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abruptly declivous. Mesosternum broad, flat, and abruptly declivous 

 in front. Legs densely, irregularly clothed with long, recumbent and 

 erect, yellowish and whitish pubescence intermixed, causing the sur- 

 face to have a mottled appearance ; femora robust, slightly expanded 

 near middle, the middle and posterior pairs feebly bispinose at apices, 

 with the inner spine slightly longer than the outer one. 



Female. — Differs from the male in having the antenna only slightly 

 longer than the body, the eleventh joint broad, and subequal in length 

 to the tenth, prosternum more coarsely punctured at middle, and the 

 last abdominal segment broadly rounded at apex. 



Length, 12-18 mm. ; width, 2.8-4.8 mm. 



Tyye locality. — Cayamas, Cuba. 



Type, allotype, and paratypes. — U.S.N.M. No. 43717. 



Paratype. — In American Museum of Natural History. 



Remarks. — Described from eight examples (one type), all collected 

 at the type locality, during January, February, and March, by E. A. 

 Schwarz. 



This species is easily distinguished from the other described West 

 Indian species of this genus having the third and fourth joints of the 

 antennae unispinose, and the prosternum abruptly declivous at the 

 apex, by the distinct tubercles on the pronotum. 



The specimens examined vary considerable in size and show a 

 slight variation in the white pubescent markings on the basal halves 

 of the elytra ; in some examples this spot is quite distinct, whereas in 

 others it is more or less obsolete. 



ELAPHIDION CUBAE, new species 



Female. — Short, rather narrowly elongate, moderately convex 

 above, and similar in form to nanmn Fabricius. Above black, rather 

 strongly shining, and irregularly clothed with whitish pubescence; 

 beneath brownish black. 



Head coarsely, confluently punctate, longitudinally rugose, sparsely 

 clothed with long, recumbent, yellowish-white pubescence, front 

 distinctly wider than long, flat between the antennal tubercles, which 

 are widely separated, but not elevated; eyes deeply emarginate, 

 separated from each other on the top by twice the width of the upper 

 lobe. Antenna not quite so long as the body, basal joints sparsely, 

 coarsely punctate, sparsely clothed with long, recumbent, yellowish- 

 white pubescence, with a few long, erect hairs on the underside of 

 the joints, apical joints broader, finely, densely punctate, and rather 

 densely clothed with short, recumbent, yellowish-white pubescence; 

 joints 3 to 10 unispinose at apices, the spines becoming very small on 

 outer joints; first joint robust, feebly clavate, slightly longer than 



