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exterior elytral declivity, and a few small spots along the sutural 

 margin at apical fourth. 



Abdomen beneath finely, densely punctate, with a few coarse 

 punctures intermixed, densely clothed with short, recumbent, yel- 

 lowish-white pubescence, with a few long, erect hairs intermixed; 

 last segment broadly rounded at apex. Prosternum very coarsely, 

 sj)arsely punctate; prosternal process narrow, arcuately declivous in 

 front and behind, and triangularly expanded behind the coxae. 

 Legs rather long, densely clothed with short, recumbent, whitish 

 pubescence, and with numerous long, erect hairs intermixed ; femora 

 strongly clavate toward the tips; tibiae subcylindrical, slightly 

 enlarged toward the tips. 



Length, 4.2 mm. ; with, 1.4 mm. 



Type locality. — San Cristobal, Dominican Republic. 



Type. — U. S. N. M. No. 43750. A unique example (sex not de- 

 termined) collected at Blanton mine, north of San Cristobal, Domin- 

 ican Republic, July 26, 1917 (No. 376), by Harold Morrison. 



Remarks. — Described from the type. 



This species is closely allied to tiiinutum Fisher, but it differs from 

 that species in having the legs and upper surface of the body clothed 

 with long, erect hairs, and in the different arrangement of the dark- 

 brown pubescent markings on the elytra. 



ECYRUS INSULARIS, new species 



Male. — Elongate, robust, strongly convex above, uniformly 

 brownish black, densely clothed with whitish and brownish pubes- 

 cense, which conceals the surface, giving it a mottled appearance, 

 the pronotum ornamented with two elongate, yellow, pubescent 

 spots, and each elytron with four tufts of erect hairs, and two yellow 

 pubescent vittae. 



Head in front longer than wide, slightly wider at bottom than at 

 top, flat, strongly, angularly depressed between the antennal tuber- 

 cles, which are narrowly separated and strongly elevated, densely 

 clothed with rather short, recumbent, whitish pubescence, which 

 conceals jthe surface, and with a longitudinal carina extending from 

 epistoma to occiput; eyes coarsely granulated, deeply emarginate, 

 and nearly contiguous on the top. Antenna considerably longer than 

 body, tips of the joints annulated with brown, surface rather densely 

 clothed with short, recumbent, whitish pubescence, except the first 

 joint, which is mottled with brown pubescence, and all the joints 

 densely ciliate beneath; first joint robust, short, reversed cone-shaped, 

 one-half as long as the fourth joint, which is distincjtly longer than 

 the third; fifth joint subequal in length to the first joint, the follow- 

 ing joints shorter, and gradually diminishing in length. 



