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one larger, more oval, and not connected along the lateral margin 

 to the transverse basal fascia, the discal spots more strongly im- 

 pressed, surface more obsoletely grannlose, and the lateral margins 

 more strongly serrate. Abdomen beneath more coarsely and sparsely 

 punctate, the punctures very shallow and without well-defined mar- 

 gins, and the sides of the segments without smooth nodules. 



Length, 4.25 mm.; width, 2 mm. 



Tyye locality. — Kingston, Jamaica. 



Tyye.—Q^X. No. 26812, U.S.N.M. 



This variety is described from a single female collected by 

 Frank R. Mason at Liguanea Plain, Kingston, Jamaica, on July 5, 

 1920. Through the kindness of Mr. Mason the type has been de- 

 posited in the National Museum collection. 



Genus DICERCA Eschscholtz 



Dicerca Eschscholtz, Zool. Atlas, vol. 1, 1829, p. 9 (reprint p. 8). 



Dicerca Lacoedaire, Gen. Col., vol. 4, 1857, pp. 35-36. — Castelnau and 

 Gory, Mon. Bupr., vol. 2, 1838, Buprestis, pp. 93-108, pis. 24-27.— 

 Kerremans, Wytsman's Geu. Insectorum, fasc. 12, pt. 3, 1903, pp. 130- 

 133. 



Stenuris Kibby, Richardson's Fauna Bor Amer., vol. 4, 1837. pp. 154-156. 



Head flat, rugose, and slightly wider in front than on vertex; 

 front not narrowed by the insertion of the antennae ; epistoma short 

 and emarginate in front; antennal cavities small and rounded, sit- 

 uated at a considerable distance from the inner margin of the eyes 

 in a deep triangular depression, which is surrounded on two sides by 

 a strongly elevated carina. Antennae short and slender, extending 

 to about the middle of pronotum ; first joint short and clavate ; sec- 

 ond and third shorter and more slender, and about equal in length; 

 fourth longer than third, and feebly triangular; following joints 

 triangular, dentate on the inner side, and armed with a poriferous 

 fovea, situated on the inferior side at the apical margin of the joint. 

 Eyes rather small, oval, about two times as long as wide, feebly con- 

 vex, and closer together on the vertex than at the front. Pronotum 

 wider than long, more or less longitudinally grooved or carinate at 

 the middle; sides variable, sometimes constricted behind, with the 

 posterior angles acute; base bisinuate. Scutellum very small, 

 rounded or subquadrangular. Elytra elongate, sinuate at posterior 

 coxae, and strongly acuminate posteriorly, often produced into a tail- 

 like process; apex unarmed, sinuate or bidentate. Sternal cavity 

 formed by the mesosternum and metasternum ; mesosternum divided, 

 the lateral branches somewhat elongate; metasternum rounded in 

 front and feeblj- grooved at middle. Prosternum flat, concave or 

 grooved; anterior margin declivous, sinuate or bilobed; prosternal 



