428 BULLETIX 182, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



Description. — Piceocastaneoiis, elytra darker, two apical abdominal 

 segments testaceous. Head quadrate, sides arcuate but not narrowed, 

 basal angles rounded but also marked by a ridge; eyes at nearly twice 

 their length from base; very feebly impressed in front, punctures 

 moderately large, impressed, scattered sparsely at sides; with fine 

 strigulose ground sculpture. Pronotum a very little longer than wide, 

 widest at anterior fifth, very strongly narrowed to rounded basal 

 angles; discal series of five punctures, and with about six lateral punc- 

 tures; ground sculpture as on head. Elytra with moderate punctures 

 generally separated by more than their diameter by flat intervals; 

 surface very finely and indistinctly coriaceous. Abdomen with very 

 sparse punctures excavated behind ; with very indistinct ground sculp- 

 ture. MaJe^ unknown. Femule, eighth sternite rounded. Length, 

 91/2 mm. 



Type locality. — Cuba. Of chevrolati., Habana, Cuba. 



Types. — Presumably in the Zoologische Museum. Berlin. Of 

 chevrolati., presumably in the collection of Blanche Rancin, Caen, 

 France. 



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



Cuba: (Erichson, 1840; DnVal, 1857; Fauvel, 1863; Leng and Mutchler, 1914; 



British Museum), Habana (Fauvti, 1863, as rhcrrolati), Cayamas 



( Schwa rz, in U.S.N.M.). 

 Jamaica: (Bonihauer and Schubert, 1914; Leng and Mutchler, 1914; Gowdey, 



1926: British Mnsoum). 

 [Hispaniola: ( Bernhauor and Schubert, 1914.)] 

 [South America: Colombia (Bernhauer and Schubert, 1914).] 



Specimens examined. — I have seen six examples in the British 

 Museum and one in the United States National Museum. 



Remarks. — This species is distinguished by its coloration, the 

 feeble impressions of the head, and the very s])arse punctures of the 

 abdomen. Its most striking feature, however, is the shape of the 

 pronotum, which is so strongly narrowed posteriorly. 



The specimen before me was taken "on ceiba" (silk-cotton tree). 



The record of South America by Bernhauer and Schubert is prob- 

 ably an error, since they do not give the type locality. 



9. BELONUCHUS BUGNIONI Fauvel 



Belonuchus buffnioni Faxh'kl, 1901, p. 80, pi. 2, fig. 13. — Bkrnuatjer and 



Schubert, 1914, p. 369. — Lkng and MutchlkRs 1914, p. 406. 

 Belonuchus eximlus Bkunhatjkii, 1917, p. 105. — Schkeupei.tz, 1933, p. 1378. 



Description. — Black, elytra bluish, last two abdominal segments 

 and margin of tliird rufote.^taceous. Head (|niulrato, coarsely and 

 sparsely punctured at sides; in front with a median longitudinal im- 

 pression. Pronotum one-third longer than wide, posteriorly sinuately 

 narrowed; dorsal series of five punctures, with a few lateral punc- 



