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backward, and feebly broadly rounded at the apex; surface feebly 

 convex, with a rather deep, round depression on each side of disk 

 in front of elytral lobe, sparsely and rather deeply punctate, the 

 punctures irregular in size and well separated; intervals finely and 

 densely granulose. Scutellum very small and nearly concealed by 

 the median lobe of pronotum. Elytra distinctly wider than prono- 

 tum at base ; sides broadly rounded at humeral angles, nearly paral- 

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

 produced into an acute tooth near the suture ; lateral margins finely, 

 obsoletely serrate to near the middle, the teeth very short and irregu- 

 larly placed ; humeri rather prominent ; base produced into a broadly 

 rounded lobe; surface finely and rather densely punctate, the inter- 

 vals obsoletely granulose ; each elytron w ith an obsolete longitudinal 

 costa along suture behind the middle, a similar one along the lateral 

 margin, and with three round green depressed spots as noted above. 

 Abdomen beneath densely and finely punctate, with spots of dense 

 pubescence on the sides of the segments, and the intervals obsoletely 

 granulose and more shining than above; first segment feebly im- 

 pressed at middle; last segment deeply longitudinally concave, and 

 the lateral margins with a distinct emargination near the apex, with- 

 out a serrate submarginal ridge, the apex deeply and arcuately 

 emarginate, with a strongly elevated longitudinal carina on each 

 side of the emargination. Prosternum with a broadly rounded 

 median lobe in front, surface somewhat gibbose, sparsely and very 

 finely punctate, and the intervals obsoletely granulose; prosternal 

 process feebly convex, very wide between the coxal cavities, only 

 feebly dilated behind them, and the apex with a short triangular 

 tooth. Femora robust; anterior pair with a broad round obtuse 

 tooth on the outer edge, placed closer to the apex than base, and 

 strongly dentate on the exterior margin. Anterior and middle 

 tibiae strongly arcuate, the former flattened on the inner surface, 

 but without any dilatation; the posterior pair straight and sub- 

 cylindrical. 



Female. — Differs from the male in having the first abdominal seg- 

 ment more deepl}- depressed at middle, and the apex of the last ven- 

 tral segment not as deeply emarginate, and the emargination more 

 broadly, and not acutely arcuate. 



Length, 15 mm. ; width, 6.5 mm. 



Described from South America by Fabricius without giving any 

 definite locality. The species is rather common throughout the 

 northern part of South America and has been recorded from Nica- 

 ragua, but has not been previously reported from the West Indies. 

 In the United States National Museum collection are two specimens 

 labeled Barbados, W. I., February 2, 1908 (F. J. Clarke-Ballou 

 No. 969). 



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