ART. 22 NEW WEST INDIAN BEETLES FISHER 23 



This variety can be separated from the typical hiustus by the 

 broad, olivaceous-brown markings on disk of elytra, which are only 

 indicated in the tyi^ical form by a narrow oblique fascia on each 

 <ilytron just behind the middle, and form an inverted letter V com- 

 mon to both elytra. 



I.EPT0STYLUS BRUNERI, new species 



Form rather short and robust, strongly convex, dark brown, 

 densely clothed with cinereous and brownish-white pubescence, and 

 ornamented with brownish-black pubescent markings; mandibles 

 black; palpi brownish-black, with the tips luteous. 



Head between the eyes in front of antennal tubercles about as long 

 as wide, and feebly convex, broadly concave between the antennal 

 tubercles, which are moderately developed, and rather widely sepa- 

 rated, the surface densely, somewhat irregularly clothed with recum- 

 bent yellowish-white pubescence, giving it a feebly mottled appear- 

 ance, and concealing the punctuation, and with a narrow longitudi- 

 nal groove extending from the epistoma to occiput; eyes small, not 

 very coarsely granulated, deeply emarginate, and separated from 

 each other on the top by nearly the width of the emargination of 

 the eyes in front, the lower lobes rounded, and the upper lobes very 

 narrow. Antennae about one and one-fourth times as long as the 

 body, the first four joints mottled with brown and cinereous pubes- 

 cence, the following joints (except the last, which is entirely brown) 

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

 cal, feebly expanded toward apex, extending to basal third of pro- 

 notum, and subequal in length to the third joint, which is slightly 

 longer than the fourth. 



Pronotum three-fifths wider than long, base and apex about equal 

 in width; sides feebly constricted near apical angles, broadly arcu- 

 ately rounded at middle, and parallel at basal fifth; surface with a 

 feeble transverse apical and basal depression, and with three dis- 

 tinct but not very strongly elevated tubercles on the disk, two in 

 front and one behind, with a distinct row of rather coarse punctures 

 in the apical and basal depressions, the surface also densely clothed 

 with recumbent whitish pubescence, and ornamented with brown- 

 ish-black areas as follows: Two small obsolete spots along anterior 

 margin, a large spot on each side along lateral margin extending 

 from the middle to base, three small spots along base, and the 

 three discal tubercles covered with pubescence of the same color. 

 Scutellum broadly triangular, broadly rounded behind, the surface 

 nearly flat, and sparsely clothed with cinereous pubescence. 



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

 pronotum; humeri rather prominent but not strongly elevated; 

 sides nearly parallel to middle, then arcuately attenuate to the tips, 



