498 BULLETIN 182, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



the punctures not at all serial. Ahdomeri rather finely tuberculate; 

 with confused ground sculpture. Length, 3 to 31/2 ii^ii^- 



Type locality. — Cuba, Cayamas, 15 miles west-northwest of Cien- 

 fuegos, province of Santa Clara. 



Types. — Holotype and one paratype, U.S.N.M. No. 52439, collected 

 by E. A. Schwarz. 



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



Cuba: Cayamas (Schwarz, in U.S.N.M.). 



Specimens examined. — I have seen only the two types in the 

 United States National Museum. 



Remarks. — This species is distinguished by the comparatively dense 

 punctures of the head. It differs from ramhousehi principally in 

 not having the dark markings on the head and elytra. 



I find no record of its habits. 



3. LITHOCHARODES STRIGULATA, new species 



Description. — Rufopiceous to pale piceocastaneous. last segment of 

 abdomen testaceous. Head nearly one-half longer than vride, feebly 

 expanded behind eyes, angles and base completely rounded ; antennal 

 grooves very feeble, straight and parallel; without ocular grooves; 

 with moderately small and indistinctly umbilicate punctures usually 

 separated by one to three times their diameter ; with feeble reticulate 

 ground sculpture. Pronotum three-sevenths longer than wide, widest 

 at anterior two-fifths, rounded in front, sides distinctly converging 

 to broadly rounded base ; smooth median space not outlined by rows 

 of punctures distinct from those at sides, these a little coarser than 

 on head and usually separated by about their diameter ; with strigulose 

 ground sculpture. Elytra small, appressed, not extending past meta- 

 thorax; with ordinary punctures not as coarse as on head separated 

 by about twice their diameter; surface irregularly coriaceous. Abdo- 

 men with fine sparse submuricate punctures; with traces of transverse 

 strigulose ground sculpture. Length, 41/2 to 5i/> mm. 



Type locality. — Dominican Eepublic, Loma Rucilla and the moun- 

 tains to the north; elevation 5,000 to 8,000 feet. 



Types. — Holotype and three paratypes in tlie INIusemu of Com- 

 parative Zoology; three paratypes in the United States National 

 Museum (No. 52.'';24) ; collected in June 1938 by Dr. P. J. Darlington. 

 (Paratypes partly from Loma de la Pena and Valle Nuevo.) 



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



Hispaniola: Haiti, La Visits (Darlington, in M.C.Z.) ; Dominican Republic, 

 Loma Rucilla (Darlington, in M.C.Z. and U.S.N.M.), Loma de la Pofia 

 (Darlington, in M.C.Z.), Valle Nuevo (Darlington, in M.C.Z. and U.S.N.M.). 



/Specimens examined. — I have seen only the seven types and the two 

 s})ecimens mentioned below. 



