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with recumbent yellowish-brown pubescence, which is darker brown 

 on apical region, and obsoletely ornamented with yellowish-white 

 pubescence as follows: A broad fascia extending from humeri 

 obliquely backward to suture at middle, a narrow transverse irreg- 

 ular fascia at apical third, and the lateral margins from humeral 

 angles to apex : with a small fascicle of erect, black hairs on each 

 elytron near base, and with rows of long, erect, moderately stiff hairs. 



Beneath densely, obsoletely punctate, sparsely clothed with incon- 

 spicuous recumbent pubescence, and the legs and sides of abdomen 

 rather densely clothed with long, flying hairs; last abdominal seg- 

 ment very broadly rounded at apex; middle and posterior femora 

 more strongly arcuately expanded than the anterior pair, and dis- 

 tinctly flattened on their ventral and dorsal surface. 



Length, 4 mm. ; width, 1.7 mm. 



Type locality. — Cayamas, Cuba. 



Type.— Q^ii. No. 28404, U.S.N.M. 



Described from a unique mak collected at the type locality 

 March 9, by E, A. Schwarz. 



EUGAMANDUS, new genus 



Mandibles large and moderately robust at base. Head narrower 

 than pronotum, flat or only feebly concave between the antennal 

 tubercles, the front wader than long, and the cheeks short. Antennae 

 shorter than body, and not ciliate beneath; first joint very short, 

 moderately robust, oblong-oval, without a cicatrix, and subequal in 

 length to the fourth joint, which is shorter than the third, the fol- 

 lowing joints shorter and nearly equal in length. Eyes small, 

 coarsely granulated, deeply emarginate, the lower lobes as wide as 

 long, and more or less rounded. 



Pronotum wider than long, even, regularly convex, and without 

 tubercles on sides or disk. El37tra rather short and broad, some- 

 w^hat uneven, feebly depressed on disk, with or without distinct gib- 

 bosities, and strongly declivous posteriorly. Legs rather short, the 

 posterior ones slightly longer than the anterior pair; femora feebly 

 clavate; intermediate tibiae with a distinct groove; tarsi short, the 

 first joint of the posterior pair about equal in length to the following 

 two joints united, and the tarsal claws divaricate. Mesosternum 

 narrow between the coxae, subtruncate posteriorly, and declivous in 

 front. Prosternal process narrow, arcuately declivous in front and 

 behind, and triangularly expanded behind the coxae, which are 

 globose. Anterior and middle coxal cavities closed. Body and legs 

 clothed with scalelike hairs, and without long, erect hairs intermixed. 



Genotype. — Eugamandus schwar^J, new species. 



