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This species was described by Dalman (1832) from Cuba, Chev- 

 rolat (1867) records it from all parts of Cuba, in the collections of 

 Gundlach, Poey, and Chevrolat. Gundlach (1891) records it as 

 being distributed throughout the entire island of Cuba, and reports 

 it taken a number of times on the stems of the " Icaco." Kerremans 

 (1910) records it from Cuba and Jamaica, but the latter locality 

 applies to the variety described in the present paper. 



Material has been examined from the following localities: Coll. 

 Amer, Mus. Nat. Hist. : Four specimens, labeled Santiago de Cuba, 

 without additional data; one specimen, Santiago, Cuba, September 

 6, 1903 (Wirt Robinson) ; one specimen, Cienfuegos, Cuba (Dr. 

 Eugenio Cuesta) ; and another one from Aguadores, on the coast 

 near Santiago de Cuba, August 25, 1908 (Chas. T. Ramsden). Coll. 

 Acad. Nat, Sci. Phila. : Two specimens, Cuba (Poey Coll. No. 12). 

 Coll. British Museum: One specimen, Cuba (Coll. Chevrolat) ; and 

 another one labeled simply Cuba. Coll. Carnegie Mus. : One speci- 

 men, Nueva Gerona, Isle of Pines, August 30, 1912. Coll. S. C. 

 Brimer : One specimen, Cienaga de Zapata, Cuba, July 9, 1920. Coll. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus. : Six specimens from Cayamas, Cuba, collected be- 

 tween December and May bj^ E. A. Schwarz. There are also two 

 specimens of this species labeled No. 2 in the Gundlach Museum in 

 Habana, which have not been examined. 



This seems to be the most common species of this genus found in 

 the West Indies, and can be separated from all the other species 

 from that region, except the variety jamaicensis, by the elytra hav- 

 ing a distinct longitudinal groove along the lateral margins, which 

 is usually filled with a dense yellowish pulverulence. From the 

 variety it can be separated by the color. 



PSILOPTERA (LAMPETIS) TORQUATA, var. JAMAICENSIS, new variety 



Similar in shape and structure to torguafa, but differs from it in 

 the color. Elevations above brownish-black, with a feeble cupre- 

 ous tinge when viewed in certain lights, and the depressed areas 

 olive-green or aeneous; beneath olivaceous, with a strong cupreous 

 reflection. 



Length, 18-30 mm. ; vddth, 6.5-12 mm. 



Type locality. — Pallisadoes, Kingston, Jamaica. 



Type, allotype, and paratypes. — Carnegie Museum. 



Paratypes.— Cat. No. 26805, U.S.N.M, One paratype in British 

 Museum, 



This variety described from 9 specimens, four males and four 

 females received the Carnegie Museum, which were collected at the 

 type locality October 1898, and one male from the British Museum 

 labeled Jamaica, without a definite locality. 



