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appearance; tibiae strongly annulated Avith broAvn at middle and 

 apex, and the tarsi and tarsal claws more or less brownish; proster- 

 nal process three- fourths as wide as the coxal cavity ; femora moder- 

 ately clavate. 



Length, 7 mm. ; width, 3.2 mm. 



Type locality. ^CsLjSiinsis, Cuba. 



Type.— Cat No. 28392, U.S.N.M. 



Described from a unique male collected at the type locality on 

 June 8, by E. A. Schwarz. 



This small convex species is easily known by its W-shaped„ cin- 

 ereous fascia near the middle of the elytra. 



LEPTOSTYLUS ATROMACULATUS. new species 



Form similar to poeyi Fisher, but more robust and convex above, 

 brownish-black, densely clothed with cinereous or brownish-white 

 pubescence, and ornamented with numerous black spots; mandibles 

 black, with the base reddish; palpi brown, with the tips slightly 

 paler. 



Head quadrate in front of antennal tubercles, and nearly flat, 

 moderately concave between the antennal tubercles, which arc mod- 

 erately developed, and rather widely separated, the surface densely 

 clothed with short recumbent cinereous pubescence, more or less 

 mottled, concealing the surface, and with a moderately distinct nar- 

 row longitudinal groove extending from the epistoma to occiput; 

 eyes small, not very coarsely granulated, deeply emarginate, and 

 separated from each other on the top by about the width of the 

 emargination of the eyes in front, the lower lobes rounded, and the 

 upper lobes very narrow. Antennae slightly longer than the body, 

 mottled with brown and cinereous pubescence and the outer joints 

 more or less annulated with brown; first joint slender, subcylin- 

 drical, feebly expanded toward the apex, extending to basal fourth 

 of pronotum, and subequal in length to the third joint, which is dis- 

 tinctly longer that the fourth. 



Pronotum three-fifths wider than long, and the apex and base 

 about equal in width; sides feebly obtusely tumid at middle; sur- 

 face with a feeble transverse apical and basal depression, and with 

 seven tubercles on the disk arranged in two transverse lines, the five 

 median ones more strongly elevated, with numerous widely scattered 

 coarse punctures and a more distinct row in the apical and basal 

 depressions, the surface also rather densely and irregularly clothed 

 with recumbent whitish pubescence, and ornamented with darker 

 areas as follows : Three small spots along anterior margin, of which 

 the exterior ones are more elongate, and a large spot on the three 

 median tubercles, placed two in front and one behind, the latter with 

 the dark spot extending to the base. Scutellum broadly triangular. 



