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prosternal process short, broad, feebly convex, and without marginal 

 grooves, the sides nearly parallel to the middle of the anterior 

 coxal cavities, where they are emarginate and abruptlj^ narrowed 

 to near the apex, which is very broadly rounded. 



Female. — Differs from the male in having the first abdominal 

 segment feebly convex and without the denseh^ punctured and 

 pubescent median spot. 



Length, 16 mm. ; width, T mm. 



This species was described by Castelnau and Gor\' (1837) from 

 Cayenne, Guiana, as depressa, but since this name had been used 

 previously by Linnaeus for a species of this genus from South 

 America, Saunders (1871) proposed the new name goryi. The 

 species has also been described by Thomson (1878) from Colombia 

 as solieri^ and the second time in the same paper from Caracas, 

 Venezuela under the name of cribrata. Waterhouse has examined 

 the types of solieri and cribrata in the Oberthur collection and finds 

 that they are identical with the species described by Castelnau and 

 Gory as depressa., and later changed by Saunders to goryi. This is 

 the species recorded by Prof. H, F. Wickham (1895) from the 

 Bahamas as probably velasco Castelnau and Gory. 



The above description was made from a male specimen from 

 Venezuela, kindly loaned by the British Museum, and which was 

 compared wtih the type of cribrata by Waterhouse, and with which 

 it agrees. Leng and Mutchler in their List of the AVest Indian 

 Coleoptera^^ record it from the Antilles, and there is a single male 

 specimen in the Coll. U. S. Nat. Mus., receiA^ed from H. F. Wick- 

 ham, labeled "Water Cay, Bahamas" which does not differ from 

 the specimen from which the above description was made. In the 

 Coll. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., there is a single female labeled " Cuba 

 (Poey Coll. No. 347)" which is slightly narrower than the other 

 specimens examined. 



This is one of the shortest oblong species found in the AVest 

 Indies. It is entirely black above, equally rounded in front and 

 behind, and each elytron with five distinct costae, including the 

 scutellar one. 



POLYCESTA REGULARIS Waterhouse 



Polycesta regularis Waterhouse, Ann. and Maj:. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, vol. 

 14, 1904, pp. 256-257.— Kerrem AN s, Mon. Bupr., vol. 1, 1906, pp. 487- 

 488. 



The following is a copy of AVaterhouse's original description : 



Oblong, parallel, much flattened, only a little more than twice a.s long as 

 broad, nearly black, but with a slight cyaneous tint below. Elytra ferrugi- 



" Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. .S.^, 1914. p. 420. 



