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This genus belongs to the tribe Acanthocinini, but does not seem 

 to be very closely allied to any of the included genera. It differs 

 from all the other American genera of this tribe in having the 

 antennae distinctly shorter than the body, pa-othorax regularly con- 

 vex and without any indications of tubercles on the disk or at the 

 sides, and the surface clothed Avith short, narrow, scalelike hairs. 



I take great pleasure in naming this genus and the type species 

 after my friend, Eugene Amandus Schwarz, Bureau of Entomology, 

 and Custodian of Coleoptera in the United States National Museum, 

 through whose carefid and energetic collecting our knowledge of 

 the fauna of Cuba has been very greatly increased. 



EUGAMANDUS SCHWARZI, new species 



Form short, broadly elongate, and subparallel; above uniformly 

 dark reddish-brown, and densely clothed and varigated with brown- 

 ish and yellowish-white scalelike hairs; beneath similar to above, 

 but not quite so densely pubescent. 



Head slightly wider than long, and feebly convex in front, flat 

 between the antennal tubercles, which are very widely separated and 

 feebly elevated, the surface very coarsely and rather densely punc- 

 tate, densely clothed with recumbent yellowish-white pubescence, 

 and variegated with numerous small spots of brown pubescence; 

 eyes moderately convex, and separated from each other on the top 

 by about two times the width of the emargination of the eyes in 

 front. Antennae three-fourths as long as the body, and strongly 

 variegated with short brownish and yellowish-white pubescence. 



Pronotum one-third wider than long, the base and apex equal in 

 width; widest at middle, and the sides regularly arcuately rounded; 

 surface coarsely, densely punctate, with a scalelike hair in the mid- 

 dle of each puncture, and densely clothed with recumbent scale- 

 like yellowish-white pubescence, and with similar brown pubescence 

 forming small round spots along anterior margin, and four more 

 or less distinct longitudinal vittae extending from the base to apical 

 third, of which the two exterior ones are the broadest. Scutellum 

 somewhat triangular, broader than long, and broadly rounded be- 

 hind. 



Elytra five-sevenths longer than wide, and distinctly wider than 

 pronotum; humeri feebly developed; sides nearly parallel to apical 

 third, then arcuately attenuate to the tips, which are strongly ob- 

 liquely truncate internally, with the exterior angle obtuse; surface 

 with a broad depression along suture at basal third, strongly ob- 

 liquely declivous from the apical third to apex, narrowly depressed 

 along suture near apex, each elytron with a longitudinal elevation 

 at base, two round obtuse gibbosities placed transversely at the 

 apical declivity, and with numerous, more or less distinct, round 

 elevations over the surface, densely, coarsely punctate, and densely 



