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the third joint, which is a little longer than the fourth, the following 

 joints subequal in length. 



Pronotum about as wide as long, and about equal in width at base 

 and apex; sides rather strongly, arcuately rounded; disk even, with 

 an inconspicuous, glabrous, elongate, median vitta, not extending to 

 base or anterior margin; surface coarsely, irregularlj^, confluently 

 punctate, sparsely clothed with long, recumbent, whitish pubescence, 

 which is denser in some places. Scutellum broadly triangular, cur- 

 vilinear, and densely clothed with long, recumbent whitish pubescence. 



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

 slightly wider than pronotum at middle; humeral angles broadly 

 rounded; sides feebly narrowed from base to the tips, which are 

 separately, deeply emarginate, bispinose, the spines subequal in length 

 and not very widely separated ; surface rather densely punctate, the 

 punctures coarse on basal regions, but becoming finer toward the 

 apices, rather densely, irregularly clothed with long, recumbent, 

 whitish pubescence, with numerous long, erect hairs intermixed 

 and with a more or less distinct, irregular, subglabrous spot on each 

 elytron near middle, and a similar, but smaller, spot at basal fourth 

 near the sutural margins. 



Abdomen beneath sparsely, finely punctate, rather densely clothed 

 at sides with long, recumbent and erect, white hairs, more sparsely 

 clothed on median parts; last segment broadly rounded at apex. 

 Prosternum coarsely, sparsely punctate, rather densely clothed with 

 long, whitish pubescence, especially at the sides; prosternal process 

 rather narrow, slightly expanded toward apex, which is broadly 

 rounded, and abruptly declivous. Mesosternum broad, and obliquely 

 declivous in front. Legs sparsely clothed with long, recumbent and 

 erect, whitish hairs; femora robust, rather strongly clavate toward 

 the tips, which are not spinose. 



Length, 10 mm.; width, 2.8 mm. 



Type locality. — Santiago, Cuba. 



Type. — U.S.N.M. No. 43718. A unique female collected October 

 10, 1903, by Wirt Kobinson. 



Remarks. — Described from the type. 



This species resembles nanum Fabricius in a number of ways, but 

 it can be easily separated from that species in being uniformly black 

 above, third and fourth antennal joints armed with a long spine at 

 their tips, each elytron bispinose at apex, and the prosternal process 

 abruptly declivous at the apex. 



ELAPHmiON FASCIATUM, new species 



Male. — Broadly elongate, slightly flattened above, and similar in 

 form to inerme Newman. Above and beneath reddish black, rather 



