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second transverse, and placed behind the middle, and the third small 

 and subapical. Body beneath punctate ; legs brunneo-purpureous, 

 and the tarsi green. Length, 16 mm.; width, 5 mm. The arrange- 

 ment and form of the posterior part of the elytra, terminating into a 

 point, gives this species the appearance of a Dicerca. Guadeloupe 

 (Lherminier, by Chevrolat). 



Genus ACTENODES Lacordaire 



Actenodcs Dejean, Cat. Coleopt., 2 ed., 1833, p. 80; 3 ed., 1836, p. 90.— 

 Lacokdaire, Gen. Col., vol. 4, 1857, pp. 72-73. — Kekremans, Wytsman's 

 Gen. Insectorum, fasc. 12, pt. 3, 1903, pp. 193-195. 



Head vertical and much wider in front than on vertex; front flat- 

 tened and narrowed by the insertion of the antennae; epistoma short 

 and wide, and more or less: emarginate or truncate in front ; antenna! 

 cavities large, round, and situated at a considerable distance from 

 the eyes. Antennae moderately long, variable, and dentate from the 

 fourth joint, the serrate joints usually armed with poriferous foveae 

 on the lower anterior margin of the joints (some of the species also 

 have obsolete foveae on the upper side). Eyes very large, ellipti- 

 cal, inner margin very oblique and much closer to each other on 

 the vertex than on the front. Pronotum much wider than long, and 

 not closely applied to the elytra at the posterior angles; anterior 

 margin arcuately emarginate; sides sinuate; base with a distinct 

 median lobe. Scutellum small and triangular. Elytra variable, 

 shagreened or finely punctured, with or without costae, rarely with 

 the sides serrate near apex, lobed at base, and strongly attenuate 

 posteriorly. Sternal cavity formed by the mesosternum and meta- 

 sternum; mesosternum divided, the lateral branches elongate and 

 somewhat triangular; metasternum feebly emarginate or truncate 

 in front. Prosternum feebly convex in front, with the anterior 

 margin more or less declivous ; prosternal process flat, strongly con- 

 stricted by the coxal cavities, behind which it is: abruptly and 

 arcuately expanded on each side into a sharp tooth, and with a large 

 acute tooth at the apex, which fits into the sternal cavity. Posterior 

 coxae strongly dilated internally; anterior margin nearly straight; 

 posterior margin oblique. Legs rather robust; anterior and middle 

 femora more or less swollen, the former nearly always dentate on 

 the inner margin; tibiae normal, the anterior pair frequently arcuate 

 in the males; tarsi rather short, the third joint deeply emarginate 

 and divided into two long divergent spines, which extend beyond the 

 fourth joint; tarsal claws simple or feebly expanded at base. Body 

 oblong, rather broad, and more acuminate behind than in front. 



The name Actenodes was first used by Dejean (1833) in the sec- 

 ond edition of his Catalogue des Coleopteres, and in which he in- 

 cluded hellula Mannerheim from Santo Domingo, 7ioMUs Fabricius 

 from Cayenne, and eight species of which no descriptions had been 



