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markings on the elytra, and the antennae uniformly pale brownish- 

 yellow; beneath chestnut-brown, except the legs and four posterior 

 segments of abdomen, which are pale brownish-yellow ; tips of man- 

 dibles black ; palpi pale yellow. 



Head flat between tlie antennal tubercles, rather densely and very 

 coarsely punctate, rather densely clothed with recumbent yellowish- 

 white pubescence, and with numerous long, slender, erect hairs of the 

 same color intermixed; eyes nearly divided, not very widely sepa- 

 rated above, and distinctly emarginate on lateral margin; antennae 

 about four-fifths as long as body, compact, rather densely clothed 

 with long, flying, black and yellowish-white hairs intermixed, and 

 in addition, joints eight to eleven densely clothed with fine whitish 

 pubescence on their exterior margin, the first joint about twice as 

 long as wide, and the third joint slightly longer than the fourth. 



Pronotum slightly wider than long, base and apex about equal m 

 width; sides arcuately rounded, with a short obtuse tooth at the 

 middle; anterior margin strongly arcuately rounded; surface regu- 

 larly convex, densely and A^ery coarsely punctate, rather densely 

 clothed with short recumbent yellowish-white pubescence, forming 

 more densely clothed, irregular lines toward the sides; and in addi- 

 tion, with long, flying, whitish hairs, and a large fascicle of rather 

 densely placed, long, erect, blackish hairs at the middle. 



Elytra wider than pronotum at base, two times as long as wide, 

 broadly rounded at humeral angles, and the sides parallel to apical 

 sixth, then arcuately attenuate to the tips, which are separately 

 rounded; surface convex, without costae, densely, A^ery coarsely 

 punctate, and rather densely clothed with recumbent yellowish- white 

 pubescence, and with more or less obsolete lines of white hairs ar- 

 ranged as follows: An oblong ring behind the humeri; an oblique 

 line extending on each side from the humerus to suture at basal 

 third, which bears a small fascicle of long white hairs, and behind 

 the middle two transverse irregular lines, the anterior line bearing 

 one, and the posterior line two, small fascicles of long white hairs 

 on each side, and in addition to which are numerous long, erect, 

 yellowish-white hairs with a few black ones intermixed. 



Body beneath rather densely and finely punctate, and rather 

 densely clothed with long recumbent yellowish-white pubescence, 

 which conceals the punctures; last abdominal segment broadly 

 rounded or subtruncate at apex; prosternum very narrow between 

 the anterior coxae, not tuberculate, and the surface not raised to 

 the level of the coxae; legs rather densely clothed Avith long whitish 

 hairs. 



Length, 4.4-6.1 mm.; Avidth, 1.7-2.2 mm. 



Type locality. — Cayamas, Cuba. 



Type and paratype.— Cat. No. 28385, U.S.N.M. 



