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deeply impressed on the basal segments, but becoming more shallow 

 toward the apex, and rather densely clothed with long recumbent 

 cinereous hairs, intervals smooth and shining; last segment broadly 

 rounded or subtruncate at apex, without a subapical carina. Pros- 

 ternum coarsely, densely punctate, and sparsely clothed with long 

 recumbent hairs; anterior margin with a very feeble median lobe, 

 which is truncate in front ; prosternal process parallel to behind the 

 anterior coxal cavities, and broadly rounded at the apex. 



Length, 8.5-10 mm. ; width, 2.75-3.5 mm. 



Described by Jacquelin Duval (1857) from Cuba. Chevrolat 

 (1867) records it from the eastern part of the same island from ma- 

 terial in the collections of Gundlach, Poey, and Chevrolat. Gund- 

 lach (1891) records collecting it on a flowering shrub at Caimanera, 

 Cuba, during July. Kerremans (1906) has placed cubaecola listed 

 by Fall ^^ from Key Largo, Florida, and 'pulcherrima by the same 

 author^* from Metacumbe Key, Florida as synonyms of cubaecola^ 

 but the one listed by Fall as cubaecola is the species described by 

 Chevrolat as iiiarginenotata. 



I have been able to examine two specimens of this species from the 

 collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences, labeled Cuba (Poey 

 Coll. No. 348), which agree with the original description, and from 

 which the above description was made. (One of these specimens 

 has been donated to the U. S. Nat. Mus. Coll.). There are also two 

 examples of this species labeled No. 1419 in the Gundlach Museum in 

 Habana, and a single example in the British Museum, which have 

 not been examined by the writer. 



The species is closely related to confusa Fisher, but is more par- 

 allel and subcylindrical, more convex above, pronotum not sulcate at 

 base, and the markings on the elytra are more irregular and not ar- 

 ranged in two longitudinal rows of distinct round spots. 



ACMAEODERA CONFUSA, new name 



There seems to have been considerable confusion in the identifica- 

 tion of this species by Kerremans, since 'pulcherrima and cubaecola 

 listed by Fall are two radically different species, but neither one 

 is the species described by Jacquelin Duval as cubaecola. Kerre- 

 mans probably did not see the true cubaecola from the Antilles, as 

 he redescribed and figures specimens from the Fenyes collection from 

 Key Largo, Florida, which are identical with the specimens listed by 

 Fall as pulcherrima from Metacumbe Key, Florida. For the one 

 described and figured by Kerremans as ciibaecola and listed by Fall 

 as pulchernma^ I therefore propose the new name confusa. 



>8Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, vol. 7, 1899, p. 35. 

 '* Idem, p. 16. 



