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obliquely attenuate to the apical third, then more arcuately attenuate 

 to the tips, which are acute, the lateral margins coarsely serrate 

 posteriorly ; humeri strongly developed ; surface striato-punctate, the 

 striae on disk feebly impressed on basal region, about as wide as the 

 intervals, but becoming more deeply impressed and distinctly nar- 

 rower than the intervals toward the apex, the punctures very coarse 

 and nearly confluent anteriorly ; intervals smooth and shining, with 

 a few fine punctures, from which arises a short recumbent hair. 

 Abdomen beneath densely, rather coarsely and regularly punctate, 

 and sparsely clothed with short recumbent cinereous hairs, intervals 

 smooth and shining: last ventral segment broadly rounded at apex, 

 and without a subapical carina. Prosternum punctured similar to 

 that of the abdomen; anterior margin with a distinct median lobe, 

 which is deeply arcuately emarginate in front; prosternal process 

 parallel to behind the anterior coxal cavities, at least two times as 

 wide as the cavity, and broadly rounded at the apex. 



Length, 9-12 mm.; widtli, 4.5-5.5 mm. 



This species was described bj' Jacquelin Duval (1857) from Cuba. 

 Chevrolat (1867) records it from the central and eastern part of the 

 same island, from material in the collections of Gundlach, Poey, and 

 Chevrolat. Gundlach (1891) records collecting adults on the flowers 

 of a shrub at Caimanera and also at the Bay of Guantanamo, Cuba. 

 Fall (1899) records three specimens of this species in the collection 

 of the United States National Museum from Metacumbe Key, 

 Florida, based on identifications made by Linell. These specimens 

 are not the species described by Jacquelin Duval as pulcherrhna^ but 

 are con.fusa Fisher. Kerremans (1906) records it from Cuba, in the 

 collection of the Brussels Museum. 



Specimens have been examined from the following Cuban locali- 

 ties. Coll. U. S. Nat, Mus. : One specimen, Santiago (J. M. Espin). 

 Coll. Amer, Mus. Nat. Hist.: One specimen, Rio Seco, San Carlos 

 Estate, Guantanamo (Chas. T. Ramsden). Coll. British Mus.: One 

 specimen, Cuba (Coll. Chevrolat) ; and another one without a lo- 

 cality, and simply labeled "' Saunders 74-18." Coll. Acad. Nat. Sci. 

 Phila. : Two specimens, Cuba (Poey Coll. No. 931). There are also 

 two specimens labeled No. 808 in the Gundlach Museum in Habana, 

 which have not been examined. 



There has been considerable confusion in regard to the identifica- 

 tion of this species and cuhaecola, but the two species are distinctly 

 different, 'pulcherriina is a very broad, triangular species, with the 

 pronotum widest at base, while cuhaecola is narrow, elongate, and 

 subcylindrical, the pronotum widest at middle or basal third, the 

 sutural mtervals broadly expanded on basal half, and the color mark- 

 ings on the elytra are differently arranged. 



