ABT. 22 NEW WEST INDIAN BEETLES — FISHER 29 



densely, obsoletely i^unctate, moderately clothed with recumbent 

 whitish pubescence, and with a very distinct longitudinal groove 

 extending from the epistoma to occiput; eyes large, rather coarsely 

 granulate, deeply emarginate, and separated from each other on 

 the top by a little less than the width of the emargination of the 

 eyes in front, the lower lobes slightly wider than long and strongly 

 convex, the upper lobes small and feebly convex. Antennae two 

 and one-half times as long as the body, dull brown, with the median 

 joints paler basally. 



Pronotum two-thirds wider than long, and slightly narrower at 

 base than apex; sides feebly obliquely expanded to the lateral tooth 

 at basal fourth, behind which they are strongly obliquely con- 

 stricted to near the base, where they are parallel, the tooth acute 

 at apex and extending feebly obliquely outward; surface dull, not 

 tumid, broadly, but not deeply transversely depressed along base, 

 coarsely, sparsely, and very irregularly punctate, and rather densely 

 clothed with recumbent brownish and whitipb pubescence, forming 

 on the disk two more or less obsolete brown areas, divided by a 

 longitudinal median vitta of whitish pubescence. Scutellum as 

 wide as long, and broadly rounded behind. 



Elytra two times as long as wide, distinctly wider than pronotum, 

 with widely exposed and rounded humeri, rather strongly cuneiform, 

 the sides feebly rounding apically to the tips, which are strongly 

 arcuately emarginate internally, with a small tooth at the suture, 

 and a larger and more acute tooth at the exterior angle; surface 

 feebly transversely depressed at basal third, without discal lines, 

 and the lateral carina feebly elevated but not acute, coarsely and 

 irregularly punctate, the punctures rather dense basally, becoming 

 obsolete toward the apex, but denser and more regularly placed on 

 the sides, and rather densely clothed with recumbent brownish and 

 whitish pubescence, the brown areas small and rounded on the 

 median parts, much larger and more irregular in shape on the 

 apical half, and with a rather distinct spot on disk near base. 



Beneath finely, densely punctate, and rather densely clothed with 

 short, fine, recumbent, cinereous pubescence ; last abdominal segment 

 not much wider than the fourth and broadly subtruncate at apex; 

 anterior and middle coxae separated by about one-fourth their 

 diameter; femora moderately clavate toward apex; basal joint of 

 posterior tarsi about as long as the following joints united. 



Length, 5 mm.; width, 1.9 mm. 



Tij'pe locality. — Montserrat, Trinidad. 



Type.— C^it. No. 28402, U.S.N.M. 



Described from a unique male collected at the type locality June 

 27, by August Busck. 



