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Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist.). CoK. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. : One speci- 

 men, Cuba (Poey Coll. No. 1716). Coll. Carnegie Mus.: One speci- 

 men, Nueva Gerona, Isle of Pines, July 31, 1912. There is a single 

 example of this species labeled No. 1257 in the Gundlach Museum in 

 Habana, and another in the British Museum which have not been 

 examined. 



PSILOPTERA (LAMPETIS) BAHAMICA, new species 



Oyascutus carolinensis Wickham (not Horn), Canad. Eutomol., vol. 27, 

 1895, p. 295. 



Male. — Form rather broadly elongate, attenuate and broadly 

 rounded in front, and more acuminate posteriorly; head cupreous; 

 pronotum and elytra with the reliefs shining, bluish, purplish, cupre- 

 ous or rubinous when viewed in different lights, the depressions 

 olivaceous or aeneo-cupreous ; elytra without marginal grooves; be- 

 neath aeneo-cupreous, with a slight bluish or purplish tinge. 



Head nearly flat, occiput with a rather narrow smooth longitudinal 

 carina at middle ; surface strongly, irregularly rugose on the median 

 parts, the elevations broadly convex, smooth and shining on the top, 

 and very irregular in shape, there is a rather wide area along the mar- 

 gin of the eyes, which is densely and rather finely punctate, and 

 densely clothed with long, semierect cinereous hairs, the punctures 

 between the rugae deep, coarse, and from each one arises a rather 

 long recumbent hair; epistoma broadly, but not deeply arcuately 

 emarginate at the middle, and with an obtuse tooth on each side of 

 the emargination. Pronotum one and three-fourths times as wide as 

 long, slightly narrower in front than behind, middle and base about 

 equal in width ; sides feebly arcuately rounded from anterior margin 

 to near base, then very feebly obliquely expanded to the posterior 

 angles, which are acute; anterior margin feebly arcuately emargi- 

 nate, with an obsolete median lobe; base bisinuate, with the median 

 lobe very bi-oad and feebly rounded; lateral margins coarsely and 

 irregularly crenulate, except at the extreme posterior angles, where 

 they are smooth and shining ; disk with a broad, rather deep depres- 

 sion in front of the scutellum, in the bottom of which are two deep 

 foveae; surface rather uneven, with a tendency of forming trans- 

 verse smooth spaces, but these are more or less punctured and not 

 distinct, coarsely and sparsely punctate, the punctures very irregu- 

 larly situated, becoming somewhat confluent along anterior and 

 lateral margins, and sparsely clothed with short inconspicuous hairs. 

 Scutellum transverse, and finely granulose. Elytra slightly wider 

 than pronotum at base, feebly arcuately expanded behind the humeral 

 angles, which are broadly rounded, nearly parallel to behind the 

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

 feebly emarginate ; lateral margins coarsely and irregularly crenulate 



