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in front, the surface densely, coarsely punctate, and transversely 

 rugose on the anterior part; prosternal process flat, very strongly 

 expanded behind the coxal cavities, the sides long, very acute, and 

 separating the anterior and middle coxal cavities, the median tooth 

 at apex long and acute. 



Length, 10-15 mm. ; width, 4.5-6.5 mm. 



This species was described by Castelnau and Gory (1836) from 

 Cuba, and in figuring the species used the name auronoto, but this 

 was changed to auronotata in their addenda (p. 6). LeConte (1859) 

 described the same species from a single specimen from Libertj'^ 

 County, Georgia, United States, under the name of helJa. Kerre- 

 mans ^^ has erroneously placed this species as a synonym of hellula 

 Mannerheim. 



Recorded from Cuba by Jacquelin Duval as the " Golden-marked 

 Chrysobothris." Gundlach (1891) records it as found throughout 

 the island of Cuba. Chevrolat (1867) says that it found over the en- 

 tire island and in the collections of Gundlach, Poe3% and Chevrolat. 

 I have examined specimens from the following localities. Coll. 

 Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. : Rio Seco, San Carlos Estate, Guantanamo, 

 Cuba, June 20, 1912; male and female, Guantanamo, Cuba (Chas. 

 T. Ramsden). Coll. Carnegie Mus.: Nueva Gerona, Isle of Pines, 

 July 23, 1912. Coll. British Mus. : Cuba. Coll. U. S. Nat. Mus. : 

 Trinidad, Cuba, April-May, 1912 (Joe Merrill) : Savannah, Georgia; 

 Lake Worth, Florida, June 4; and Biscayne, Florida May 27 (Hub- 

 bard and Schwarz) ; Marathon, Florida, Mar. 8, 1919 (Schwarz). 

 Coll. S. C. Bruner: One specimen, Santiago de las Vegas, Cuba, 

 May 20, 1923 (J. Acuna). Coll. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad.: One 

 specimen, Cuba (Poey Coll. No. 340). This species is also repre- 

 sented in the Gundlach Museum in Habana by a single example 

 labeled No. 201, which was not available for study. 



ACTENODES AURONOTATA. var. JAMAICENSIS, new variety 



Form broadly elongate and moderately convex, attenuate in front, 

 more acuminate posteriorly, and narrower behind than in front, 

 moderately shining and glabrous; head reddish-cupreous, with the 

 reliefs olivaceous-green; pronotum reddish-cupreous, and somewhat 

 olivaceous-green on disk; scutellum green; elytra reddish-cupreous, 

 with the base, suture, posterior half of lateral margin, narrowly 

 margined with green, and each elytron ornated with bright green 

 spots as follows: A large transverse spot at base; two large nearly 

 confluent spots placed transversely just in front of middle, the outer 

 one smaller, more oblong, and placed near the lateral margin, the 

 other one large, round, and placed on the disk ; and an oblong fascia 



'* Wytsman's Gen. Insectorum. fasc. 12, pt. 3, 1903, p. 194. 



