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Dejean (1833) lists hellula from Cuba and hellula^ var. sobrina 

 Mannerheim, from Santo Dominj^o, without <i:iving any descriptions. 

 Actenodes hellula, var. sohr'ma as used by Dejean is a manuscript 

 name, but Mannerheim (1837) under the name of hellula gives a 

 description of the A. hellula, var. sohrina Mannerheim listed by 

 Dejean in his Catalogue from the island of Santo Domingo, and in 

 which he writes, " Not possessing the real Actenodes hellula Dejean, 

 I have been obliged to describe the variety." Since no description 

 had been published of hellula, this name must be applied to the 

 species described by Mannerheim from Santo Domingo, and sohrina 

 Mannerheim will have to be placed as a synonym of that species. 

 The specimen in the Dejean Collection under hellula Dejean from 

 Cuba, will be the true auronotata Castelnau and Gory. 



Chevrolat (1867) records this species from Santo Domingo in the 

 collection of (Dejean) Mnizech, and considers it distinct from 

 auronotata. 



The species seems to be confined to Santo Domingo, and I have 

 examined specimens from the following localities: Coll. British 

 Mus. : Haiti, from the Chevrolat Collection. Coll. Mus. Comp. 

 Zool. : Petionville and Manneville, Haiti (W. M. Mann). Coll. U. 

 S. Nat. Mus. : Port-au-Prince, Haiti (R. J. Crew) received from H. 

 W. Wickham. 



ACTENODES AURONOTATA (Castelnau and Gory) 



Actenodes bellula Dejean, Cat. Coleopt., 2 ed., 1833, p. 80; 3 ed., 1836, 



p. 90. (No description.) 

 Chrysobothris auronotata Castelnau and Gory, Mon. Bupr., vol. 2, 1836, 



p. 20, pi. 4, fig. 30; addenda, p. 6. — Jacquelin Duval, in Ramon de 



la Sagra's Hist. Phys. Polit. et Nat. de I'lle de Cuba, Anim. Artie, 



1857, (French edition) p. 64, pi. 7, fig. S; (Spanish edition), vol. 7, 



1857, p. 29 ; vol. 8, pi. 7, fig. 8. 

 Actenodes auronotata Chevrolat, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, ser. 4, vol. 7, 



1867, p. 584, (separates p. 160). — Gundlach, Contribucion h la En- 



tom. Cuba, vol. 3, pt. 5, 1891, p. 168, No. 201. 

 Actenodes bella LeConte, Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc, vol. 11, 1859, pp. 



240-241. 

 Buprestis auriyuttata Sturm, Catal. Insecten Sammlung, 1826, p. 104. 

 Chrysobothris aurigvttata Sturm, Catal. Kafer Sammlung, 1843, p. 61. 



Form broadly elongate and moderately convex, attenuate in front, 

 more acuminate posteriorly, and narrower behind than in front, sub- 

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

 pureous tinge; scutellum aureo-viridis ; elytra ornated with aureo- 

 viridis markings, sometimes the markings strongly cupreous, but 

 not embossed; beneath aeneous, with an olivaceous tinge, and more 

 shining and purpureous than above; tarsi cyaneous. 



Head feebly convex, front nearly flat, triangular, with a feeble 

 longitudinal groove extending from near the epistoma to the vertex, 



