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rounded, and the surface obsoletely striolate. Elytra slio:htly wider 

 than pronotum at base, obtusely rounded at humeral angles, nearly 

 parallel to behind humeri, slightly sinuate at posterior coxae, then 

 arcuately attenuate to the tips, which are truncate and feebly bi- 

 dentate; surface striato-punctate, the striae more deeply impressed 

 than in costuUfera^ somewhat interrupted by the foveae, and the 

 stria punctures small and obsolete, intervals flat, coarsely, densely, 

 and irregularly punctate, the foveae round, distinct, and tJie ar- 

 rangement similar to that of costulifera^ but clothed with cinereous 

 hairs. Abdomen beneath coarsely, rather densely, and irregularly 

 punctate, and rather densely clothed with long recumbent cinereous 

 hairs; first segment feebly flattened at middle; last segment sub- 

 truncate at apex, with a narrow transverse depression behind the 

 apical margin. Prosternum feebly convex ; surface coarsely, deeply, 

 and rather densely punctate, and sparsely clothed with fine long, 

 erect, cinereous hairs; anterior margin broadly but not abruptly 

 declivous on each side of the middle ; prosternal process flat, parallel 

 to behind the anterior coxal cavities, then obliquely attenuate to the 

 apex, which is acutely rounded. 



Female. — Similar to the male, except that the head is dark aeneo- 

 brunneus, and the prosternum and abdomen beneath not quite as 

 pubescent. 



Length, 11.5-13 mm. ; width, 3.75-4 mm. 



This species resembles albonotata in general form, but the sides of 

 the pronotum are more parallel and the disk more distinctly sulcate 

 at the middle, the elytra more distinctly striate, and the elytral 

 foveae larger, rounder, and more distinctly defined. 



This species* was originally described by Olivier (1790) from 

 Sweden, but the locality being questionable, and later recorded by 

 Castelnau and Gory (1838) from Habana, Cuba. Jacquelin Duval 

 (1857) recorded it as having been found in Habana. Chevrolat 

 (1867) recorded it from Cuba, and stated that material was in the 

 collections of Gundlach, Poey, and Chevrolat. Gundlach (1891) 

 records collecting it in the vicinity of "Bahia Honda y en la 

 Ferinina^'' Cuba. 



The following material has been examined. Coll. British Mus. : 

 One specimen labeled simply " Cuba." U. S. Nat. Mus. : Cuba 

 (Chevrolat Coll.) (donated by the British Museum). The species 

 is not represented in the Poey collection in Philadelphia, but there 

 are two examples labeled No. 1261 in the Gundlacli Museum in 

 Habana which have not been seen bv the writer. 



