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Museum by the G. G. Heye Haitian Expedition, and labeled " Santo 

 Domingo." 



Remarks. — Described from the type. 



This species is closely allied to mutatum Gahan, but it can be 

 distinguished from that species in having the elytra more uniformly 

 pubescent and without glabrous spaces. 



ELAPHIDION DOZIERI, new species 



Male. — Small, narrowly elongate, rather strongly flattened above, 

 uniformly dark reddish brown; pronotum subopaque, irregularly 

 clothed with pale yellow pubescence ; elytra rather strongly shining, 

 and irregularly clothed with white pubescence. 



Head coarsely, confluently punctate, sparsely clothed with incon- 

 spicuous, semierect hairs, with a small, round spot of dense, yellowish 

 pubescence behind each eye, front wider than long, flat between the 

 antennal tubercles, which are widely separated, and vaguely elevated ; 

 eyes deeply emarginate, separated from each other on the top by 

 nearly three times the width of the upper lobe. Antenna one and 

 one-half times as long as the body, sparsely, coarsely punctate, 

 sparsely clothed with long, recumbent and erect, yellowish hairs; 

 joints feebly, longitudinally grooved, but not spinose at apices ; first 

 joint robust, strongly clavate, subequal in length to the fourth joint, 

 which is considerably shorter than the third; eleventh joint subequal 

 in length to the tenth. 



Pronotum about as wide as long, and slightly narrower at base 

 than at apex; sides strongly, arcuately rounded, nearly parallel in 

 front of middle, strongly narrowed posteriorly; disk even, and nar- 

 rowly, transversely constricted along apex, surface coarsely, deeply, 

 confluently, ocellate-punctate, densely, irregularly clothed with long 

 recumbent and erect, yellowish pubescence. Scutellum broadly tri- 

 angular, curvilinear, and rather densely clothed with recumbent 

 white pubescence. 



Elytra nearly three times as long as pronotum, and at base about 

 as wide as pronotum at middle ; sides parallel from base to near the 

 tips, which are separately rounded, but not spinose; surface rather 

 densely, finely punctate, sparsely clothed with long, recumbent, white 

 pubescence, which is denser in places, giving the surface a variegated 

 appearance, and with numerous long, erect hairs intermixed. 



Abdomen beneath rather densely, coarsely punctate, very sparsely 

 clothed with recumbent and erect, inconspicuous hairs; last segment 

 broadly rounded at apex. Prosternum coarsely, densely punctate, 

 transversely rugose anteriorly, and sparsely clothed with long, semi- 

 erect, inconspicuous hairs; prosternal process very narrow, strongly 

 expanded behind the coxal cavities, and arcuately declivous pos- 



