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mans. I have examined another specimen received from the British 

 Museum from Caj^enne, and labeled " slgnata Beaud.-Lafarge, cya- 

 nura Chevr." Avhich agrees very well with Chevrolat's description of 

 cyanura^ and which only differs from the specimen of fuhninata 

 from Brazil in a few minor details; being smaller (12.5 mm. long; 

 and 5 mm. wide), head not quite as densly rugose, median depression 

 on pronotum more obsolete anteriorly, and the elytra more sparsely 

 and finely punctate, otherwise they are the same, which verifies Ker- 

 remans conclusions as to the synonymy. 



So far, this species has only been recorded in the literature as oc- 

 curing in the West Indies, by Leng and Mutchler in their Prelimi- 

 nary List of the Coleoptera of the West Indies.^" This record was 

 probably copied from Linell's card catalogue of the West Indian 

 Coleoptera, in which he had recorded the original description of 

 cyanura Chevrolat, and erroneously cites the locality as Martinique 

 instead of Cayenne. The species probably does not occur in the 

 West Indies, its distribution being restricted to South America, but 

 the above description is included, so that in case its distribution 

 should extend into the Antilles, it can be easily identified. 



ACTENODES BELLULA Manncrheini 



Actenodes hellula, var. sohrina Maxnerheim, Dejean, Cat. Coleopt., 2 eel., 



1833, p. 80; 3 cd., 1836, p. 90. (No de-seription. ) 

 Actenodes hellula Mannerheim, Bull. Soe. Imp. Nat. Moscou, vol. 10, no. 



8, 1837, pp. 79-80. — Chevrolat, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, ser. 4, vol. 7. 



1867, p. 584 (separates p. 160). 



Form elongate, and moderately convex, attenuate in front, more 

 acuminate j^osteriorly, and narrower behind than in front, subo- 

 paque and glabrous; dark aeneous, with a feeble olivaceous or pur- 

 pureous tinge; scutellum aeneo-viridis; each elytron ornated with 

 four green spots (the two discal ones strongly embossed), which arc 

 narrowly marginal with aureo-cupreous, and sometimes the margin 

 behind scutellum narrowlj'^ cupreous; beneath aeneous, with an oliva- 

 ceous tinge, and more shining and purpureous than above; tarsi 

 cyaneous. 



Length, 10-14 mm.; width, 4-5.5 mm. 



This species is very closely allied to auronotata Castelnau and 

 Gory, but differs from it as folloAvs : Form more slender, elytra more 

 acuminate posteriorly, surface more finely punctured, and the spots 

 smaller, round, and the four discal ones distinctly embossed, and of a 

 clearer green color, narrowly margined aureo-cupreous; sides of 

 prosternum more coarsely punctate, and the punctures more con- 

 fluent. 



''Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 3.S, 1914, p. 430. 



