ART. 22 NEW WEST INDIAN BEETLES FISHER 7 



spots from each of which arises a long, stiff, black hair, and orna- 

 mented with dark brown markings as follows : On each side near the 

 suture a narrow longitudinal somewhat sinuate spot extending from 

 the basal gibbosity backward to basal third, a large U-shaped spot 

 just behind the middle, which is conmion to both elytra, and a small 

 oblong spot towai'd the sides just in front of middle. Beneath red- 

 dish-brown, with the tibiae and tarsi paler, and the surface rather 

 sparsely clothed with short whitish pubescence. 



Head nearly two times as wide as long and feebly convex in front, 

 moderately broadly concave between the antennal tubercles, which 

 are very widely separated and moderately elevated, the surface 

 sparsely, coarsely, and irregularly punctate, with a narrow, obso- 

 lete, longitudinal groove on the vertex and occiput; eyes separated 

 from each other on the top by about one and one-half times the 

 width of the emargination of the eyes in front. Antennae yellowish- 

 white, with the joints slightly darker at apex. 



Pronotum only slightly wider than long, the apex and base equal 

 in width, and the sides regularly arcuately rounded at middle; sur- 

 face even, moderately convex, and rather densely and coarsely 

 punctate. 



Elytra slightly more than two times as long as wide, and distinctly 

 wider than pronotum; sides nearly parallel to middle, then arcuately 

 attenuate to the tips, which are separately narrowly rounded; surface 

 with a broad, feebly elevated gibbosity on each elytron near the base, 

 and densely, irregidarly punctate, the punctures very coarse on 

 basal region, but becoming much finer toward the apex. 



Beneath densely and regularly punctate, the punctures on the 

 sternum very coarse, those on the abdomen finer and more widely 

 separated; last abdominal segment broadly rounded at apex. 



Length, 3-4 mm. ; width, 1-1.25 mm. 



Tyfe locality. — Cayamas, Cuba. 



Type and paratopes.— Q2X. No. 28384, U.S.N.M. 



Described from a series of 30 specimens, all of which were col- 

 lected at the type locality during December, January, and March, by 

 E. A. Schwarz. 



The species is somewhat variable in the markings on the upper 

 surface. In some of the paratypes the pubescence is slightly more 

 cinereous, and the anterior dark brown spot is only feebly indicated, 

 and in one of the specimens the brown markings are nearly oblit- 

 erated. After carefully examining the series, I am unable to find 

 any good external character for separating the sexes. 



ISCHNOLEA LONGIPILIS. new species 



Subcylindrical, above brownish-yellow, the head and middle of 

 pronotum more reddish-brown, with feeble indications of darker 



