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recumbent and semierect, grayish hairs intermixed; femora moder- 

 ately clavate, the middle pair armed with an obtuse spine on inner 

 side at apices, posterior pair with two obtuse spines at apices, the 

 inner spine longer than the outer one. 



Length, 14-15 mm.; width, 4-4,4 mm. 



Type locality. — Mandeville, Manchester, Jamaica. 



Other locality. — Trelawney, Jamaica. 



Type. — In American Museum of Natural History. 



Paratype.—\].^:^M.. No. 43725. 



Ronarks. — Described from two females (one type) received from 

 the American Museum of Natural History. The type collected at 

 light, December 20, 1919, by F. E. Watson, and the paratype collected 

 at Trelawney, Jamaica, March 17, 1931, by E. L. Bell (Ace. 31224). 



This species does not entirely agree with the other species of this 

 genus, and differs from the other described West Indian species in 

 having the prosternal process acutely rounded at the apex, and not 

 declivous, and the mesosternum deeply, triangularly emarginate in 

 front for the insertion of the prosternal process, 



ELAPHroiON ANTILLARUM, new species 



Female. — Narrowly elongate, subcylindrical, strongly convex above. 

 Above and beneath uniformly dark reddish brown, strongly shining, 

 antennae slightly paler, and the elytra irregularly ornamented with 

 white pubescent spots. 



Head coarsely, confluently punctate, sparsely clothed with recum- 

 bent, whitish hairs, with a small spot of dense, whitish pubescence be- 

 hind each antennal tubercle, front slightly wider than long, flat 

 between the antennal tubercles, which are widely separated, and 

 feebly elevated; eyes deeply emarginate, and separated from each 

 other on the top by three times the width of the upper lobe. Antenna 

 not quite so long as the body, rather coarsely sparsely punctate, 

 sparsely clothed with long, recumbent and erect, whitish hairs inter- 

 mixed, surface more finely punctate and more densely pubescent on 

 apical joints; joints vaguely spinose; first joint robust, moderately 

 clavate, subequal in length to the third joint, which is slightly longer 

 than the fourth ; eleventh joint subequal in length to the tenth. 



Pronotum vaguely wider than long, and subequal in width at base 

 and apex; sides strongly, arcuately rounded; disk even, moderately 

 convex; surface densely alveolate-punctate, the cells deep and elon- 

 gate, a short, recumbent, whitish hair arising from each puncture, and 

 clothed with a few long, erect hairs, Scutellum broadly triangular, 

 curvilinear, and rather densely clothed with recumbent, whitish 

 pubescence. 



