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along anterior margin, with three small, obsolete foveae along base, 

 one median and one on each side near posterior angle; surface 

 coarsely, deeply, rather densely punctate, sparsely clothed with 

 short, erect, inconspicuous hairs. 



Elytra slightly flattened on disk, at base slightly narrower than 

 pronotum at basal third; sides gradually converging from bases to 

 tips, which are conjointly broadly rounded ; lateral margins coarsely 

 serrate posteriorly. Surface striately punctate, striae rather deeply 

 impressed, the punctures in the striae coarse and separated from 

 one another on the basal half by about their own widths, but becom- 

 ing finer and more distant toward apices; interstrial spaces on sutural 

 regions slightly convex, and about as wide as the strial punctures, 

 wider and more strongly convex toward the sides, sparsely, finely, 

 regularly punctate, with a short, fine, erect, white hair arising from 

 each puncture. 



Abdomen beneath coarsely, shallowly, rather sparsely punctate, 

 sparsely clothed with moderately long, semierect, white hairs; inter- 

 vals smooth; last visible sternite broadly rounded at apex, without 

 a subapical carina. Prosterniun coarsely, deeply, rather densely 

 punctate at middle, coarsely ocellate-punctate at sides, sparsely 

 clothed with long, semierect, white hairs; anterior margin slightly 

 sinuate. 



Length 6.5 mm., width 2.25 mm. 



Type locality. — Hog Island, Grenada, British "West Indies. 



Type.—\3. S. N. M. No. 58796. 



Described from a single specimen collected August 1, 1935, by S. T. 

 Danforth. 



This species belongs to Horn's Sinuatae group. It is allied to 

 Acmaeodera subcylindrica Fisher, but it differs from that species in 

 having the pronotum shorter, more strongly expanded at the basal 

 third, transversely depressed along the anterior margin, and with 

 a large triangular yellow spot on each side covering the basal half, 

 the head with a round yellow spot on the vertex, and each elytron 

 ornamented with three transverse and one elongate yellow spots along 

 the lateral margin. The species is named for S. T. Danforth, the 

 collector. 



Genus EUPLECTALECIA Obenberger 



EUPLECTALECIA KNABI. new species 



Elongate, attenuate anteriorly, acuminate posteriorly, strongly shin- 

 ing, bright green, more or less distinctly reddish, cupreous and brown- 

 ish on pronotum and elytra, underside of tarsi yellowish, antenna 

 blackish purple, except first three segments, which are green, and each 

 elytron ornamented with a longitudinal row of three small, more or 

 less distinct, purplish-black spots. 



