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Avhich he records fi-om Poito Rico are probably Chrysobothris woJ- 

 Gotti Fisher, as no specimens of lepida have been seen from that 

 island. 



Specimens have been examined from the following localities. Coll. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus. : Cayamas, Cuba, January to June (E. A. Schwarz) ; 

 Long Island, Bahamas, January 4, 1879 (E. A. Schwarz). Coll. 

 Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. : Cuba (Poey Coll. No. 117). Coll. Amer. Mus. 

 Nat. Hist.: Banon San Vicente (near Vifiales), Cuba, elevation about 

 1,000 feet in a valley in the Sierra de los Organos, September 16, 

 1913, the vegetation consisting of palms, guava, and many other 

 shrubs and trees (Chas. W. Leng). Coll. S. C. Bruner: Santiago de 

 las Vegas, Cuba, January 18, 1922 (S. C. Bruner). The species is 

 also represented in the Gundlach Museum in Habana by two ex- 

 amples labeled No. 505, and by a single example in the British 

 Museum, neither of which have been examined. 



CHRYSOBOTHRIS MEGACEPHALA Castelnau and Gory 



Chrysobothris mefwcephala Castelnau and Goky, Mon. Bupr., vol. 2, 1836, 

 p. 13, pi. 3, fig. IS. 



Male. — Form rather elongate, moderately convex and subopaque: 

 color uniformly dark aeneous; each elytron with four round, deep 

 impressions, which are slightly more aureous or cupreous at the 

 bottom ; tarsi aeneo-piceous. 



Head feebly convex, with the front triangular and the sides 

 obliquely narrowed to the vertex ; occiput moderatel}' wide and obso- 

 letely longitudinally carinate; front not impressed; vertex with a 

 transverse elevation; surface densely and coarsely punctate, the 

 punctures on the front rather shallow, irregular, and nearly conflu- 

 ent, the sides forming a network of polygonal areas, the bottom of 

 which are granulose, rather densely clothed with long semi-erect 

 silvery-white hairs, which do not obscure the surface; eyes large, 

 strongly convex, more acutely rounded at bottom than on top and 

 separated on the occiput by slightly less than the distance between 

 the antennal cavities; epistoma narrowly and deeply eniarginate in 

 front, the lobe on each side forming an arc from the bottom of the 

 emargination ; antennae rather long, third joint about as long as 

 the following four joints united. Pronotum strongly transverse, 

 nearly two times as wide as long, widest at apical third, apex and 

 base about equal in width; sides very strongly angulated at apical 

 third, then slightly arcuately rounded and feebly narrowed to post- 

 erior angles, which are rather acute; anterior margin arcuately 

 emarginate, with an obsolete median lobe; base rather strongly arcu- 

 ately emarginate on each side at the elytral lobe, with the median 

 lobe broadly rounded, and truncate in front of scutellum; surface 



