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clothed with yellowish-white pubescence, with a large, brownish 

 area at middle along lateral margin, a narrow elongate brownish- 

 black spot on suture near apex, and with numerous irregularly 

 placed, brownish spots in basal region and along lateral margins. 



Beneath coarsely, but not very densely punctate, moderately 

 clothed with recumbent yellowish-white pubescence, sides of abdo- 

 men brown, and the abdomen and legs variegated with numerous 

 small, round, brown spots ; last abdominal segment broadly truncate 

 at apex; anterior and middle femora more strongly clavate than 

 posterior pair ; mesosternum with a small tubercle between the coxae, 

 causing it to be more truncate anteriorly than in cayamae Fisher. 



Length, 6 mm. ; width, 2.75 mm. 



Type locality. — Cayamas, Cuba. 



Type.— Cat. No. 28405, U.S.N.M. 



Described from a unique specimen collected at the type locality 

 March 3, by E. A. Schwarz. 



b 



EUGAMANDUS CAYAMAE. new species 



Form smaller and more elongate than schioarzi Fisher; above 

 dark reddish-brown, rather densely clothed with brownish-white 

 scalelike hairs, more or less variegated with dark brown, and with a 

 rather distinct large brown spot on each side of the elytra along 

 the lateral margin; beneath similar in color to above, but more 

 sparsely clothed with whitish pubescence, and with a few small, 

 round, brown spots on the abdomen. 



Head considerably wider than long and nearly flat in front, feebly 

 concave between the antennal tubercles, which are slightly elevated 

 and very widely separated, the surface coarsely, irregularly, but not 

 very densely punctate, rather densely clothed with recumbent whit- 

 ish and dark brown pubescence intermixed, and with a narrow 

 longitudinal groove extending from the epistoma to occiput; 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, the first five joints 

 more or less variegated with short brownish and whitish pubescence, 

 and the following joints pale brown, and more or less luteous at 

 the apex. 



Pronotum about one- fourth wider than long, base and apex equal 

 in width, widest at the middle, and the sides regularly arcuately 

 rounded ; surface feebly, transversely, an*d very broadly depressed 

 posteriorly, densely and coarsely punctate, with a scalelike hair in 

 the middle of each puncture, and rather densely clothed with re- 

 cumbent dark brown and brownish- white scalelike pubescence, but 

 not forming any distinct designs. Scutellum triangular, about as 



