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

 rately narrowly rounded and finely serralate; humeri well de- 

 veloped; each elytron with a broad and rather deep basal de- 

 pression, but without a lateral carina; surface with indistinct 

 rows of coarse, shallow punctures, the punctures rather distinct on 

 basal area, but becoming more indistinct toward the apex ; intervals 

 densely, coarsely granulose, more or less rugose, and clothed with a 

 few short recumbent cinereous hairs, which are more numerous in 

 the apical region. Abdomen beneath moderately convex, coarsely 

 and sparsely punctate, the punctures very shallow, oblong, and open 

 posteriorly, each puncture bearing a very short recumbent cinereous 

 hair; intervals densely and obsoletely reticulate; last segment nar- 

 rowly flattened and truncate at apex, with the apical groove deep 

 and following the outline of the lateral margin, but not extending 

 to it. Prosternum coarsely and densely reticulate. Front and mid- 

 dle tibiae slightly arcuate, the posterior pair nearly straight. 



Length, 4 mm. ; width, 1.25 mm. 



Type locality. — Cayamas, Cuba. 



Type and paratype.—Cvit. No. 26819, U.S.N.M. 



Described from two specimens collected by E. A. Schwarz, Febru- 

 ary 28. 



This is one of the largest West Indian species, and is of a uni- 

 formly bronzy-coppery color above. It is allied to laesicolUs Chev- 

 rolat, but can be separated from that species by the absence of the 

 longitudinal lateral carina on the elytra. 



TAPHROCERUS TIMIDUS Chevrolat 



Tapliroeerus timidtis Chevrolat, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, ser, 4, vol. 7, 

 1867, pp. 587-588 (separates pp. 163-164).— Gundlach, Contribucion 

 a la Entom. Cuba, vol. 3, pt. 5, 1891, p. 171, No. 1053. 



Form elongate, subcylindrical, strongly attenuate posteriorly, 

 moderately convex above, and rather shining; above uniformly 

 piceous, with a distinct aeneous tinge^ and without pubescent spots; 

 beneath slightly less aeneous than above. 



Head slightly narrower than pronotum at base, and when viewed 

 from above is broadly rounded in front, with a narrow, feebly im- 

 pressed longtiudinal groove, extending from the epistoma to the 

 vertex, 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 densely and rather coarsely granulose, 

 coarsely, densely punctate, the punctures shallow and distinctly 

 separated, and clothed with a few very short cinereous hairs; eyes 

 elongate, more acutely rounded beneath than above, nearly flat and 

 not projecting ; epistoma flat and rather narrowly and deeply arcu- 

 ately emarginate in front. Pronotum moderately convex, one and 

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