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wider than pronotum at base; humeral angles obtusely angulated; 

 sides feebly arcuately concave from the humeral angles to middle, 

 where they are broadly rounded and about equal in width to the 

 base, then strongly obliquely attenuate to the tips, which are sepa- 

 rately rounded and feebly serrulate; humeri well developed; each 

 elytron with a broad and rather deep basal depression, and a dis- 

 tinct lateral carina extending from the humeri to about basal third ; 

 surface with indistinct rows of shallow, feebly defined punctures, 

 which are obsoletely granulose at the bottom, the punctures rather 

 large at base, but becoming very fine and indistinct toward the 

 apex; intervals somewhat rugose at base, but nearly smooth at the 

 apical region, and very sparsely clothed with a few short incon- 

 spicuous hairs. Abdomen beneath moderately convex, sparsely and 

 rather obsoletely punctate, the punctures very shallow, oblong, and 

 open on the one side, each puncture bearing a short recumbent 

 cinereous hair; intervals densely and obsoletely reticulate; last seg- 

 ment broadly rounded at apex, with the apical groove deep, and 

 following the outline of the lateral margin, but not extending to it. 

 Prosternum rather coarsely punctate. Front and middle tibiae mod- 

 erately arcuate. 



Length, 3.2 mm. ; width 1 mm. 



Tyye locality. — Trinidad, West Indies. 



Type and paraty pes. —Csit. No. 26815, U.S.N.M. 



Described from five specimens collected by August Busck, June 

 12 and 21. 



This species can be easily distinguished from all the other species 

 of this genus described from the West Indies (except laesicollis 

 Chevrolat), by the elytra having a distinct lateral carina. From 

 laesicoUis it can be separated by the color, which is piceous, and not 

 aeneous, as in that species. 



TAPHROCERUS SUBGLABER. new species 



Form rather broadly elongate, strongly attenuate posteriorly, mod- 

 erately convex above; shining, uniformly piceous, with a strong 

 aenous or olivaceous tinge, and without pubescent spots; beneath 

 slightly more aeneous than above. 



Head considerably narrower than pronotum at base, and when 

 viewed from above is transversely truncate in front, with a feeble 

 emargination at middle, with a longitudinal groove extending from 

 the occiput to epistoma, the groove rather broadly and deeply im- 

 pressed on the front, but becoming obsolete on the occiput; front 

 wide, with the sides more widely separated above than in front, and 

 feebly convex between the eyes; surface nearly smooth, with a few 

 very shallow, irregularly placed punctures, and very sparsely clothed 

 with short, inconspicuous, cinerous hairs; eyes large, oval, about 



