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fourth enlarged and cordiform. Body oval, rarely elongate, and 

 feebly convex above. 



The genus Cratomerus was erected by Solier for the species having 

 the antennae robust and the intermediate joints enlarged, and the 

 posterior femora swollen and arcuate in the males, but these char- 

 acters are not only variable in the species, but also vary among in- 

 dividuals of the same species. 



This genus has a very wide distribution, the species being found 

 in all parts of the world, with the exception of Australia. The 

 species are quite variable in color, difficult to separate and have caused 

 considerable synonymy. Previously only one species has been re- 

 corded from the West Indies. 



ANTHAXIA BIFOVEATA. new species 



Form oblong, strongly depressed, broadly rounded in front and 

 more attenuate behind; head violaceous; pronotum and scutellum 

 piceous, with a strong bluish tinge; elytra bluish-green; beneath 

 cyaneous, with the prosternum and middle of abdomen more 

 greenish. 



Head feebly convex, with the front rectangular and the sides 

 feebly sinuate and parallel; front broadly and rather deeply de- 

 pressed; surface glabrous, coarsely and rather densely punctate, the 

 punctures very shallow, irregularly placed, and coarsely and densely 

 granulose; eyes large, moderately convex, and parallel; epistoma 

 narrow, feebly triangularly, but not deeply emarginate in front; 

 antennae short, the serrate joints wider than long. Pronotum 

 strongly transverse, one and three-fifths times as wide as long, wid- 

 est at middle, slightly narrower in front than behind; sides regu- 

 larly and rather broadly rounded to near posterior angles, where 

 they are slightly sinuate; posterior angles acutely angulated; ante- 

 rior margin deeply arcuately emarginate, with an obsoletely rounded 

 median lobe ; base obsoletely rounded ; disk moderately convex, with 

 a large, very deep impression on each side at the posterior angles, 

 each impression covering about one-third of the basal region, extend- 

 ing to the base and lateral margins, and connected to each other at 

 the basal third by a transverse shallow, broadly concave impression ; 

 surface coarsely, densely granulose, and obsoletely reticulate, the 

 reticulation irregular and somewhat oval on the median parts, but 

 becoming longtitudinally strigose at the sides. Scutellum ogival, 

 surface densely, coarsely granulose. Elytra as wide as pronotum 

 at middle ; sides obtusely angulated at humeral angles, nearly parallel 

 to apical fourth, then strongly arcuately attenuate to the tips, which 

 are separately narrowly rounded; lateral margins obsoletely serrate 

 posteriorly; humeri prominent; base truncate; disk with a rather 

 broad basal impression, deeper at the humeri and becoming more 



