ABT. 22 NEW WEST INDIAN BEETLES FISHER 13 



Head strongly transverse and flat in front, feebly concave between 

 the antennal tubercles, which are feebly elevated and widely sep- 

 arated, the surface sparsely, coarsely, and irregularly punctate, with 

 a narrow longitudinal groove extending from the epistoma to the 

 occiput; eyes rather coarsely granulated, very deeply emarginate, 

 and separated from each other on the top by a little more than the 

 width of the emargination of the eyes in front, the lower lobes 

 slightly longer than wide, and the upper lobes very small and nar- 

 row. Antennae rather robust, about as long as the body, yellowish- 

 white, with the tips of the joints irregularly annulated with brown, 

 the surface sparsely clothed with short cinereous pubescence, except 

 the first joint, which is more densely clothed with longer cinereous 

 and ocherous pubescence intermixed, and all the joints sparsely 

 ciliate beneath; first joint short, reversed cone shaped, not ex- 

 tending to middle of pronotum, and slightly shorter than the third 

 joint, which is subequal in length to the fourth, the following joints 

 shorter and gradually decreasing in length. 



Pronotum distinctly wider than long, apex and base about equal 

 in width; sides feebly arcuately rounded, with a short, rather acute 

 tooth on each side at middle; surface somewhat uneven, and rather 

 densely, coarsely punctate. Scutellum semicircular, smooth, and 

 densely pubescent. 



Elytra at base nearly a third wider than the pronotum, and two 

 times as long as wide ; humeral angles broadly rounded ; sides grad- 

 ually arcuately attenuate from base to the tips, which are separately 

 narrowly rounded; surface regularly convex, obsoletel}^ costate near 

 suture, with rows of coarse, irregularly placed punctures, and the 

 intervals densely, obsoletely punctate. 



Prosternum arcuately declivous in front and behind, and narrow 

 between the anterior coxae. Mesosternum A^ertical in front and tri- 

 angular between the middle coxae. Abdomen beneath densely, ob- 

 soletely punctate, with a few coarser punctures toward the sides; 

 last segment feebly concave near apex, which is truncate and slightly 

 emarginate. Femora moderately robust, the anterior pair slightly 

 more swollen than the middle and posterior ones, the latter extend- 

 ing to the posterior margin of the third abdominal segment. Tibiae 

 rather slender, straight, and subcylindrical. Tarsi narrow and not 

 broadly expanded. 



Length, 9.5-10.5 mm. ; width, 4-A.25 mm. 



Tijpe locality. — Jamaica. 



Type and paratype.—Csit. No. 28389, U.S.N.M. 



Described from two specimens, probably both females. The type 

 was collected by W. Schaus and the paratypc by C. H. Ballou during 

 October, 1923. The paratype is slightly smaller than the type and 

 the elytra is not quite so strongly acuminate posterio^h^ 



