>RT. i-'i; NEW WEST INDIAN BEETT^ES FISHER 19 



subtrimcate behind, the surface feebly concave, densely clothed with 

 dark brown and cinereous pubescence, except for a median longi- 

 tudinal glabrous line. 



Elytra four-fifths longer than wide, and a fifth wider than the 

 pronotum ; humeri not very prominent or elevated ; sides nearly 

 parallel to apical third, then strongly arcuately attenuate to the 

 tips, which are feebly obliquely truncate internally, with the ex- 

 terior angles obtuse, but not produced; surface regularly convex, 

 rather even, finely, densely, and irregularly punctate over entire 

 surface, densely clothed with recumbent cinereous pubescence, which 

 is slightly browner toward the sides and nearly conceals the punc- 

 tuation, with numerous irregularly placed tubercles, which are 

 densely clothed with black pubescence, and each elytron with two or 

 three black spots placed transversely at apical third, behind which 

 the surface is variegated with cinereous, ocherous, and brownish 

 pubescence, with a few small black spots intermixed. 



Beneath finely, densely punctate, and rather densely clothed with 

 cinereous pubescence, which is more or less mottled; tibiae feebly 

 annulated with brown at middle and apex; last two tarsal joints 

 and claws brownish-black; prosternal process nearly as wide as the 

 coxal cavity; femora strongly clavate. 



Length, 9 mm. ; width, 4.3 mm. 



Type locality. — Central Constancia, Cuba. 



Type.— Cfit. No. 28393, U.S.N.M. 



Described from a single example, probably a male, collected at 

 the type locality by J. F. Merrill, during May, 1914. 



This species is separated from the other known species of this 

 genus found in the West Indies by its regularly convex and rather 

 even elytra, which are clothed with cinereous pubescence, with a 

 more or less interrupted black fascia at apical third, and ornamented 

 with numerous small black tubercles. 



LEPTOSTYLUS DUVALI, new species 



Form strongly robust and moderately convex above, uniformly 

 reddish-brown, not very densely clothed with yellowish-white 

 pubescence, and ornamented with darker and paler areas; mandi- 

 bles black, with base reddish ; palpi orange yellow. 



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

 rather deeply, angularly depressed between the antennal tubercles, 

 which are moderately developed, and rather widely separated, the 

 surface not very densely clothed with short recumbent yellowish- 

 white pubescence, more or less mottled, not quite concealing the sur- 

 face, and with a moderately distinct narrow longitudinal groove ex- 

 tending from the epistoma to occiput; eyes small, not very coarsely 

 granulated, deeply emarginate, and separated from each other on 



