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13. ATAENIUS ELONGATUS (Palisot) 



Scarabaeus elongatus Palisot de Beauvois, 1811, Insectes recueillis en Afrique 



et en Am^rique ..., livr. 7, p. 104, pi. 3c, fig. 8. 

 Ataenius elongatus Fletjtiaux and SAiii:, 1889, Aim. Soc. Ent. France, set. 6, 



vol. 9, p. 397 (probably erroneous determination of Guadeloupe specimens). 



Piceous to black, extreme anterior margins of head and pronotum, 

 legs, antennae, and trophi castaneous. Anterior margin of head 

 rounded each side of median subangulate emargination, front strongly 

 convex, almost gibbous at middle, very finely and rather densely punc- 

 tured, vertex a little more coarsely punctured. Pronotum with mar- 

 ginal setae only at sides, marginal groove entire, extreme margin 

 acute. Surface very finely alutaceous, evenly, densely, and uniformly 

 punctured throughout. Elytral striae fine and deep, strial punc- 

 tures absent, intervals feebly convex, finely alutaceous, very sparsely 

 and minutely punctulate, the punctures tending to form two rows 

 on each interval. Lateral margin subcarinate, epipleura shining 

 but rather roughly sculptured. Pygidial carina with strong median 

 cusp, apical margin thickened. Metasternum shining, median por- 

 tion slightly elevated, finely and moderately densely punctured, 

 median groove abruptly terminated anteriorly. Abdominal sternites 

 minutely punctured, more coarsely so at sides, basal transverse row 

 of pits on each sternite fine. Anterior femur with perimarginal 

 groove, the surface sparsely and indefinitely punctured. Posterior 

 femur without marginal groove, surface shining and minutely but 

 sparsely punctulate ; posterior tibia without accessory spine. Length : 

 5-5.7 mm. 



Type. — ^Location unknown to the author. 



Type locality. — Santo Domingo [Hispaniolal. 



Material examined. — In all, 43 specimens have been studied, all from 

 Hispaniola. Localities represented are: Haiti — Port-au-Prince, San 

 Michel, Bayeux; Dominican Republic — Santiago, San Francisco 

 Mountains, Barahona, Monte Cristi, and Puerto Plata. 



The record of this species from Guadeloupe seems to me doubtful, 

 as Fleutiaux and Salle comment specifically on the pronotal puncta- 

 tion of their specimens. These were possibly A. darlingtoni Hinton. 



14. ATAENIUS EDWARDSI, new species 



Piceous to black, anterior margins of head and pronotum and 

 legs castaneous, antennae and trophi paler. Anterior margin of 

 head broadly rounded each side of the moderately deep median 

 emargination, front convex, in male finely and rather densely punctu- 

 late and finely transversely rugulose near margin; in female much 

 more strongly rugulose nearly to vertex, vertex more coarsely and 

 not densely punctate. Pronotum with marginal setae longer toward 



