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becoming strongly purplish toward the sides, and with the last ab- 

 dominal segment more serrate at apex and the two lateral teeth pro- 

 jecting farther beyond the median part than in the male. 



Lengthy 6-7 mm. ; width, 2.6-3 mm. 



Type locality. — Mayaguez, Porto Rico. 



Other localities. — Rio Piedras and Anasco, Porto Rico, 



Type and allotype.— C^it. No. 26810, U.S.N.M. 



Paratypes. — British Museum and Collection Porto Rico Experi- 

 ment Station, 



Described from four specimens, two males and two females. The 

 type is from Mayaguez, Porto Rico, without any additional data. 

 The allotype was received from G. N. Wolcott of the Porto Rico 

 Experiment Station, and was collected at Rio Piedras, Porto Rico, 

 July 23, 1916, by E. G. Smyth, on a living twig of jobo {Spondea 

 lutea). There is also a male paratype in the British Museum Collec- 

 tion from Anasco, Porto Rico, collected September, 1913, by E. G. 

 Smyth, and a female paratype in the Porto Rico Experiment Station 

 collection from Rio Piedras, Porto Rico, collected November 25, 

 1912, by G. Nevarrete, 



This species was recorded by Gundlach (1891) from Porto Rico 

 as lepida Castelnau and Gory, but it is entirely different from that 

 species. It is allied to ChrysohothHs lepida Castelnau and Gory 

 from Cuba, and also to G. cKi^ysoela Illiger from the United 

 States, From both these species it differs by having the epistoma 

 triangularly emarginate, eyes more widely separated on occiput, 

 pronotum more strongly transversely rugose, and the sides less 

 strongly narrowed posteriorly, the last abdominal segment truncate, 

 the transverse green fascia on basal third of elytron connected along 

 the suture and lateral margin to the basal fascia, and the green fascia 

 at apical third slightly turned backward near the suture, while in 

 lepida and chrysoela the green markings usually consist only of spots 

 and are never connected along suture or lateral margin, 



CHRYSOBOTHRIS HISPANIOLAE, new species 



Female. — Form small, short, rather robust and feebly convex, and 

 siibopaque; head aeneous in front, becoming cupreous on the occi- 

 put; pronotum reddish-cupreous; elytra brownish-aeneous, and each 

 elytron ornated with bright green markings as follows: A trans- 

 verse spot along base enclosing a round deep basal depression, a 

 round deeply depressed spot on middle of disk, situated just in front 

 of middle, and an oblong feebly impressed spot at apical third, sit- 

 uated closer to the lateral margin than the suture, the median and 

 posterior green spots are narrowly margined with violaceous; be- 

 neath piceous, with a strong aenous tinge; tarsi cyaneous. 



