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Type locality. — Barbados, British West Indies. 



Other localities.— Grenada, B. W. I.: St. Augustine; Trinidad (P. 

 J. Darlington, April 1929); British Guiana: Botanic Garden, 

 Georgetown (Harold Morrison, May 1-26, 1918); Dutch Guiana: 

 Eust en Werk, Surinam (eating young leaves of bananas; D. C. 

 Geijskes, January 30, 1931). 



Bemarks. — The aedeagus of this species bears a close resemblance 

 to those of 31. femoralis Jacoby and M. coenus but has the broadest 

 tip of any of them. All three species are very similar in outward 

 appearance, but this one is usually less densely punctate on the 

 prothorax. Originally described from Barbados, it has been col- 

 lected on both Grenada and Trinidad as well as on the mainland, 

 in the Guianas. 



MYOCHROUS LATISETIGER, new species 



Plate 3, Figure 2 



From 5 to 6 mm. in length, oblong, piceous with a bronzy luster 

 beneath the dense, curved, dark brown and white scales, the scales 

 unusually broad and not flatly appressed; head, thorax, and elytra 

 coarsely and densely punctate; prothorax broad, smoothly convex, 

 and with three well-developed teeth. 



Head coarsely, rugosely, and densely punctate beneath the scales, 

 with a faint median line, the ridge on either side of occiput present. 

 Antennae reddish brown, of the usual proportions. Prothorax 

 broader than long, with three strong lateral teeth and one at apical 

 and basal angles ; a depressed line across base, disk moderately convex ; 

 punctation dense, deep, round, and becoming rugose toward base. 

 Elytra with a small humeral prominence and short intrahumeral 

 sulcus, and below this a transverse depression on the sides; striate 

 punctation unusually coarse and contiguous, transversely ridged in 

 basal half ; scales on entire upper surface wider than in most species 

 and not appressed but curved. Body beneath shining beneath the 

 much finer pale pubescence; first abdominal segment coarsely 

 punctate. Hind femora with an indistinct tooth, anterior tibiae with 

 the usual inner tooth. Length 5.2 to 6.2 mm. ; width 2.5 to 2.8 mm. 



Type and paratype. — Type male and one paratype, U.S.N.M. No. 

 59028, collected by F. L. Gallege in 1941, injuring the fruit of Bixa 

 orellana Linnaeus. 



Type locality. — Atlantico, Colombia. 



Other localities. — Aracataca, Magdalena Province, Colombia (P. J. 

 Darlington, 1929). 



Remarks. — This is another species of the femoralis group in which 

 the aedeagus, although with a similarly shaped tip, is shorter. Like 

 the rest of the group, it is a coarsely punctate beetle but differs from 

 them in having wider scales that are mostly dark brown with some 

 paler ones intermingling. 



