ART. 22 NEW CEEAMBYCID BEETLES FISHER 23 



is a South American species and should not be included in lists of 

 West Indian Coleoptera. 



ELAPHIDION ROTUNDIPENNE, new species 



Male. — Broadly elongate, moderately convex above, and similar in 

 form to incertum Newman. Above and beneath uniformly dark 

 reddish brown, feebly shining, and irregularly clothed with gray 

 pubescence. 



Head sparsely, coarsely, irregularly punctate, sparsely, irregularly 

 clothed with long, recumbent, grayish pubescence, front distinctly 

 wider than long, nearly flat, with a feeble, longitudinal groove 

 between the antenna! tubercles, which are widely separated, and 

 feebly elevated; eyes deeply emarginate, separated from each other 

 on the top by a little more than the width of the upper lobe. 

 Antenna one and one-half times as long as the body, basal joints 

 sparsely punctate, and sparsely clothed with short, recumbent hairs, 

 with a few long, erect hairs on the underside of the joints, apical 

 joints finely, densely punctate, and densely clothed with short, re- 

 cumbent, whitish pubescence, joints 3 and 4 unispinose at apices, 

 the following joints bispinose, but the spines becoming very short 

 on the apical joints; first joint robust, strongly clavate, subequal in 

 length to the fourth joint, which is slightly shorter than the third, 

 the following joints subequal in length to the third ; eleventh joint 

 slightly longer than the tenth, and more or less flattened. 



Pronotum slightly wider than long, and about equal in width at 

 base and apex; sides feebly, arcuately rounded; disk uneven, and 

 ornamented with an elongate, irregular, median, glabrous space, 

 and a rounded, irregular, glabrous space on each side in front of 

 middle; surface sparsely, coarsely, irregularly punctate, and 

 sparsely, irregularly clothed with long, recumbent, gray pubescence. 

 Scutellum broadly triangular, curvilinear, and densely clothed with 

 recumbent, gray pubescence. 



Elytra not quite three times as long as pronotum, and at base 

 about equal in width to pronotum at middle ; humeral angles broadly 

 rounded; sides nearly parallel from base to apical sixth, then 

 arcuately narrowed to the tips, which are broadly rounded, and not 

 spinose; surface densely, irregularly punctate, the punctures coarse 

 on basal halves, but becoming smaller toward apices, and irregularly 

 clothed with patches of long, recumbent, gray pubescence, which does 

 not conceal the surface. 



Abdomen beneath sparsely, finely punctate, rather densely clothed 

 with long, recum.bent, gray pubescence, with a fcAv long, erect hairs 

 intermixed, but the pubescence not quite concealing the surface ; last 

 segment broadly rounded at apex. Prosternum sparsely, coarsely 



