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separated from each other at the top. Antenna one and one-half 

 times as long as the body, joints feebly flattened, unarmed at apices, 

 and sparsely clothed with short, inconspicuous, recumbent pubes- 

 cence; first joint robust, feebly arcuate, slightly clavate, subequal in 

 length to the fourth joint, which is slightly longer than the third; 

 eleventh joint slightly longer than the tenth. 



Pronotum distinctly longer than wide, and subequal in width at 

 base and apex ; sides obliquely diverging from apex to basal fourth, 

 where they are arcuately expanded, then strongly, narrowly con- 

 stricted at base ; disk even, narrowly, but not deeply, transversely de- 

 pressed along base; surface glabrous, densely minutely alutaceous. 

 Scutellum small, oval, and glabrous. 



Elytra slightly more than twice as long as pronotum, and at base 

 feebly wider than pronotum at basal fourth ; humeri moderately ele- 

 vated; sides nearly parallel from base to near the tips, which are 

 separately, broadly rounded ; surface glabrous, finely, densely granu- 

 lose, and uniformly, sparsely covered with small, inconspicuous 

 asperities. 



Abdomen beneath sparsely, feebly, punctate, and sparsely clothed 

 with short, semierect, inconspicuous hairs; last segment broadly 

 rounded and feebly emarginate at apex. Prosternum glabrous, finely 

 alutaceous posteriorly, feebly, transversely rugose anteriorly; pro- 

 sternal process very narrow between the coxal cavities, and arcuately 

 declivous posteriorly. Legs rather long, sparsely clothed with short, 

 recumbent, inconspicuous pubescence; femora strongly, abruptly cla- 

 vate, slightly flattened, petiolate at bases, unarmed at apices ; tibiae 

 slightly flattened, the anterior pair feebly arcuate. 



Length, 4.6-6.6 mm. ; width, 1-1.6 mm. 



Type locality. — Manneville, Haiti. 



Otliev locality. — Fond Parisien, Haiti. 



Type and paratype. — In American Museum of Natural History. 



Paratype.—U.^.'^.'K. No. 43733. 



Rerrmrhs. — Described from three examples received from the 

 American Museum of Natural History, all collected at light by F. E. 

 Watson : The type, collected February 18, 1922 ; and two paratypes, 

 collected at Fond Parisien, Haiti, between February 11 and 18, 1922. 

 Sexes not determined. 



This species is closely allied to attenuatus Chevrolat, described 

 from Cuba, but it differs from that species in having the elytra 

 opaque, densely granulose, and covered with small asperites. 



MEROSTENUS SIMILIS, new species 



Female. — Similar to asperatus Fisher, but differs from that species 

 as follows : Front of head flat between the antennal tubercles, which 



