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Scutellum very small, triangular, with the sides equal in length. 

 Elytra distinctly wider than pronotum at base; sides broadly 

 rounded at humeral angles, nearly parallel to behind the middle, then 

 arcuately attenuate to the tips, which are conjointly broadly rounded; 

 lateral margins strongly serrate to the middle, the teeth large and 

 rather evenly spaced ; humeri not prominent ; base broadly arcuately 

 lobed ; surface with very indistinct longitudinal costae at apex, with 

 eight round deep depressions as noted above, densely and deeply 

 punctate, the punctures becoming denser and confluent toward the 

 sides; intervals finely and densely granulose. Abdomen beneath 

 sparsely, coarsely, and irregularly punctate, and very sparsely 

 clothed with long inconspicuous cinereous hairs; intervals obso- 

 letely granulose ; first segment broadly depressed at middle ; last seg- 

 ment with the lateral margins entire, with an obsolete serrate sub- 

 marginal ridge, and the apex with two semicircular emarginations, 

 the median tooth only about one-half as long as the lateral ones. 

 Prosternum with a distinct median lobe in front, behind which the 

 surface is abruptly and broadly depressed, and with only a few 

 large, irregularly placed punctures, and very sparsely clothed with 

 long cinereous hairs; intervals smooth; prosternal process flat, 

 strongly expanded behind the coxal cavities, and with a very large 

 triangular tooth at apex. Femora robust; anterior pair with a 

 large acute tooth on outer edge near middle, the exterior margin of 

 which is not serrate. Anterior tibiae arcuate, flattened on the inner 

 surface, and without any dilatations, the middle and posterior pairs 

 straight and subcylindrical. 



Length, 9 mm. ; width, 3.75 mm. 



Type locality. — Port-au-Prince, Haiti. 



Type.— C^t. No. 26809, U.S.N.M. 



Described from a single female collected at the type locality by 

 R. J. Crew and received through the kindness of H. F. Wickham. 

 I have also examined fragments of this species collected by E. G. 

 Smyth at Higueral, Santa Domingo, during February, 1916. 



The species is closely allied to chlorosticta Thomson, and mega- 

 cephala Castelnau and Gory. From the former it can be separated 

 by the absence of the green markings on humeral angles of elytra, 

 elytral spots smaller, and the epistoma broadly angularly emar- 

 ginate. From megacephala it can be distinguished by the elytral 

 foveae being green, and the posterior ones placed obliquely on each 

 elytron. It is also allied to astuta described by Waterhouse from 

 Mexico, but the pronotum is more strongly angulated anteriorly than 

 in that species, and the elytral foveae are green. 



