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Length, 5.6 mm. ; width, 2.2 mm. 



Type locality. — Samana, Dominican Republic. 



Other locality. — Port au Prince, Haiti. 



Type and paratypes. — U.S.N.M. No. 43756. 



Remarks. — Described from three examples (sexes not determined) : 

 The type and one paratype, collected at the type locality, March 11, 

 1928, by G. S. Miller, jr.; and one paratype, collected at Port au 

 Prince, Haiti, in 1899, by R. J. Crew. 



This species is very closely allied to variabilis Fisher, described 

 from Cuba, but it differs from that species in being more brownish 

 in color, the pubescence on the elytra sparser and shorter, and the 

 brown pubescent markings more distinct. 



The pubescent markings on the three examples examined show a 

 slight variation ; on one of the paratypes the brown vitta is confined 

 to the sutural margins, whereas in the other paratype it is reduced 

 to a small spot on each elytron at apical third. 



LEIOPUS DOZIERI, new species 



Shorter and more strongly convex above than poeyi Fisher, uni- 

 formly dark reddish brown, densely clothed with brownish-yellow 

 pubescence, and mottled with whitish and blackish areas ; mandibles 

 black ; palpi dark brown, with the tips paler. 



Head quadrate in front of antennal tubercles, feebly narrower at 

 top than at bottom, flat, broadly concave between the antennal tuber- 

 cles, which are widely separated and slightly elevated, finely, densely 

 punctate, densely clothed with moderately long, recumbent, brownish- 

 white pubescence, which conceals the surface; eyes small, not very 

 coarsely granulated, deeply emarginate, and separated from each 

 other on the top by twice the width of the upper lobe. Antenna 

 nearly one and one-half times as long as the body, first five joints 

 mottled with whitish and brownish pubescence, the following joints 

 clothed with whitish pubescence, and annulated with brown at their 

 bases and apices; first joint slender, subcylindrical, gradually 

 expanded toward the apex, extending to basal third of pronotum, 

 and subequal in length to the fourth joint, which is slightly shorter 

 than the third. 



Pronotum nearly twice as wide as long, subequal in width at base 

 and apex, and widest just behind the middle; sides vaguely con- 

 stricted at apex, obliquely expanded from apex to behind middle, 

 then narrowly, strongly, abruptly constricted; disk rather even, 

 feebly, narrowly, transversely depressed along apex and base; sur- 

 face sparsely, irregularly punctate, densely clothed with short, re- 

 cumbent, whitish and brownish-yellow pubescence, which conceals 

 the surface, and ornamented with dark brown pubescent markings as 



