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obsolete toward the scutellum, there is also a narrow impression 

 along the lateral margin extending from the humeral angles to apex, 

 and a similar one along the suture near apex, causing the suture to 

 be slightly elevated posteriorly ; surface densely and coarsely gi-anu- 

 lose, becoming somewhat rugose in basal region, and with irregular 

 rows of coarse, irregularly placed punctures, which are somewhat 

 obsolete posteriorly, but becoming coarser and very deep at apex. 

 Abdomen beneath coarsely and rather densely reticulate, and 

 glabrous; last segment acutely rounded at apex, strongly declivous, 

 and the surface broadly and deeply concave. Prosternum strongly 

 convex, broadly arcuately emarginate in front, with the surface 

 strongly reticulate and densely granulose; prosternal process flat, 

 sides parallel and only feebly expanded behind the anterior coxal 

 cavities; apex truncate, with an obtuse tooth at the middle. Tarsal 

 claws simple. 



Length, 5.25 mm. ; width, 2 mm. 



Type locality. — Cuba. 



Type. — Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 



This species is described from a single specimen, collected by Jos. 

 H. Pazos in Cuba, without giving any definite locality, and which 

 was loaned for study by the American Museum of Natural History. 

 This specimen has the right elytron discolored. 



At first this was identified as subsinuata Gory, but after carefully 

 reading the redescription from the type given by Chevrolat it was 

 found to differ from it in a number of details. It does not exactly 

 agree with the description given by Gory, which is very short and 

 incomplete, and his figure shows a more elongate species, more at- 

 tenuate posteriorly, and the pronotum much narrower in front than 

 behind. Chevrolat gives the color as plumbeus-black, and places it 

 near A. vhidicornis Say and cyanella Castelnau and Gory from the 

 United States, but hifoveata is very distinct from any North Ameri- 

 can species by having the pronotum broadly and very deeply im- 

 pressed at the posterior angles. 



ANTHAXIA SUBSINUATA Gory 



Anthaxia subsinuata, Dejean, Cat. Coloept., 3 ed., 1836, p. 91 (no de- 

 scription). — Gory, Mon. Bupr. Suppl., vol. 4, 1841, pp. 289-290, pi. 48, 

 fig. 283. — Jacquelin Duval, in Ramon de la Sagra's Hist. Phys. Polit. 

 et Nat. de I'ile de Cuba, Anim. Artie, 1857 (French Edition), p. 65; 

 (Spanish Edition) vol. 7, 1857, p. 29. — Chevrolat, Ann. Soc. Ent. 

 France, ser. 4, vol. 7, 1867, p. 581 (separates p. 157). — Gundlach, Coii- 

 tribucion a la Entom. Cuba, vol.. 3, pt. 5, pp. 164-165. 



The following is a translation of Gory's original description : 



Greenish-black; thorax bi-impressed and punctate; elytra granu- 

 lose. Length, 21/0 lines ; width, % line. Habitat, Cuba. 



