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Nesanoplium, new genus 



Body small, parallel-sided, clothed with short subdepressed, recurved 

 hairs intermixed with longer, erect setae. Head flat between antennae, 

 surface coarsely alveolate-punctate, median line vague; palpi subequal, 

 apical segments securiform; eyes coarsely faceted, deeply emargmate; 

 antennae about as long as body in males, shorter in females, segments 

 carinate, three to seven spined at apex internaUy, segments six to nine 

 spined externaUy, third segment distinctly longest, fourth shorter than 

 fifth, fifth to ninth subequal, tenth shorter than eleventh, eleventh 

 subequal to ninth. Pronotmn rounded at sides; disc rather coarsely 

 alveolate-punctate, without caUuses; anterior coxal cavities open 

 behind, prosternal process arcuately dechvous behind, shghtly ex- 

 panded at apex; intermediate coxal cavities closed to epimeron; 

 episternum of metathorax slender, narrowing slightly from base to 

 apex. Elytra subparallel; surface coarsely, closely punctate, sparsely 

 at apex, costae vague; pubescence short, recurved, subdepressed with 

 long erect hau-s interspersed; apices spined at external angle, shghtly 

 denlate at sutm-e. Legs with femora clavate, mthout apical spines; 



tibiae carinate. 



Type species: Cyrtomerus puberulus Fleutiaux and Salle. 



This genus resembles Elaphidionopsis Linsley but differs by the 

 spined antennal segments, spined elytral apices, and clavate femora. 

 The armed antennae and elytra and deeply emarginate eyes separate 

 it from Curtomerus, where the type species C. puberulus has previously 

 been placed. 



Nesanoplium puberulum (Fleutiaux and Sall6), new combination 



Cyrtomerus puherulus Fleutiaux and Salle, 1889, p. 464, pi. 8, fig. 17. 

 Cylindera (?) puberula.—Gahsin, 1895, p. 108. 

 Cylindera puberula. — Aurivillius, 1912, p. 120. 

 One cT, 2 99, Sopers Hole, Tortola, B.V.I. , Apr. 5, 1958. 



Tribe Callidiopini 



Merostenus attenuatus (Chevrolat) 



Lampromerus (?) attenuatus Chevrolat, 1862, p. 263. 

 Merostenus attenuatus. — Gahan, 1895, p. 109. 



One cf , 1 9, Prickly Pear IsL, Vixen Point, Vu-gin Gorda, B.V.I., 

 Apr. 14, 1956, Apr. 6, 1958; 6 d^cf. Little Harbor, Jost Van Dyke, 

 B.V.I., Apr. 1, 1958; 2 cf cT, Sopers Hole, Tortola, B.V.I., Apr. 5, 1958, 



Merostenus siniilis Fisher 



Merostenus similis Fisher, 1932, p. 53. 



One cf, English Harbor, Antigua, B.W.I., Apr. 2, 1956; 1 cf, 

 Oyster Pond, Barbuda, B.W.I; Apr. 6, 1956. 



