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sides arcuately expanded behind the humeral angles, then arcuately 

 attenuate to the tips (feebly sinuate at posterior coxae), apex rather 

 broadly rounded, lateral margins coarsely serrate posteriorly ; humeri 

 strongly developed; surface striato-punctate, the striae on disk 

 wider than the intervals at the basal region, feebly impressed except 

 on the flattened space near apex, where they are more deeply im- 

 pressed, the punctures large, deep, and closely placed in the striae, 

 the intervals smooth, with a single row of remotely placed fine punc- 

 tures, from which arises a very short erect hair, sutural intervals 

 broadly expanded at the basal half. Abdomen beneath coarsely and 

 densely punctate, the punctures smaller and less impressed on the 

 apical segments sparsely clothed with rather long recumbent cinere- 

 ous hairs, intervals smooth and shining; last segment subtruncate 

 at apex, without a subapical carina. Prosternum punctuation similar 

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

 which is broadly arcuately emarginate in front; prosternal process 

 parallel to behind the anterior coxal cavities, scarcely two times as 

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



Length, 8-8.5 mm.; width, 3.5-3.75 mm. 



Type locality. — Eleuthera, Bahamas. 



Type and faratype.—Q-At. No. 26803, U.S.N.M. 



Described from two males collected by H. F. Wickham on the 

 island of Eleuthera, one of the Bahamas, between July 9 and 15, 

 and is the species recorded by him in the Canadian Entomologist as 

 cnhaecola Jacquelin Duval. 



This is one of the subtriangular species, not as broadly triangular 

 as cfrmnta and pulcherrima, hut more so than gundlachi P'isher, and 

 can be separated from the other species of the genus found in the 

 West Indies by the characters given in the key. 



ACMAEODERA GUNDLACHI, new species 



Male. Eather broadly elongate, subcylindrical, broadly rounded 



in front, more strongly attenuate posteriorly, and feebly flattened 

 above, nearly straight below and broadly arcuate above when viewed 

 in profile, aeneous, with a strong purplish or greenish tinge on the 

 pronotum and elytra, the former with an oblong yellow spot on each 

 side, which does not attain the base nor apex; each elytron ornated 

 with small irregular yellow spots as follows : A rather large irregu- 

 lar spot behind the humerus, extending along the inner margin, but 

 more or less broken along the lateral margin, a small round spot 

 behind the humerus, situated closer to the suture than the lateral 

 margin, a rather wide transverse arcuate fascia at middle, extend- 

 ing from the lateral margin to middle of disk, then turning obliquely 

 forward for a short distance, a narrow transverse fascia at apical 

 third, extending nearly to the suture, a narrow oblique one at apical 



