ABT. 22 NEW WEST INDIAN BEETLES FISHER 5 



Head finely, densely punctate, with a few Aery coarse, irregularly 

 placed punctures intermixed, the front slightly wider than long, 

 feebly convex, and nearly flat between the antennal tubercles. An- 

 tennae not quite as long as the entire body ; first joint robust, oblong, 

 truncate at apex, with a distinct cicatrix, and about equal in length 

 to the third joint ; fourth joint slightly longer than the third ; the 

 following Joints nearly subequal in length. 



Pronotum slightly wider than long, base and apex about equal in 

 width: sides feebly arcuately rounded, with a small obtuse tooth 

 at the middle ; surface nearly even, rather densely, very coarsely and 

 irregularl}'^ punctate. Scutellum triangular, and rounded behind. 



Elytra four times as long as pronotum, and distinctly wider than 

 it at base; humeral angles broadly rounded; sides nearly parallel 

 to apical fifth, then feebly arcuately attenuate to the tips, which 

 are conjointly broadly, but not deeply, arcuately emarginate, with 

 a short obtuse tooth at the lateral margins; surface regularly con- 

 vex, not longitudinally sulcate, but with rows of coarse, widely sep- 

 arated punctures. 



Prosternum feebly declivous in front, narrow between the an- 

 terior coxae, behind which it is strongly declivous, and broadly 

 triangularly expanded. Mesosternum vertical in front, triangular, 

 and elevated between the middle coxae. Metasternum with only a 

 feeble narrow longitudinal groove at the middle. 



Abdomen beneath sparsely, obsoletely, and irregularly punctate; 

 last segment broadly subtruncate or feebly emarginate at the tip, 

 with a broad concave depression at the apex, and the dorsal plate 

 feebly emarginate at middle, with a broadly rounded lobe on each 

 side. Anterior femora slightly more robust than the middle and 

 anterior pairs, and the posterior pair not quite extending to the 

 third abdominal segment. Tibiae narrow, straight, and subcylindi- 

 cal, the anterior pair with a feeble sinus. 



Male. — Differs from the female in having the last abdominal seg- 

 ment broadly subtruncate at apex, and without the concave depres- 

 sion, all of the femora more robust, tibiae broader and more flat- 

 tened, the anterior pair with a distinct sinus, the posterior ones 

 feebly arcuate, and the tarsi more broadly expanded. (Antennae 

 missing.) 



Length, 14 mm. ; width, 4 mm. 



Type locality. — Trinidad. 



Type and allotype.— Qvit. No. 28383, U.S.N.M. 



Described from two more or less broken specimens, male and 

 female, collected on the island of Trinidad during June, 1905, by 

 August Busck. 



This species can be separated from the other described West In- 

 dian species of this genus by the uniformly colored pubescence on 



