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This species is close to G. armata Laporte and Gory, and I place 

 it in that series. It is distinguished from the two preceding 

 {costulifera and inultipunctata) by the groove on the pronotum and 

 by the feebly punctiform impressions on the elytra, which are about 

 eight in number on each elytron. 



Chevrolat states that it can be distinguished from the two other 

 Cuban species, costulifera and multi'punctata^ by the pronotum being 

 sulcate. Since both of these species have the pronotum feebly sulcate 

 at the middle and were represented in his collection, his species sul- 

 cioollis is probably broadly and deeply sulcate. 



Gundlach (1891) records collecting it at Caimanera, near the Bay 

 of Guantanamo, Cuba. 



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

 deljihia, but there is a single example, labeled No. 1418, in the 

 Gundlach Museum in Habana, which was not available for study. 



The species has been placed in the key solely upon the characters 

 given in the original description, as no specimens have been available 

 for study. 



CINYRA COSTULIFERA Chevrolat 



Cinyra costulifera Cheveolat, Ann. Soc. Eut. France, ser. 4, vol. 7, 1867, 

 p. 579 (separates, p. 155). — Gundlach, Contribucion a la Entom. Cuba, 

 vol. 3, pt. 5, p. 162, no. 105. 



Male. — Form elongate, more robust than albonotata or multipunc- 

 tata and more flattened above; head dark aeneo-cupreous, more 

 cupreous at epistoma, and becoming aureo-cupreous on the occiput, 

 bottom of punctures bright green; pronotum and elytra aeneo- 

 cupreous, the latter feebly purplish, with numerous bright cupreous 

 or aureous foveae; beneath aeneo-cupreous, with purplish, greenish, 

 or cyaneous reflections, more shining than above, and the sides of 

 the abdominal segments ornated with sparsely clothed pubescent 

 spots. 



Head feebly, evenly convex, without depressions, but with a dis- 

 tinct longitudinal carina on the occiput; front with the sides ab- 

 liquely converging to the vertex ; surface deeply, rather densely and 

 irregularly punctate, with numerous irregular smooth spaces on the 

 front, and sparsely clothed with short inconspicuous hairs; epistoma 

 broadly and deeply arcuately emarginate at middle, the lateral angles 

 of the emargination acutely rounded. Pronotum one and one-half 

 times as wide as long, slightly narrower in front than behind ; sides 

 feebly obliquely expanded from anterior margin to apical fourth, 

 then nearly parallel to the posterior angles, which are rather acute ; 

 anterior margin nearly truncate, with an obsolete, broadly rounded 

 median lobe; base feebly bisinuate; disk with an obsolete median 

 sulcus, a deep ante-scutellar fovea, and four densely punctured im- 



