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file) and narrower furcation of the frontal costa. The L(enus 

 JMcrotclti.w with which it also might possibly be con- 

 founded, has the eyes larger, the vertex narrower, and the 

 humeral angles of the pronotum reduced in size. 



MICRONOTUS QUADRIUN'DULATUS, REDT. 



Body small, granulo-scabrous. Antennnj slender, extremely 

 filamentous, consisting of twelve articles, from the fifth to the 

 ninth strongly elongate, the last three articles shorter, a little 

 coiipressed; eyes small. Vertex in dorsal view wider than one 

 of the eyes, in the middle carinate, on either side between the 

 eyes somewhat fossulate; the median carina of vertex project- 

 ing very little from the convexo-truncate front border; the 

 anterior carin;t of verte.x a little convexo-elevated laterally. 

 Frontal costa in profile a little advanced beyond the eyes, in 

 the female equal to about one-fourth the diameter of one of 

 the eyes, in the male less, scarcely sinuate between the eyes, 

 moderately convexo-protuberant between the antennas viewed 

 in front the rami distinctly separated and slightly diverging. 

 Pronotum anteriorly truncate, posteriorly cuneate, apical pro- 

 cess nearly or about reaching the apex of posterior femora, 

 the sides substraight; dorsum between the shoulders moder- 

 ately broad; median carina of pronotum subcompressed 

 anteriorly before the shoulders, in profile more or less quadri- 

 midulate in the female, humeral angles obtuse, distinctly cari- 

 nate, posterior lateral carin;E distinct. Elytra oval or scarcely 

 elyptical; wings somewhat rudimentary, abbreviated in the 

 female, still shorter in the male. Margins of anterior femora 

 entire; inferior margin of second femora distinctly undulate in 

 the female, or compresso-ampliate in the male; posterior 

 femora stout; first article of jjosterior tarsi longer than the 

 two following articles united, the first and second pulvilli 

 acute, together about as long as the third. 



Length body, ,1 4-5 mm.; pronot. 4-5 mm.; post. fem. 

 3.6 mm.; 5, 6.4 mm; pronot. 6 mm.; post fem., 4 mm. 



Locality, Haiti (Crew); St. Vincent; Grenada. 



Described from specimens in the author's collection. 



