﻿NEW 
  EUCNEMIDID 
  BEETLES 
  FISHER 
  93 
  

  

  clothed 
  with 
  short, 
  recumbent, 
  yollowisli 
  hairs, 
  which 
  arc 
  finer 
  on 
  

   underside 
  of 
  body. 
  

  

  Head 
  rather 
  strongly 
  convex, 
  vaguely 
  depressed 
  near 
  clypcus, 
  

   coarsely, 
  densely 
  ocellate-punctate; 
  intcrocular 
  carina 
  scarcely 
  ele- 
  

   vated, 
  not 
  extending 
  along 
  inner 
  margin 
  of 
  antennal 
  depression; 
  

   clypeus 
  slightly 
  narrower 
  at 
  basa 
  than 
  distance 
  to 
  eye, 
  strongly 
  sinuate 
  

   at 
  apex. 
  Antenna 
  robust, 
  slightly 
  expanded 
  toward 
  apex, 
  extending 
  

   to 
  base 
  of 
  elytra; 
  segment 
  '2 
  slightly 
  longer 
  than 
  4; 
  segment 
  3 
  longer 
  

   than 
  6 
  and 
  subequal 
  in 
  length 
  to 
  4 
  and 
  5 
  united 
  ; 
  segments 
  7 
  to 
  9 
  slightly 
  

   longer 
  than 
  wide 
  : 
  segment 
  11 
  oblong, 
  acute 
  at 
  apex. 
  

  

  Pronotum 
  slightly 
  wider 
  than 
  long, 
  widest 
  near 
  middle; 
  sides 
  

   vaguely 
  narrowed 
  posteriorly, 
  arcuately 
  narrow^ed 
  anteriorly; 
  pos- 
  

   terior 
  angles 
  acute, 
  not 
  carinate 
  or 
  divergent; 
  disk 
  convex, 
  with 
  a 
  

   vague, 
  round 
  dei/i-ession 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  in 
  front 
  of 
  middle, 
  sometimes 
  

   without 
  depressions, 
  rarely 
  with 
  a 
  longitudinal 
  median, 
  smooth 
  space; 
  

   surface 
  densely, 
  finely 
  punctate 
  on 
  median 
  part, 
  finely 
  rugose 
  toward 
  

   sides. 
  

  

  Elytra 
  moderately 
  convex; 
  sides 
  nearly 
  parallel 
  along 
  basal 
  half, 
  

   strongly 
  attenuate 
  po^ttn-iorly 
  to 
  the 
  tips, 
  which 
  are 
  rather 
  broadly, 
  

   conjointly 
  rounded; 
  surface 
  vaguely 
  striate, 
  the 
  sutural 
  stria 
  more 
  

   distinct, 
  intervals 
  flat, 
  densely, 
  finely 
  punctate 
  basally, 
  the 
  punctures 
  

   becoming 
  sparser 
  toward 
  apices. 
  

  

  Body 
  beneath 
  finely, 
  densely 
  punctate, 
  the 
  punctures 
  coarser 
  on 
  pro- 
  

   sternum 
  ; 
  antennal 
  groove 
  broad, 
  shallow 
  posteriorly, 
  deeper 
  anteriorly, 
  

   not 
  limited 
  internally 
  by 
  a 
  carina, 
  but 
  sometimes 
  with 
  a 
  short 
  carina 
  

   at 
  outer 
  margin 
  near 
  eye. 
  

  

  Length 
  3.5-G 
  mm., 
  width 
  0.8-1.75 
  mm. 
  

  

  Type 
  locdJity. 
  — 
  Cayamas, 
  Cuba. 
  

  

  Type 
  and 
  paratypca. 
  — 
  U.8.N.M. 
  No. 
  57175. 
  

  

  Remcn'ks. 
  — 
  Described 
  from 
  seven 
  specimens 
  (1 
  type) 
  collected 
  at 
  the 
  

   type 
  locality 
  during 
  PVbruary 
  and 
  March, 
  by 
  E. 
  A. 
  Schwarz. 
  

  

  This 
  species 
  is 
  allied 
  to 
  Nnnatodes 
  alropon 
  (Say) 
  but 
  dilFcrs 
  from 
  

   that 
  s|)ecies 
  in 
  being 
  smaller 
  and 
  in 
  having 
  the 
  pronotum 
  widci- 
  Ihan 
  

   lung, 
  with 
  the 
  surface 
  densely, 
  finely 
  punclate 
  at 
  the 
  middle, 
  but 
  witli- 
  

   out 
  a 
  longitudinal, 
  median 
  depressed 
  line, 
  and 
  flic 
  elylia 
  vaguely 
  

   striate. 
  

  

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