended from base across humeral angle to apex at suture on apical declivity (Fig. 21). Head without punctures; pronotal punctures small, separated by less than a diameter; elytral punctures larger than on pronotum, separated by less than a diameter to twice a diameter; prosternal punctures large, separated by less than a diameter; mesosternal punctures larger than on prosternum, separated by less than a diameter, metasternal punctures large, separated by 2 or 3 times a diameter medially, entirely absent in lateral 1/3; basal abdominal ventrite with coarse punctures separated by about a diameter medially, lateral 1/3 of ventrite and ventrites 2–4 lacking punctation, ventrite 5 with dense, fine punctation. Head with frons parallel-sided, medially depressed, twice as wide as eye, apex truncate medially, lateral 1/8 slightly retracted, angle acute (Fig. 22); eye canthus long, about 3/4 width of eye. Prosternum with lateral carina on each side extended from apex of intercoxal process nearly to slightly more than 1/3 length of prosternum. Epipleuron strongly descending externally. Postcoxal line on basal abdominal ventrite evenly curved, extended 3/4 distance to rear margin of ventrite. Genitalia long, penis guide nearly as long as paramere, parallel-sided with apical 1/8 narrowed to rounded apex; paramere slender, parallel-sided, apex rounded (Fig. 24); penis lost.

Female. Similar to male except head weakly depressed; median 1/3 of pronotum entirely light brown; genitalia with spermathecal capsule comparatively slender, tapered from wide ramus to acute apex of cornu.

Variation. None observed.

Type material. Holotype male: Venezuela, Aragua, Ocumare de la Costa, s.n.m, 25-VII-1974, En Aspidiotus sobre Cocofaro. (USNM) . Paratypes: 2, 1 same data as holotype except collector C. J. Rosales; 1, San Esteban, Ven. nr. Puerto Cabello, Dec. 1 to 20, 1939, P. J. Anduze. (USNM) .

Remarks. This species has an extremely distinctive dorsal color pattern unlike any other observed in Cryptognatha . The three specimens available for observation did not show color variation.