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body, with prevalence of cupreous or aeneous lustre and in the 

 much shorter hind tarsi; this is particularly noticeable in the more 

 typical forms, such as palliatns Fabr., where the tarsi become very 

 much stouter than usual, with joints 2-4 much abbreviated and 

 together but little longer than the first joint; although in smaller 

 forms, such as fatuus, the tarsi become slender, they are always 

 distinctly shorter than the tibiae. The prosternal process more 

 resembles that of Hemisopahis, being broader than in the preceding 

 genus, less horizontal and not margined. The upper surface, so 

 far as known to me, never becomes suffusedly punctulate as in 

 many species of Hemisopahis, or opaque in either sex as in Celia- 

 morphus. The species are rather numerous, those at present in 

 my collection being as follows: 



Larger species, never under 6 mm. in length 2 



Small species, with about 6 mm. as their superior limit of length; scutel- 



lar stria short and generally feeble .6 



2 Fovese of the three elytral series large and very conspicuous 3 



Foveae small, nearly as in the succeeding small species of the genus. ... 5 

 3 Body stout, very convex, oblong, shining, with strong greenish- 

 aeneous reflection throughout above, piceous-black and without 

 metallic lustre beneath, the legs short and stout, testaceous; head 

 rather large, more than three-fifths as wide as the prothorax, with 

 well developed prominent eyes and distinct deep sublinear foveae; 

 antennae slender, obscure testaceous, gradually paler basally, the 

 palpi testaceous; prothorax large, subparallel, only about two-fifths 

 wider than long, rounded at the sides, which become straight and 

 barely converging behind the middle, the apex feebly sinuate and 

 much narrower than the base, the latter broadly and distinctly 

 sinuate medially, with the angles scarcely more than right and nar- 

 rowly blunt at their tips; surface evenly convex, very finely, evenly 

 reflexed at the sides, impunctate, the foveae broadly sublinear but 

 extremely feeble, the stria fine but subentire; elytra oblong, not 

 quite one-half longer than wide, the apices strongly oblique but not 

 sinuate, the tips acute, equal in width to the prothorax; striae very 

 fine, the scutellar fine, moderately long, the intervals flat, the surface 

 near the posterior part of the sides and the apex with suffused punc- 

 tures, bearing very short hairs; abdomen minutely, sparsely punctu- 

 late and with very short hairs. Length ( 9 ) 8.8 mm. ; width 3.5 mm. 



Cuba (Havana) *pyritosus Dej. 



Body narrower, smaller and less convex, with shorter prothorax 4 



4 Form oblong, somewhat strongly convex, black, with strong aeneous- 

 bronzy lustre above, the side edges of the pronotum pallescent; 

 under surface piceo-rufous, the legs testaceous; head smaller, rather 

 short, three-fifths as wide as the prothorax, with prominent eyes and 

 with smaller and more punctiform foveae, the antennae slightly 



T. L. Casey, Mem. Col. V, Oct. 1914- 



