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rous spots on each side; surface coarsely irregularly punctate, and 

 rather densely, irregularly clothed with long, recumbent, yellowish- 

 white pubescence, with a few long, erect hairs intermixed. Scutel- 

 lum broadly triangular, curvilinear, and rather densely clothed at 

 the sides with long, recumbent, grayish pubescence. 



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

 .slightly wider than pronotum at middle; sides parallel from base to 

 near the tips, which are separately, deeply emarginate, bispinose, 

 with the lateral spine slightly longer than the sutural one; disk 

 feebly, broadly flattened along the sutural margins ; surface coarsely, 

 rather sparsely, irregularly punctate, the punctures more obsolete 

 near apices, sparsely, irregularly clothed with long recumbent, gray- 

 ish pubescence, and with a more or less distinct glabrous space on 

 each elytron behind the middle. 



Abdomen beneath sparsely, vaguely punctate, clothed with long, 

 recumbent and erect, whitish pubescence, the pubescence dense at 

 the sides, sparse on the median parts ; last segment broadly rounded 

 at apex. Prosternum coarsely, sparsely punctate, and rather densely 

 clothed with long, recumbent and erect, whitish pubescence; pro- 

 sternal process rather narrow, sides nearly parallel, broadly rounded 

 at apex, and abruptly declivous posteriorly. Mesosternum broad, 

 even between the coxal cavities, and abruptly declivous in front. 

 Legs sparsely clothed with recumbent, grayish pubescence, with a 

 few long, erect hairs intermixed; femora rather strongly clavate, 

 posterior pair armed with two obtuse spines at apices, anterior and 

 middle pairs unarmed. 



Length, 9 mm. ; width, 2.4 mm. 



Type locality. — Fond Parisien, Haiti, which is on the south shore 

 of Lake Assuei, about 10 miles on a straight line (across the lake) 

 southeast of Manneville. This region would be arid except for irri- 

 gation, and has an altitude of 60 feet. 



Type. — In American Museum of Natural History. A unique fe- 

 male collected at light between February 11 and 18, 1922, by F. E. 

 Watson. 



Remarks. — Described from the type. 



This species resembles a small example of insulare Newman, but 

 it differs from that species in having the elytra somewhat costate, 

 causing the surface to be broadly flattened along the sutural mar- 

 gins. 



ELAPHIDION JAMAICENSIS, new species 



Female. — Broadly elongate, feebly convex above, and similar in 

 form to mucronatum Say. Above and beneath dark reddish brown, 

 legs slightly paler, rather strongly shining, elytra slightly costate, 

 and the grayish pubescence arranged in more or less distinct vittae. 



