ART. 22 NEW CEEAMBYCID BEETLES FISHER 69 



at base; surface coarsely alveolate-punctate, sparsely clothed with 

 long, erect, stiff, white hairs. Scutellum elongate-triangular, and 

 sparsely clothed with short, recumbent pubescence. 



Elytra two and one-third times as long as pronotum, and at base 

 feebly wider than pronotum at middle; humeri feebly developed; 

 sides nearly parallel, feebly, very broadly, arcuately constricted at 

 middle, the tips separately, broadly rounded or subtruncate; disk 

 feebly, broadly, transversely depressed at middle, and vaguely, 

 broadly elevated along sutural margins at basal fourth ; surface very 

 coarsely, deeply, densely punctate, clothed with a few long, erect, 

 stiff, white hairs, and each elytron ornamented behind the middle 

 with a narrow, transverse, eburneous fascia, extending from lateral 

 margin to near the sutural margin. 



Abdomen beneath very sparsely, feebly, coarselj^ punctate, and 

 clothed wdth a few long, erect, white hairs; last segment broadly 

 rounded at apex. Prosternum sparsely, coarsely punctate, feebly, 

 transversely rugose, and clothed with a few erect, white hairs; pro- 

 sternal process narrow, expanded behind the coxal cavities. Legs 

 sparsely clothed with long, erect, stiff, white hairs, and the anterior 

 pair slightly shorter than the middle and posterior pairs; tibiae 

 straight and subcylindrical. 



Length, 3.8 mm. ; width, 1 mm. 



Type locality. — Bayamon, Porto Rico. 



ry;?£'.— U.S.N.M. No. 43745. A unique female collected by R. C. 

 Shannon. 



Remarks. — Described from the type. 



TRICHROUS VITTATUS, new species 



Broadly elongate, subparallel, subopaque, and slightly flattened 

 above. Front of head yellow, antennae and posterior part of head 

 black, thorax red, with a distinct orange-yellow tinge, elytra black, 

 and each elytron ornamented with a moderately broad, yellowish 

 white, longitudinal vitta extending from middle of base to near the 

 apex, underside of body yellowish brown, with the tarsi, upper side 

 of tibiae, and spot near the tip of each femur, black. 



Head strongly transverse, and nearly flat in front, feebly concave 

 between the antennal tubercles, which are widely separated and 

 feebly elevated, the surface nearly glabrous, sparsely, coarsely, ir- 

 regularly punctate, the punctures denser on occiput; eyes large, 

 strongly convex, deeply emarginate, and separated from each other 

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

 long as the body, rather densely clothed with short, recumbent, black 

 pubescence, with a few long, erect hairs on the underside of the basal 

 joints; joints 3 to 7 unispinose at apices; first joint rather short, 



