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wavy, recumbent, grayish pubescence, which does not quite conceal 

 the surface. Scutellum broadly triangular, curvilinear, and densely 

 clothed with recumbent, grayish pubescence. 



Elytra three and one-half times as long as pronotum, and at base 

 slightly wider than pronotum at middle; sides parallel from base 

 to near the tips, which are separately, broadly truncate, bispinose, 

 with the lateral spine much longer than the sutural one; surface 

 sparsely punctate, the punctures coarse on basal halves, but becom- 

 ing more obsolete toward the apices, and rather densely, irregularly 

 clothed with moderately long, recumbent, grayish pubescence, not 

 concealing the surface, but giving it a variegated appearance. 



Abdomen beneath sparsely, irregularly punctate, rather densely 

 clothed with long, recumbent, white pubescence, with a few long, 

 erect hairs intermixed, but the pubescence not concealing the sur- 

 face ; last segment broadly rounded, and feebly emarginate at apex. 

 Prosternum sparsely, coarsely punctate, rather densely clothed with 

 long, recumbent, white pubescence ; prosternal process flat, obliquely 

 expanded to apex, which is truncate, and abruptly declivous. Meso- 

 sternum obliquely declivous in front. Femora slender, slightly 

 clavate toward tips, and the middle and posterior pairs bispinose at 

 apices, with the inner spine considerably longer than outer one. 



Length, 15 mm.; width, 4 mm. 



Type locality. — Fresh Creek, Andros Islands. 



Type. — In American Museum of Natural History. Collected dur- 

 in May-June, 1917, by William M. Mann. 



Reviarks. — Described from the type, a female. 



This species is closely allied to conspersum Newman, but it can be 

 separated from that species in having the pronotum more uneven, 

 the pubescence longer and more wavy, and the pubescence on the 

 elytra gray and more uniformly distributed. 



ELAPHmiON BIDENS (Fabricius) 



Stenocorus didens Fabeicius, Mantissa insectoruiu, vol. 1, no. S, p. 143, 1787 



(not bidens Olivier, Newman, Chevrolat). 

 Ceranihyx Mspinosus Gmelin, in Linnaeus, Systema naturae, ed. 13, vol. 1, pt. 



4, No. 322, p. 1859, 1700. 



This species was described by Fabricius (1787) from South Amer- 

 ica, and Gmelin (1790) redescribed the same species under the name 

 of bispinosus, citing hidens Fabricius (op. cit.). The species was 

 included by Chevrolat (1862) in his Coleoptera of the island of 

 Cuba, but his specimens were compared with the tj^pe of hidens 

 Olivier, which is not the hidens described by Fabricius, but which 

 is given by Aurivillius ^ as a synonym of irroratum Linnaeus. This 



» Catalogus Coleopterorum, pt. 39, p. 87, 1912. 



