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it from Santo Domingo and Guadeloupe, in the collection of the 

 author, and writes that it is common in these two islands and prob- 

 ably will be found in Cuba. Gundlach (1891) records it from the 

 same localities. Fleutiaux and Salle (1890) record it from Guade- 

 loupe: Camp Jacobs (Delauney) ; Basse-Terre, ''dans les poteaux 

 de la cour du seminaire" (P. Coste) (Vitrac). Snyder (1919) re- 

 cords the habits of this species in Florida and gives methods for 

 combating it. It is also recorded by Gundlach (1894), and Stahl 

 (1882) from Porto Rico. 



Specimens have been examined from the following localities: 

 Coll. British Mus. : St. Domingue and Guadeloupe (Coll. Chevro- 

 lat) ; St. Thomas; Caliveny Est, windward side, Grenada (H. H. 

 Smith). Coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.: Higueral, Santo Domingo, April 11, 

 1913 (J. R. Johnson) ; Mayaguez, Porto Rico, May 20, 1914 (R. H. 

 Van Zwalenburg) ; Higueral, Santo Domingo, February, 1916 (E. G. 

 Smyth) . Coll. H. W. Wickham : Port-au-Prince, Haiti (R. J. Crew) . 

 Coll. Mus. Comp. Zool. : Grande Riviere, St. Marc and Cape Haitien, 

 Haiti (W. H. Mann). Coll. Porto Rico Exp. Sta. : San Sebastian, 

 Porto Rico, April 20, 1921 (G. N. Wolcott). Coll. Amer. Mus. Nat. 

 Hist.: Mangrove Cay, Andros Island, Bahamas, May-June (W. H. 

 Mann) ; Mayaguez, Porto Rico, May 30, 1914 (R. H. Van Zwalen- 

 burg) ; Sanchez, May 21, 1915, and San Lorenzo, June 29, 1915, 

 Dominican Republic (F. E. Watson) ; Mannville, Gaure road, Haiti, 

 Feb. 6, 1922 (F. E. Watson). 



CHRYSOBOTHRIS TUMIDA Chevrolat 



Chrysoltothrls ttimida Chevrolat, Aim. Soc. Ent. France, ser. 4, vol. 7, 

 1867, p. 585 (separates p. 161). — Gundlach, Contribucion H la Entom. 

 Cuba, vol. 3, pt. 5, 1891, pp. 168-169, no. 839. 



Female. — Form short and broad, strongly depressed, subopaque; 

 color above dark aeneous, with a strong purpureous reflection; each 

 elytron with ten feeble purpureous or concolorous foveae, four of 

 which are distinct and the remainder more or less obsolete, and ar- 

 ranged as follows: A deep round one at basal lobe, a narrow trans- 

 verse obsolete one along base near humeral angle, a broad and deeper 

 one behind the second, a broad obsolete one along suture behind the 

 first, three small obsolete ones along lateral margin behind the 

 humerus, a large distinct bilobed one on disk near middle, interrupt- 

 ing the second costa, a distinct zigzag one at apical third, situated 

 between the first and fourth costae, and partially interrupted by the 

 third coata, and an elongate obscure one near the apex; beneath 

 aeneous, more shining than above, and with strong purpureous 

 reflections. 



Head flat, with the front triangular, and the sides very strongly 

 obliquely narrowed to the vertex; occiput very narrow and longi- 



