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uniformly clothed with inconspicuous, recumbent and erect, grayish 

 pubescence, which does not conceal the surface. 



Abdomen beneath sparsely, finely punctate, sparsely clothed with 

 long, recumbent and erect, whitish hairs; last segment broadly 

 rounded at apex. Prosternum transversely depressed at middle and 

 along anterior margin, coarsely punctate, more or less rugose, and 

 sparsely clothed with long, recumbent and erect white hairs ; proster- 

 nal process rather narrow, expanded behind the coxal cavities, and 

 arcuately declivous posteriorly. Mesosternum broad, even between 

 the coxal cavities, and abruptly declivous in front. Legs rather 

 densely clothed with long, fine, recumbent and erect, white hairs 

 intermixed; femora rather strongly expanded near middle, but not 

 spinose at the tips. 



Length, 14 mm. ; width, 3.2 mm. 



Type locality. — Mariani, Haiti. 



ry;?e.— U.S.N.M. No. 43723. A unique female collected on March 

 27, 1925, by W. A. Hoffman. 



Remarks. — Described from the type. This species can be sepa- 

 rated from all the other described species of this genus found in the 

 West Indies in having the antennal joints unarmed at the tips, the 

 el5^ra broadly flattened along the sutural margins, and the surface 

 uniformly clothed with very fine, erect and recumbent pubescence 

 intermixed. 



ELAPHIDION INERME Newman 



Elaphidion inerme Newman, Entomologist, vol. 1, p. 29, 1840. 



This species was described by Newman from North America, but 

 among the material received from the American Museum of Natural 

 History were five examples, which are identical with specimens of 

 inemie from Florida. One of these examples was collected on Man- 

 grove Cay, Andros Islands, during May or June, 1904, by W. M. 

 Wlieeler, two collected at the same locality, during May and June, 

 1917, by William M. Mann, and two other examples simply labeled 

 "Andros Islands, Bahamas." 



ELAPHIDION PILOSUM, new species 



Female. — Large, broadly elongate, moderately convex above, and 

 similar in form to mutatum Gahan. Above and beneath uniformly 

 dark reddish brown, feebly shining, and irregularly clothed with 

 grayish and yellowish pubescence. 



Head coarsely, confluently punctate, rather densely clothed with 

 long, recumbent and erect, yellowish pubescence, which does not 

 conceal the surface, front distinctly wider than long, somewhat 

 uneven, flat between the antennal tubercles, which are widely sepa- 



