290 NEOTROPICAL PSELAPHIDAE 



The integument is shining where it is not densely pubescent ; the pubescence 

 complex. Thus the tempora, sides of head and the area anterior of the eyes 

 have squamous setae; antennal segments densely pubescent, obscuring the 

 articulation; distal segment of maxillary palpi has the apical half covered with 

 short, spike-like setae; pronotal foveae have spongy pubescence; basal elytral 

 fovea and apical area densely pubescent; general body pubescence dense and 

 in the form of subappressed to appressed, thick-shafted setae. 



To the author, this genus presents one of the most perplexing taxonomic 

 problems in the neotropics, and it is possible that Ephimia will have to be 

 taken from the Hybocephalini entirely, in which case the tribe will not be a 

 neotropically represented group. The reader is requested to study the remarks 

 made under the genus Juxtahamotopsis of the Tyrini for further discussion. 



Key to the Species 



Known only from the Antilles; length less than two millimeters. ... 2 



Known only from Pearl Islands ; length two millimeters 



crassicornis 



2. Antennal segments III to VIII strongly transverse, only slightly 



lenticular; known only from the Windward Islands 3 



Antennal segments III to VIII strongly, transversely lenticular; known 

 only from the Virgin Islands simoni 



3. Antennal segments IX and X of equal length; 1.6 mm 



subnitida Male 



Antennal segment X nearly twice as long as IX. .subnitida Female 



crassicornis Sharp. 1887. San Miguel, Isla del Rey, Pearl Islands. 

 simoni Reitter. 1882-1883. St. Thomas, Virgin Islands. Genotype. 

 subnitida Raffray. 1904. Grenada, Windward Islands. 



