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Santa Clara (=Las Villas) Province, September 21, 1932, B.B. 

 Leavitt, MCZ, two; Santiago de las Vegas, October 23, 1930, USNM, 

 three; July 1951, F. de Zayas, RBS, one; Soledad, Cienfuegos, October 

 22-26 and November 8, 1926, P. J. Darlington, MCZ, six. 



Remarks: See remarks for T. quadrimaculata. 



Habits: Adults have been reported by Gundlach (1891) from 

 Duranta plumieri (Verbenaceae) , which is one of the food plants 

 recorded for T. quadrimaculata. 



Tetraonyx maestro, new species 



Figure 3 



Diagnosis: Similar to T. quadrimaculata except as follows: Apical 

 spot of each elytron exceeding middle of elytron (but still well sepa- 

 rated from basal spot) , attaining sutural margin throughout, truncate 

 anteriorly. Pronotum and elytra, on the average, more elongate 

 (table 3). Average size of beetles larger (table 2); total length 

 12.5-14 mm. 



Geographic distribution: Oriente Province, Cuba. 



Type material : Holotype female from Pico Turquino, south side, 

 3,000-5,000 ft., June 1936, P. J. Darlington, in MCZ. Paratype 

 female from Loma del Gato, Oriente Province, July 1953, F. de Zayas 

 and Alayo. 



Remarks: See remarks for T. quadrimaculata. 



Habits: Unknown. 



Tribe Horiini 



Genus Cissites LatreUIe 



This genus, with two species, is the Neotropical representative of the 

 tribe Horiini, which in the Oriental and Ethiopean regions includes 

 the genera Horia and Synhoria. In the larval stage the species of 

 Horiini are nest parasites of carpenter bees (Xylocopa) . 



The presence of Cissites maculata (Swederus) in the West Indian 

 fauna is well estabhshed, and this species is treated below. On the 

 other hand, the reported occurrence of C. auriculata (Champion) in 

 the West Indies is questionable. According to Champion (1891-1893), 

 Guilding's record (1827) of a variety of C. maculata from Barbados 

 having the "porca in duos processus auriformes irregulares expanditur" 

 is probably referable to C. auriculata. This opinion was subsequently 

 accepted by Leng and Mutchler (1917) in their list. However, the 

 possibility that Guilding actually was dealing with a variant of C. 

 maculata cannot be so easily discounted, nor can the possibility that 

 a third species is involved he entirely dismissed. It therefore seems 

 preferable to reserve assignment of Guilding's Barbados record 

 pending further information (see footnote 2, p. 213). 



