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are strongly angularly rounded, then broadly arcuately emarginate, 

 and strongly attenuate to the posterior angles, which are nearly rect- 

 angular; anterior margin broadly arcuately emarginate, with a 

 broadly rounded median lobe; base feebly bisinuate; disk very 

 uneven, with four shinning, elevated irregular vittae, the lateral 

 ones broader and strongly interrupted behind the middle, and the 

 median ones enclosing a small shining callus at the middle, there is 

 also an irregular elevation extending forward from the posterior 

 angles ; surface coarsely, densely, and confluently punctate in the de- 

 pressions. Scutellum small, sub-quadrate and finely granulose. 

 Elytra wider than pronotum at base, broadly rounded behind humeri, 

 strongly sinuate at basel third, broadly expanded behind middle, then 

 strongly attenuate to the tips, which are slightly expanded and di- 

 vergent, and rounded or substruncate at apex; sui'fface uneven, with 

 numerous irregular smooth elevated spaces, the depressions densely, 

 coarsely, and confluently punctate, with a few deeper punctures in- 

 termixed, which are green at the bottom, and tend to form striae on 

 the disk. Abdomen beneath coarsely, rather sparsely and irregularly 

 punctate, and sparsely clothed with a few short recumbent hairs; 

 intervals obsoletely granulose; first segment obsoletely flattened at 

 middle ; last segment elongate, acutely rounded at apex, and the sur- 

 face not bicostate. Prosternum feebly convex, broadly transversely 

 depressed anteriorly, and without elevated costae; surface densely, 

 coarsely, and confluently punctate, and sparsely clothed with short 

 inconspicuous hairs; anterior margin truncate; prosternal process 

 broadly sulcate at middle, feebly expanded behind the anterior coxal 

 cavities, then strongly attenuate to apex, which is broadly rounded. 



Length, 15 mm. ; width, 6.5 mm. 



This species was described by Castelnau and Gory (1838) from 

 North America. It is distributed over the eastern part of the United 

 States, but because of much confusion in the identification of the 

 species of this genus, it is difficult to give its distribution. 



Chevrolat (1867) records it from North America; Havana, Cuba; 

 and Senegal, and states that it has, without doubt been imported 

 into the two last countries in lumber. In the collections of Chevrolat, 

 Gundlach, and Poey. Gundlach (1891) records it from Habana, 

 Cuba, as having been introduced from the United States. 



This species is not represented in the Poey collection in Philadel- 

 phia, but there is a single example labeled No. 842 in the Gundlach 

 Museum in Habana, 



No specimens of this species have been examined from the West 

 Indies, and the above description was made from a specimen from 

 the United States, which agrees fairly well with Castelnau and 

 Gory's short description. 



