ART. 22 NEW WEST INDIAN BEETLES FISHER 39 



Described from a single specimen collected on the island of 

 Montserrat, March 19, by H. G. Hubbard. 



This species is closely allied to Cyrtinus schwarzi Fisher, but can 

 be easily separated from that species by its paler color, by the fact 

 that the head is subopaque in front, the eyes more widely separated 

 above, the elytra with distinct basal tubercles, the erect hairs longer 

 and more widely separated in the rows, the abdomen more punctured 

 beneath, the sides of the sternum distinctly pubescent, and the 

 femora only obsoletely flattened laterally. 



ESSOSTRUTHA RAMSDENI, new species 



Fe7iuile. — Form elongate, subparallel and slightly flattened above; 

 head and jDronotum very densely clothed with scalelike orange-red 

 pubescence, which is slightly grayish at base, somewhat recumbent 

 on the head, but more erect on the pronotum, which also has a large, 

 semicircular, black spot on each side of the middle along the base; 

 elytra densely clothed with recumbent reddish-gray pubescence, and 

 ornamented with black markings as follows : An elongate spot ex- 

 tending from base to behind the humeri, not reaching the lateral 

 margin but extending obliquely inward to middle of disk, a broad 

 transverse fascia just behind the middle extending from lateral 

 margin to near the suture, and broadly connected along the lateral 

 margin to a large spot covering the apical sixth. Beneath similar 

 to above, with the anterior parts more brownish, last abdominal 

 segment black, and the legs more or less reddish-brown or black. 



Head moderately transverse and nearly flat in front, feebly con- 

 cave between the antennal tubercles, which are very widely separated 

 and feebly elevated, the surface sparsely, coarsely, and irregularly 

 punctate, and concealed by the pubescence; eyes large, finely granu- 

 lated, nearly divided, and separated from each other on the top 

 by about the width of the emargination of the eyes in front, the 

 lower lobes as wide as long, and strongly convex, the upper lobes 

 small and flattened. Antennae about as long as the body, entirely 

 black, densely clothed with short black pubescence, and with 

 numerous long, erect hairs on the under side of the joints. 



Pronotum nearly square, apex and base equal in width, the sides 

 nearly parallel, and only obsoletely tumid at middle; surface 

 regularly convex, feebly tumid on disk, and coarsely, sparsely, and 

 irregularly punctate, the punctuation being concealed by the dense 

 pubescence. Scutellum Avider than long and very broadly rounded 

 behind. 



Elytra a little more than two times as long as wide, and distinctly 

 wider than pronotum; humeri strongly developed; sides nearly 

 parallel to appical sixth, then arcuatoly rounded to the tips, which 

 are truncate, and separately arcuately emarginate; surface slightly 



