ART. 22 NEW WEST INDIAN BEETLES FISHER 21 



This species is of a nearly uniform color above, with only a few 

 dark spots at the apical fifth of elytra and is sparsely pubescent. It 

 resembles jainaicensis Gahan, but that species has a more or less 

 distinct oblique fascia near the middle of the elytra, in front of 

 wliicli the surface is more cinereous. 



LEPTOSTYLUS SCURRA, van DORSALIS, new variety 



Above rather densely clothed with short recumbent yollowish- 

 white pubescence, the pronotum with the median part of disk slightly 

 more brownish, and with two small black spots on the median line, 

 one at the anterior margin, the other at basal third; elytra with a 

 large brownish-black spot covering the scutellum and entire anterior 

 surface, except for a large triangular pale area at the humeri, the 

 posterior margin of the spot extending from near the lateral margin 

 at apical fourth obliquely forward to the suture at apical third, and 

 the anterior margin extending from near the lateral margin at basal 

 fourth obliquely forward to the scutellum. There are also a few 

 A-ery small, irregularly placed black spots on the pale apical area; an- 

 tennae mottled dark brown and yellowish-white; beneath luteous, 

 and the legs more or less mottled with brown and black; last abdomi- 

 nal segment at apex feebly arcuately emarginate in the female and 

 subtruncate or very broadly rounded in the male. 



Length, 3.75-4.75 mm. ; width, 1.5-2 mm. 



Type locality. — Cayamas, Cuba. 



Other localities. — Paradise Key and Miami, Florida. 



Type, allotype, and paratypes.—C^t. No. 28395, U.S.N.M. 



Paratypes. — Collection J, N. Knull. 



Described from seven specimens, two females and five males. The 

 type (female) collected May 29, and the allotype January 29, at the 

 type locality, by E. A. Schwarz ; one male collected March 12, 1919, 

 at Paradise Key, Florida, by the same collector; one male collected 

 from ^''Anona cheriviola " at Miami, Florida, during March, 1918, 

 by H. L. Sanford; a male and female collected at Paradise Key, 

 Florida, March 10, 1921, and one male from Miami, Florida, collected 

 March 21, 1921; the last three specimens collected by J. N. Knull. 



This variety differs from the typical scurra chiefly in having the 

 elytra entirely brownish-black, with the exception of the lateral 

 margin, apical region, and a large triangular area at humeri, where 

 the color is yellowish-white. 



LEPTOSTYLUS SCURRA. van MACULIFER, new variety 



Female. — Above rather densely clothed with short recumbent yel- 

 lowish-white pubescence, the pronotum with the median part of disk 

 slightly more brownish, and with two small black spots on the median 

 line, one at the anterior margin and the other at the base; eh'tra 



