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on the upper surface; with a few scattered punctures obscured by 

 very irregular ground sculpture, which is chiefly composed of minute 

 punctulae. Pronotuni as broad as long, slightly wider than head; 

 sides nearly parallel, angles rounded; without punctures but with 

 rather flat (uberculi throughout; without ground sculpture. Elytra 

 as long as wide, one-fourth wider than pronotum ; with fine and mod- 

 erately dense tuberculate sculpture but not with distinct tuberculi 

 separated by smooth surface as on pronotum. Abdomen very finely 

 and densely punctured and pubescent. Male^ seventh sternite at 

 middle of posterior margin with a comb of short black setae occupy- 

 ing about the middle half of the segment and directed strongly in- 

 wardly to give the appearance of a narrow striated band on the pos- 

 terior border of the segment, the setae diminishing in size at the 

 sides and bounded by a small group of hairs; eighth sternite with 

 a rather broadly rounded notch, and laterally with two thick brushes 

 of very long golden hairs. Female, sternites not modified. Length, 

 3 to 4 mm. 



Type locality. — Germany, duchy of Brunswick. Of rubricollis, 

 not recorded but presumably Germany; of hrunjiice'ps, "Taiti"; of 

 fastidiosa, Santiago, Chile ; of alutacea, Santa Clara County, Califor- 

 nia ; of quadricollis, Lake County, California. 



Types. — Presumably in the Zoologische Museum, Berlin. Of rub- 

 ricollis, same; of hj^i/nniceps, possibly in the Museum Royal d'His- 

 toire Naturelle de Belgique, Brussels ; of fastidiosa, same ; of alutacea, 

 holotype, male, U.S.N.M. No. 38207, in the Casey collection in the 

 United States National Museum; of qiuidricollis, holotype, male 

 U.S.N.M. No. 38208, in the Casey collection in the United States 

 National Museum. 



Records. — The following are the records known to me : 



Jamaica: (Cameron, 1931), Santa Cruz (Blackwelder station 421), Spanish Town 



(Blacliwekler station 377), May Pen (Blacliwelder station 425C). 

 Puerto Rico: Salinas ( Blacliwelder station CO), San Juan (Blackwelder station 



345), Lajas, Guanica, Ponce (Dozier, in U.S.N.M.). 

 St. John: (Erichson, 1840). 

 St. Kitts: (Blackwelder stations 302, 306). 

 Antigua: (Blackwelder stations 281A, 287). 

 Guadeloupe: Basse Terre (Blackwelder station 75), Grande Terre (Blackwelder 



station 86). 

 Dominica: (Blackwelder stations 237, 240, 252). 

 Barbados: (Blackwelder stations 194, 195). 



Grenada: (Blackwelder station 150; British Museum; U.S.N.M.). 

 South America: Brazil (Erichson, 1840), Chile (Fauvel, 18G8 ; Fairmaire, 1861, 



as fastidiosa) . 

 Central America: Guatemala. (Sharp, 1886). 



North America: California (Casey, 1886, as alutacea and quadricollis). 

 Europe: (Erichson, 1839a, 1840 ; Deville, 1907; Fowler, 1888). 



