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the sides more widely separated above than in front, and feebly con- 

 vex between the eyes; surface finely and densely graniilose, with a 

 few large, shallow, irregularly placed punctures intermixed, sparsely 

 clothed with a few vei*y short cinereous hairs behind the epistoma; 

 eyes large, oval, more acutely rounded beneath than above, rather 

 strongly convex, but only feebly projecting; epistoma flat, and rather 

 narrowly and deeply arcuately emarginate in front. Pronotum 

 moderately convex, nearly two times as wide as long, apex and base 

 about equal in width, widest at about the middle ; sides when viewed 

 from above are regularly arcuate; anterior margin nearly truncate; 

 base transversely truncate to middle of elytron, then turning 

 obliquely backward to the scutellum, in front of which it is feebly 

 arcuately emarginate; surface with a narrow transverse depression 

 along anterior margin, connected on each side to a broad depression 

 at lateral margin, this depression extending obliquely backward and 

 becoming nearly obsolete at base, and not extending transversely in 

 front of scutellum, surface with a few scattered ocellate punctures, 

 from the center of which arises a short inconspicuous cinereous hair ; 

 intervals finely and densely reticulate. Scutellum triangular, feebly 

 rounded in front, with the surface obsoletely reticulate. Elytra mod- 

 erately convex, slightly wider than pronotum at base; humeral 

 angles obtusely angulated ; sides strongly arcuately concave from the 

 humeral angles to the middle, where they are about equal in width 

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

 conjointly broadly rounded and feebly serrulate; humeri well devel- 

 oped; each elytron with a rather shallow, broad basal depression, 

 and without a lateral carina; surface with distinct rows of shallow, 

 feebly defined punctures, which are obsoletely granulose at the bot- 

 tom and from the center of which arises a short, inconspicuous, cine- 

 reous hair, the punctures larger at the base but becoming gradually 

 smaller toward the apex, where they are nearly obsolete; intervals 

 feebly rugose at the sides, but becoming smoother on the disk. Abdo- 

 men beneath moderately convex, sparsely and rather obsoletely punc- 

 tate, the punctures very shallow, oblong, open on the one side, larger 

 and more closely placed on the first segment, but becoming small and 

 indistinct on the last one, each puncture bearing a short recumbent 

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

 ment broadly rounded at apex, the apical groove following the out- 

 line of lateral margin but not extending to it. Prosternum finely 

 and densely reticulate-punctate. Front and middle tibiae moder- 

 ately arcuate. 



Length, 3 mm. ; width, 1 mm. 



Type locality. — Trinidad, West Indies. 



Type and paratype.—Csit. No. 26817, T^.S.N.M. 



