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intervals smooth and nearly glabrous; eyes feebly converging above, 

 feebly convex, oblong, and about two times as long as wide ; epistoma 

 broadly but not deeply arcuately emarginate in front. Pronotum 

 two times as wide as long, widest at basal fourth, distinctly narrower 

 in front than behind; sides regularly arcuately expanded on basal 

 half, then obliquely attenuate to apical angles; posterior angles 

 nearly rectangular; anterior margin feebly arcuately emarginate, 

 with a broadly rounded median lobe ; base rather strongly bisinuate ; 

 disk with a broad obsolete longitudinal depression in front of scutel- 

 lum, and a deep irregular one on each side near lateral margin ; sur- 

 face coarsely and deeply punctate, the punctures irregularly placed, 

 more remotely separated on the disk and becoming more or less con- 

 fluent in some areas. Scutellum subquadrate, truncate in front, and 

 rounded behind. Elytra slightly wider than pronotum at base, 

 rather strongly expanded behind the humeri, obliquely attenuate to 

 apical third, then strongly arcuately attenuate to the tips, which are 

 truncate, sinuate, and more or less bidentate ; surface striato-punctate, 

 the striae not deeply impressed, and the punctures fine and rather 

 closely placed ; intervals feebly convex, not alternately elevated, and 

 with a few coarse irregularly placed punctures. Abdomen beneath 

 coarsely, sparsely and and irregularly punctate, and sparsely clothed 

 with short recumbent cinereous hairs; intervals finely and densely 

 granulose; first segment broadly flattened at middle; last segment 

 rounded and more or less sinuate at apex. Prosternum feebly con- 

 vex, shining, coarsely and very sparsely punctate; anterior margin 

 feebly arcuately emarginate and narrowly declivous; prosternal 

 process strongly convex, not sulcate at middle, parallel to behind the 

 anterior coxal cavities, then obliquely attenuate to the apex, which 

 is acutely rounded. Anterior femora slightly more swollen at mid- 

 dle than middle or posterior ones ; anterior tibiae feebly flattened on 

 inner side, but not armed with a broad hook at apex ; anterior tarsi 

 not distinctly broader than posterior ones. 



Male. — Unknown. 



Length, 19 mm. ; width, 7.5 mm. 



Type locality. — Vinales, Cuba. 



Other localities. — Nueva Gerona, Isle of Pines. 



Type. — Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. Paratype. — Carnegie Museum. 



Paratype.—C2it. No. 26814, U.S.N.M. (fragments). 



This species is described from three specimens, one of which is 

 in fragments. Two of these were received from the American 

 Museum of Natural History and were collected at the type locality 

 by C. W. Leng, between September 16 and 22, 1913, the vegetation 

 consisting of scattered pines, with a few oaks, etc. The other speci- 

 men was received from the Carnegie Museum and was collected at 

 Nueva Gerona, Isle of Pines, by G. Link, during March, 1913. 

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