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remans (1910) records specimens from Haiti in the Paris Museum, 

 Brussels Museum, and in the collection of Thery. 



Specimens have been examined from the following localities, and 

 from which the above description was made. Coll. Amer. Mus. 

 Nat. Hist. : One specimen, labeled Haiti, without any definite local- 

 ity. Coll. Mus, Comp. Zool. : One specimen. Grand liiviere, Haiti 

 (W. M. Mann). Coll. British Mus.: One specimen, labeled Haiti 

 (H. Deyrolle) ; and another, Haiti (Oberthur). U. S. Nat. Mus, : 

 One specimen. Port au Prince, Haiti (Fr}^ Coll. 1905-100) (Donated 

 by the British Museum). 



This species is closely allied to aurlfer Olivier, but is more ob- 

 liquel}- acuminate posteriorly, the reliefs on the pronotum are black, 

 and not interrupted transversely by an oblique depression, the elytra 

 aeneo-cupreous, and the striae and intervals not as distinctly inter- 

 rupted by irregular transverse punctured areas. 



PSILOPTERA (LAMPETIS) STRABA Chevrolat 



Psiloptera straba Chevrolat, Ann. Ent. Soc. France, ser. 4, vol. 7, 1867, 

 p. 575 (separates p, 151). — Gundlach, Contribucion h la Entoni. Cuba, 

 vol. 3, pt. 5, 1891, p. 158, no. 1257. — Kerremans, Mon. Bupr., vol. 5, 

 1910, pp. 58-59. 



Form rather narrowly elongate, attenuate and broadly rounded in 

 front, and strong^ acuminate posteriorly; elytra without marginal 

 grooves; above uniformly aeneo-cupreous, sometimes Avith a strong 

 reddish tinge, the elytra ornated with numerous small depressions, 

 which are densely covered with a whitish pulverulence ; beneath 

 aeneo-brunneus, with the median parts of a brilliant reddish-cupre- 

 ous color. 



Head feebly convex; occiput with a narrow longitudinal groove 

 at the middle; surface strongly and very irregularlj- rugose, the ele- 

 vations broadly convex, irregular in shape and size, covering the en- 

 tire surface, and obsoletely granulose on the top, the depressions 

 sparsel}^, coarsel}- and irregularly punctate, each puncture with a 

 small round elevation at the middle, from which arises a rather long 

 semi-erect cinereous hair; epistoma broadly and deeply arcuately 

 emarginate at middle, the margin truncate on each side of the emar- 

 gination. Pronotum one and one-half times as wide as long, slightly 

 narrower in front than behind, widest at the middle; sides strongly 

 arcuately rounded from the anterior margin to near base, then paral- 

 lel or feebly obliquely expanded to the posterior angles, which are 

 acute: anterior margin feebly arcuately emarginate, with an obso- 

 lete median lobe: base bisinuate, with a very broad moderately round- 

 ed lobe at middle; lateral margins rounded in front, and more or 

 less crenulate posteriorly; surface more or less transversely concave 

 at basal third, the concavity somewhat interrupted at the middle, and 



