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fourth joint ; first joint elongate, slightly arcuate and longer than the 

 second and third joints united, the surface shining and feebly granu- 

 lose; second and third joints moniliform, surface similar to the first; 

 fourth to tenth strongly triangular, wider than long, with the surface 

 ■very densely granulose and subopaque ; the eleventh oblong, slightly 

 angulated on outer margin, with the surface similar to the preceding- 

 joint. (In the type the right antenna is deformed, and the fourth 

 and fifth joints are consolidated.) Pronotum strongly transverse 

 and moderately convex, one and four-fifths times as wide as long, 

 narrower in front than at base, widest at basal third, with an obso- 

 lete depression in front of the scutellum, and a broad shallow one on 

 ■each side along the base a short distance from the posterior angles, 

 extending forward along the interior margin of the j^ellow spot but 

 becoming obsolete at its anterior margin, causing the j-ellow spot to 

 be arcuately elevated, in this depression close to the base there is 

 also a round deep pit; sides arcuately rounded to basal third, then 

 obliquely arcuately narrowed to the anterior margin, w^hich is feebly 

 arcuately emarginate, with a broadly rounded lobe at the middle; 

 base transversely truncate; side margins narrow, and visible from 

 above except near the apical angles; surface densely and very 

 coarsely punctate similar to that of the head. Elytra moderately 

 convex and slightly flattened on disk, as wide at base as pronotum; 

 sides nearly parallel from base to just behind the middle, then arcu- 

 ately attenuate to the tips, which are rather narrowly, conjointly 

 rounded, the lateral margins strongly serrate posteriorly; humeri 

 strongly developed ; striae impressed, about as wide as the intervals on 

 the disk at base, but becoming narrower toward apex, the punctures 

 coarse, deep, oblong and separated from each other in the striae by 

 about one-half their length; intervals not elevated, nearly smooth, 

 with a single series of distant minute punctures, from which arises 

 a rather long erect cinereous hair. Abdomen beneath rather densely, 

 but not coarsely punctate, the punctures shallow, widely separated, 

 and open on the one side, and from which arises a long semierect 

 cinereous hair; intervals obsoletely granulose; last ventral segment 

 rather broadly rounded at apex, and without a subapical carina. 

 Prosternum more coarsely and deeply punctured than abdomen ; an- 

 terior margin with an obsolete rectangular lobe at middle, which is 

 nearly truncate in front ; prosternal process parallel to behind coxae 

 and about two times as wide as the coxal cavity. 



Length, 6.5 mm. ; width, 2.25 mm. 



Type locality. — Cayamas, Cuba. 



Other localities.— -CmnvAguey, Cuba. 



Type.— Cat. No. 26802, U.S.N.M. 



Paratype. — Collection of S. C. Bruner. 

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