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antennal tubercles, antennal tubercles strongly developed and diver- 

 gent- punctation obscured, pubescence concealing surface, appressed, 

 grayish and dark brown; narrow longitudinal line extendmg from 

 epistoma to occiput; eyes smaU, moderately coarsely faceted, deeply 

 emar-inate, separated above by less than diameter of antennal scape; 

 antennae extendmg about four segments beyond body, first four seg- 

 ments densely mottled with dark brown and pale gray-brown pubes- 

 cence the following segments pale gray brown with apices and bases 

 dark 'brown, the dark brown banding increasing m width apically, 

 scape extending to basal one-thkd of pronotum, subequal m length to 

 fifth segment, fourth longer than fifth, thu'd longer than fourth, 

 eleventh segment slender, subequal to tenth. Pronotum more than 

 IK^ times as broad as long, base broader than apex; sides rounded to 

 basal margin, then strongly constricted, strongly inflated at sides to 

 produce a very broad, obtuse tubercle; surface narrowly, shaUowly 

 impressed at apex, more deeply and broadly at base, disc ahnost 

 flattened, without caUuses, punctures not visible; pubescence dense, 

 recimibent, pale gray brown to brown with a narrow dark-brown 

 median \^tta extending length of pronotum, two dark brown obhque 

 bands at sides of median band in front of middle and two short dark- 

 brown basal bands near lateral marghas, smaU dark spots sparse at 

 edges; prosternum very narrow, intercoxal process broad, expanded 

 apically, coxal cavities closed; mesosternal process very broad, epister- 

 num of metathorax narrow, narrowing posteriorly; scuteUum tri- 

 angular, narrowly rounded behind, densely pubescent. Eb^ra over 

 1}.^ tmies longer than broad, shghtly broader than pronotum; humeri 

 not strongly developed; surface uneven, with subsutural costae ex- 

 tendmg from base to before apex, humeral costae extending obliquely 

 to about basal one-thh-d, then runnmg parallel to subsutural ones, 

 lateral costae arcuately jommg others before apex with a vague short 

 costa between lateral and humeral ones; punctures at base fine, sep- 

 arated, becoming coarser and denser at midelytra; pubescence dense, 

 reciunbent, grayish to brown with two dark elongate spots at middle 

 of elytra just behind middle, an oblique, inverted V-shaped, short 

 brown che\Ton at apical third extendmg from suture and darker 

 irregular spots placed behmd and toward the lateral margms, small 

 blacl: spots sparsely interspersed; apices obliquely truncate Legs 

 with femora strongly clavate, densely clothed with mottled pale and 

 brown pubescence; tibiae with two broad dark bands at outside 

 surface. Abdomen uniformly, moderately densely pale pubescent; 

 apex of last sternite narrowly rounded. Length 7 mm. 



Holotype male (USNM 67327) from Little Bay, Peter Isl., B.V.I. , 

 Mar. 30, 1958 (J. F. G. Clarke). 



