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Greenish-black. Mandibles of a beautiful golden-green. Head 

 punctate, with purplish reflection. Thorax with the anterior angles 

 declivous, the posterior ones straight, and the surface covered with 

 round, rather closely placed punctures, and near the posterior angles 

 with a rather large impression, which is smooth at the bottom, 

 Scutellum cupreous, triangular, and very finely granulose. Elytra 

 granulose, impressed at the base, and rounded at the apex, and with 

 the lateral margins and suture elevated behind the middle. Beneath 

 the body and legs are punctate, and of a very dark wine color. 



No specimens of this species have been examined. Jacquelin Duval 

 (1859) and Gundlach (1891) report it from Cuba, but both authors 

 state that they have not seen any specimens of it. From the records 

 it seems that the only known specimen of this species is the type in 

 the collection of Count Mniszech. Chevrolat (1867) has examined 

 the type, from which he gives a redescription, and the following is a 

 translation of it : 



Blackish-plumbeus, opaque, beneath shining; head flat, the front 

 Tvitli a rather deep and short fovea; eyes green. Thorax transverse; 

 front bisinuate, with a rounded median lobe; base nearly straight; 

 sides toward middle transversely impressed; elytra granulose, each 

 elytron with four foveae in front and middle, apex obtusely rounded. 



Length, 5.5 mm. ; width, 2 mm. Habitat, Cuba. 



Genus MELANOPHILA Eschscholtz 



Melanophila EscHsciior.TZ. Zool, Atlas, vol. 1, 1829, p. S (reprint, p. 8). — 



Lacokdvire, Gen. Col., vol. 4, 1857, pp. 47-49. — Horn, Trans. Amer. Ent. 



Soc, vol. 10, 1882, pp. 101-106, pi. 4. — Kerremans, Wytsman's Gen. 



Insectorum, fasc. 12, pt. 3, 1903, pp. 163-166. 

 Apatura Castelnau and Gory, Mon. Bupr., vol. 2, 1838, pp. 1-10, pis. 1-2, 



Addenda p. 2. 

 Diana Castelnau and Gory, Mon. Bupr., vol. 2, 1838, Btiprestis. pp. 155- 



157, pi. 38-39. 

 TracJujpteris Kirby, Richardson's Fauna Bor. Amer., vol. 4, 1837, pp. 



158-lGO. 

 Oxypterus Kirry, Richardson's Fauna Bor. Amer., vol. 4, 1837, pp. 160-161. 



Head nearl}^ flat and not narroAved by the insertion of the anten- 

 nae; epistoma very short and narrow, broadly arcuately emarginate 

 in front; antennal cavities small, round, not concealed under a carina, 

 narrowly closed in front and situated a short distance from the inner 

 margin of the eyes. Antennae moderately long, subfiliform; first 

 joint clavate and somewhat elongate; second short, obconic; third 

 slightly longer than the second, and shorter than first, feebly tri- 

 angular; the following joints triangular, dentate on the inner side, 

 and armed with a terminal poriferous fovea. Eyes elliptical, elon- 

 gate, feebly oblique, and only a little closer to each other on the ver- 

 tex than at the front. Pronotum Avider tlian long; disk feebly con- 

 vex, sometimes grooved at the middle or impressed on the sides ; sides 

 angulate or arcuately rounded, with a smooth marginal carina ; base 



