PUERTO RICAN MORDELLISTENA RAY 399 



Length: 2.25 mm; including anal style, 3.25 mm. Elongate, sub- 

 parallel, derm flavous, except for the following piceous areas: Margins 

 and suture of elytra and a premedian, transverse fascia, which is 

 broadest near side margins. Surface densely covered with fine, 

 recumbent, flavous pubescence, except on anal style, where color is 

 fuscous. 



Antennae 0.8 mm long, reacliing posterior coxae; segments 3 and 

 4 equal; 5-10 each one-half longer and considerably broader than 4; 

 11 rounded, one-half longer than 10. Apical segment of maxillary 

 palpi enlarged, form of a scalene triangle, sides straight, corners 

 rounded. Pro thorax slightly broader than long (0.6 by 0.55 mm), 

 convex, sides rounded, basal angles obtuse, midbasal lobe short, 

 subtruncate. Scutellum small, triangular. Elytra almost three 

 times as long as broad (1.7 by 0.6 mm), sides subparallel, apices 

 individually rounded. Posterior tibiae with two oblique ridges, the 

 anterior extending entirely across outer face; basitarsi with three 

 oblique ridges, second segment with two, all extending halfway across 

 outer surface. Anal style twice as long as apical ventral segment, 

 attenuate to apex. 



Type locality. — Aibonito, Puerto Rico. 



TVpg.— Male, U.S.N.M. no. 51606. 



Remarks. — The type was taken at Aibonito on June 8, 1934; the 

 allotype was taken at Ponce on September 11, 1933. Both were 

 collected on Eugenia sp. by R. G. Oakley. 



LITERATURE CITED 



Fabricius, Johann Christian. 



1801. Systema eleutheratorum secundum ordines, genera, species, etc., vol. 2, 

 687 pp. 

 LeConte, John Lawrence. 



1862. Synopsis of the Mordellidae of the United States. Proc. Acad. Nat. 

 Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 14, pp. 43-51. 

 MIklin, Fredrik Wilhelm. 



1875. Neue Mordelliden. Acta Soc. Sci. Fennicae, vol. 10, pp. 561-595. 

 Quedenfeldt, Gustav. 



1886. Neue und seltnere Kafer von Portorico. Berliner Ent. Zeitschr., vol. 

 30, pp. 119-128, 1 fig. 

 Smith, John Bernard. 



1882. A synopsis of the Mordellidae of the United States. Trans. Amer. 

 Ent. Soc, vol. 10, pp. 73-100, 3 pis. 



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