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densely clothed with cinereous and brownish-yellow pubescence, 

 which is more cinereous in the scutellar and apical regions, and each 

 elytron with a few irregularly shaped, blacldsh markings at the 

 middle, and a more or less distinct, narrow, transverse, cinereous 

 fascia just behind the middle which is bent forward into a small 

 acute angle at middle of disk. 



Beneath densely, obsoletely punctate, and sparsely clothed with 

 cinereous pubescence; last abdominal segment slightly longer than 

 the fourth and subtruncate at apex; middle coxae separated by about 

 their own width; femora strongly clavate toward apex, and the 

 anterior pair distinctly shorter than the middle and posterior pairs ; 

 basal joint of hind tarsi shorter than the following joints united. 



Female. — Differs from the male in having the antennae shorter 

 (last joint missing), femora not quite so strongly clavate, and the 

 last abdominal segment longer, more acuminate, and feebly arcuately 

 emarginate at apex. 



Length, 4,5-5 mm. ; width, 2-2.4 mm. "^ 



Type locality. — Cayamas, Cuba. 



Type, allotype, and paratypes.—Q^X. No. 28400, U.S.N.M. 



Described from four specimens, three males and one female, col- 

 lected at the type locality by E. A. Schwarz, between May 6 and 

 June 5. 



The specimens examined vary a good deal in the coloration above. 

 In some examples the black marldngs on the pronotum are very 

 distinct, the median one extending from tlie middle to the base, 

 and there is also a more or less distinct black mark at the lateral 

 tubercles, but in one specimen these black markings are only vaguely 

 indicated. The pubescence on the elytra is also more brownish- 

 yellow, and the transverse cinereous fascia nearly obsolete. 



LEPTURGES CHAMAEROPSIS, new species 



Male. — Form narrow, elongate, and rather strongly depressed 

 above, similar to signatus LeConte, luteous in color, with the sides 

 and apex of elytra slightly more luteo-testaceous, and without any 

 maculations. 



Head nearly square and strongly convex in front, feebly depressed 

 between the antennal tubercles, which are scarcely elevated, and 

 widely separated, the surface densely and very finely granulose, 

 sparsely clothed with inconspicuous recumbent cinereous pubescence, 

 and with a distinct narrow longitudinal groove extending from the 

 epistoma to occiput; eyes rather small, not very coarsely granulate, 

 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 small and narrow. Antennae 

 two times as long as the body, uniformly dark luteous, and sparsely 

 clothed with inconspicuous cinereous pubescence. 



