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inconspicuous hairs. Femora robust, feebly flattened, sparsely 

 clothed with long, semierect, pale yellow hairs, and with numerous 

 small, brown asperities on the underside, the middle and posterior 

 pairs slightly longer, feebly arcuate, petiolate at bases, and strongly, 

 abruptly clavate toward the apices. Tibiae slightly flattened, 

 coarsely rugose, with numerous small, brown asperities, and densely 

 clothed with long, semierect, yellowish hairs. 



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

 slender, not quite so long as the body, outer joints cylindrical, the 

 first joint only slightly shorter than the third joint, and subequal in 

 length to the fourth; abdomen beneath smooth, without asperities, 

 and the last segment broadly rounded at apex ; legs less robust, and 

 the femora and tibiae without asperities. 



Length, 9-18 mm.; width, 2.2-4 mm. 



Tyfe locality. — L'Atalaye, Haiti. 



Other locality. — St. Michel, Haiti. 



Type., allotype., and paratypes. — U.S.N.M. No. 43707. 



Paratypes. — In American Museum of Natural History. 



Remarks. — Described from 45 examples (one male type) : The type, 

 allotype, and 37 paratypes, collected at light, at the type locality, 

 between February 21 and March 8, 1928, by A. J. Poole; and 6 

 paratypes collected in a house at St. Michel, Haiti, between February 

 10 and 15, 1928, by the same collector. 



There is considerable variation in size in the series examined, and 

 also more or less variation in the shape of the pronotum. Many of 

 the examples resemble the type, but in others the pronotum is more 

 or less uneven, with an inconspicuous, longitudinal, median, smooth 

 vitta, and the sides are regularly, arcuately rounded from base to 

 apex. 



METHIA PALLIDA, new species 



Narrowly elongate, strongly flattened above, feebly shining, above 

 uniformly pale yellow, except the eyes, which are black, beneath 

 pale yellow, with the abdomen usually darker. 



Head in front nearly square, flat, broadly, feebly concave between 

 the antennal tubercles, which are broadly separated and feebly 

 elevated, feebly, coarsely punctate, finely rugose, sparsely, uniformly 

 clothed with short, semierect, yellow pubescence, and with a longi- 

 tudinal carina extending from epistoma to occiput; eyes very large, 

 nearly divided (connecting piece without facets), and nearl}'^ con- 

 tiguous on the top. Antenna one and one-half times as long as the 

 bod.y, rather densely clothed with moderately long, semierect yellow- 

 ish hairs; first joint robust, cylindrical, slightly enlarged toward 

 apex, and one-half as long as the third joint, which is subequal in 

 length to the fourth; eleventh joint subequal in length to the tenth. 



