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ACMAEODERA MARGINENOTATA Cheviolat 



Acinaeodcrd /narglncnotata Ciievkolat, Ann. Soc. Eut. France, ser. 4, vol. 7, 

 1867, pp. 583-584 (separate pp. 150-100).— Gtjnulach, Contribucion 

 {"l la Entora. Cuba, vol. 3, pt. 5, 1801, p. 167, no. 809.— Kerremans, Mon. 

 Bupr., vol. 2, 1906, pp. 56-57. 



Acmacodcra cubaecola Fall, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, vol. 7, 1899, p. 35. (Not 

 cubaccola .Tacquelin Duval.) 



Broadly eloriirate. feebly trian<!:iilar. broadly rounded in front, 

 more attenuate posteriorly, and feeblj'' flattened above (nearly 

 straight below and broadly arcuate above when viewed in profile) ; 

 head and pronotum black, with a slight purplish tinge, the latter 

 with a large triangular yellow spot, situated on each side at the pos- 

 terior angles ; elytra orange-yellow, the suture, apex, and four trans- 

 verse spots along the lateral margin black, the black color along 

 suture is also expanded into numerous irregular fasciae, which some- 

 times extend to the middle of the elytron; beneath black, with a 

 strong aeneo-viridis reflection, and ornated with a large round 

 median yellow spot at base of first abdominal segment. 



Head flat, with a short elevated carina on the ociput; surface 

 coarsely and densely punctate, the punctures rather shallow, nearly 

 confluent, and from the center of each arises a rather long semi- 

 erect cinereous hair, the intervals narrow and feebly shining; epis- 

 toma strongly elevated, very short, and narrow on the top, the 

 anterior m.argin broadly and A'^ery deeply arcuately emarginate in 

 front, and the lobes on each side of the emargination subtruncate 

 and strongly compressed; antennae serrate from the fifth joint. 

 Pronotum strongly transverse and moderately convex. tAvice as 

 wide as long, distinctly narrower in front than behind, widest just 

 behind the middle, with three large deep basal depressions, one 

 median, and one on each side at the inner margin of the yellow spot, 

 there is also a narrow transverse depression along the anterior 

 margin, more or less interrupted at the middle; sides strongly ob- 

 liquely expanded to the middle, then strongly arcuately rounded 

 to the posterior angles, which are rectangular, the margins feebly 

 flattened posteriorly and visible from above; anterior margin arcu- 

 ately emarginate, Avitli a strongly angulated median lobe; base 

 transversely truncate; surface densely, coarsely and ver}'^ deeply 

 punctate, the punctures confluent and irregular in shape, with their 

 sides acute on the top and forming a network of polygonal areas, 

 bottom of punctures obsoletely granulose, and from which arises 

 a short, semi-erect black hair. Elytra convex, feebl}^ flattened on 

 top, and sharply deflexed on the sides, distinctl}' narrower than the 

 pronotum at middle, the humeral angles when viewed laterally are 

 bent downward into a narrow lobe; sides when viewed from above 

 are feebly obliquely narrowed to the apical third, then arcuately 



