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with three broad smooth spaces arranged transversely, one at tlie 

 middle, and one on each side, balance of surface coarsely, irregularly, 

 and rather densely punctate, and usually covered with a white pul- 

 verulence. Scutellum small, slightly transverse and densely granu- 

 lose. Elytra distinctly Avider than pronotum at base, feebly ex- 

 panded behind the humeral angles, which are broadly rounded, paral- 

 lel to middle, then arcuately attenuate to the tips, which are truncate, 

 and more or less deeply emarginate; lateral margins entire, or at the 

 most, only obsoletel}^ crenulate near humeral angles; surface striato- 

 punctate, the striae more strongly impressed toward apex, the punc- 

 tures coarse, well separated on basal parts, but becoming somewhat 

 confluent posteriorly, intervals wide and nearly flat anteriorly, but 

 becoming narrower and strongly convex toward the apex, and more 

 or less transversely rugose laterally, the striae and intervals are in- 

 terrupted by numerous small round depressions, irregularly situated, 

 sparsely clothed with very short hairs, and densely covered with a 

 white pulverulence. Abdomen beneath sparsely and irregularly punc- 

 tate, the punctures coarse and more irregular in shape toward the 

 sides, and feebly scabrous on the sides of the basal segment, rather 

 densely but irregularly clothed with short recumbent cinereous hairs 

 at the sides of the segments; first segment broadly longitudinally 

 concave; last segment at apex broadly rounded in the female, sub- 

 truncate and feebly sinuate in the male. Prosternum feebly convex, 

 sometimes with the anterior margin feebly elevated, truncate or 

 slightly arcuately emarginate at middle, and with an obsolete lobe 

 on eacli side ; surface coarsely, rather densely punctate, and sparsely 

 clothed with short semi-erect hairs; prosternal process broad, flat, 

 and smooth at middle, with a deep marginal groove, which is coarsely, 

 irregularly punctate, and sparsely clothed with a row of short hairs, 

 sides parallel to behind the anterior coxal cavities, then strongly 

 attenuate and feebly arcuately emarginate to the apex, which is 

 broadly rounded. 



Length, 22-32 mm. ; width, 7-10.5 mm. 



Described by Chevrolat (1867) from Cuba, where he records it 

 as living on a species of pine in the western part of the island, 

 specimens in the collections of Gundlach, Poey, and Chevrolat. 

 Gundlach (1891) records it from Vuelta-Abaja, Cuba, where it was 

 found on the leaves of a pine. I have seen specimens from the fol- 

 lowing localities. Coll. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. : One specimen, San 

 Francisco, Isle of Pines, July 1, 1921, on Ficus elastica (Hall and 

 Ballou) ; two specimens, 14 kilometers north of Vinales, Cuba, 

 September 20, 1913, on pine, where most of the pines had been, 

 destroyed three years previously by a cyclone (C. W. Leng and 

 F. E. Lutz). Coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.: One specimen, from Guan- 

 tanomo. Cuba, March 1913 (Chas. T. Ramsden) (donated by the 



