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are not elevated, antennae about as long as the body, and the joints 

 cylindrical, pronotum shorter, the surface more finely alutaceous, and 

 not transversely depressed along the base, elytra three times as long 

 as the pronotum, and the surface coarsely, densely, and uniformly 

 punctate, except the extreme tips. 



Length, 6.2-6.8 mm; width, 1.2-1.4 mm. 



Tyfe locality. — Antigua, West Indies. 



Ti/pe.— U.S.N.M. No. 43734. Collected in June. 



Paratype. — In American Museum of Natural History. Labeled 

 "Antigua, October 24, 1911," and donated to that museum by C. W. 

 Leng. 



Remarks. — Described from the type and paratype. 



MEROSTENUS ELONGATUS, new species 



Female. — Narrow, subcylindrical, and slightly more slender than 

 atteniuitus Chevrolat. Above and beneath feebly shining, yellowish 

 brown, with the prosternum and underside of abdomen slightly 

 darker. 



Head densely, coarsely punctate, rather densely clothed with short, 

 recumbent, yellowish pubescence, front rather strongly constricted 

 by the eyes, deeply, narrowly, transversely depressed behind the 

 epistoma, with a vague, narrow, median, longitudinal groove, and 

 feebly, broadly depressed on vertex, broadly concave between the 

 antennal tubercles, which are slightly elevated ; eyes large, strongly 

 convex, moderately emarginate, and widely separated from each 

 other on the top. Antenna about as long as the body, joints cylin- 

 drical, unarmed at apices, and sparsely clothed with short, recum- 

 bent pubescence; first joint robust, feebly arcuate, slightly clavate, 

 subequal in length to the fourth joint, which is slightly longer than 

 the third; eleventh joint subequal in length to the tenth. 



Pronotum distinctly longer than wide, and subequal in width at 

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

 fourth, where they are broadly, arcuately expanded, then feebly, 

 narrowly constricted at base; disk slightly uneven, with five vague 

 callosities, one median, and two arranged longitudinally on each 

 side; surface densely, finely punctate, and rather densely clothed 

 with short, recumbent, inconspicuous pubescence. Scutellum small, 

 elongate, and densely clothed with recumbent pubescence. 



Elytra nearly four times as long as pronotum, and at base slightly 

 wider than pronotum at basal fourth ; humeri moderately elevated ; 

 sides nearly parallel from base to apical sixth, then strongly nar- 

 rowed to the tips, which are separately, acutely rounded; surface 

 densely, coarsely, irregularly punctate, and sparsely clothed with 

 short, recumbent, inconspicuous pubescence. 



