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This species is closely allied to megace'phala Castelnau and Gory, 

 and parvofoi}eata Fisher. From the former it is distinguished by 

 the elytral markings being green and the posterior foveae placed 

 obliquely on the elytron, and from the latter by having the humeral 

 angles green, elytral spots larger, and the epistoma more acutely 

 emarginate at the middle. 



The above description of the male was made from a specimen 

 labeled " St. Domingo," in the collection of the British Museum, and 

 that of the female, in the collection of the American Museum of 

 Natural History, collected by F. W. Watson at Villa Kivas, 20 miles 

 west of Sanchez, Dominican Republic, on June 19, 1915. The col- 

 lecting was done along the north bank of the Ura River to a point 

 one mile east of the town. The locality given by Thomson in the 

 original description is simply " St, Domingo." 



CHRYSOBOTHRIS PARVOFOVEATA. new species 



Female. — Form rather elongate, moderately convex, and sub- 

 opaque ; color uniformly dark aeneous ; each elytron with four small, 

 round spots, which are deeply impressed, bright green at the bottom, 

 and arranged as follows: One at the basal lobe, a similar one just 

 in front of the middle, and two others near the apical third, of which 

 the exterior one is considerably in advance of the interior one ; tai*si 

 cyaneous. 



Head rather strongly convex, with the front triangular, and the 

 sides feebly arcuately rounded; occiput wide, with a broad smooth 

 longitudinal carina; front not impressed; vertex with an obsolete 

 transverse elevation; surface densely and coarsely punctate, the punc- 

 tures somewhat confluent near the antennal cavities, sparsely clothed 

 with long, inconspicuous cinereous hairs; intervals obsoletely gran- 

 ulose; eyes large, strongly convex, more acutely rounded at bottom 

 than on top, and separated on the occiput by about the same dis- 

 tance as between the antennal cavities; epistoma broadly angularly 

 emarginate in front, the lobe on each side broadly rounded; antennae 

 rather short, third joint about as long as the following three joints 

 united. Pronotum strongly transverse, nearly two times as wide as 

 long, widest at apical third, slightly narrower behind than in front ; 

 sides very strongly angulated at apical third, then feebly sinuate, and 

 obliquely attenuate to the posterior angles, which are rather acute; 

 anterior margin arcuately emarginate, with a broadly rounded 

 median lobe; base arcuately emarginate on each side at the elytral 

 lobes, the median lobe broadly rounded, and narrowly truncate in 

 front of scutellum; surface evenly convex, without impressions, 

 rather densely and coarsely punctate, the punctures somewhat con- 

 fluent toward the sides; intervals finely and densely granulose. 



