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roadside in dry places. Coll. U. S. Nat. Mus. : One specimen received 

 from S. C. Bruner labeled " Nagua, Oriente," collected July 7, 1922, 

 by C. H. Ballon. No specimens of this species have been found in 

 the Poey collection in Philadelphia, but Mr. Bruner reports that 

 there is a single example labeled No. 1053 in the Gundlach Museum 

 in Habana, but this specimen has not been examined by the writer. 



Genus LEIOPLEURA H. Deyrolle 



Leiopleura H. Deyrolle, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., vol. 8, 1864, p. 219.— Kebbe- 

 MANS, Wytsman's Gen. Insectorum, fasc. 12, pt. 4, 1903, pp. 32&-330. 



Head narrow, declivous in front, moderately convex behind, and 

 with the front grooved ; epistoma broadly emarginate in front, nar- 

 row and elongate between the antennal cavities; antennal cavities 

 large and nearly contiguous and extending almost to interior margin 

 of the eyes. Antennae short and slender; first and second joints 

 short and thick, the first slightly longer than the second; third to 

 fifth elongate, very slender, and subequal in length to each other; 

 the following joints abruptly dentate on the inner side, and armed 

 with terminal poriferous fovea. Eyes moderately large, suboval, 

 and parallel on the inner margin. Pronotum wider than long, nar- 

 rower in front than behind ; disk convex ; sides impressed, with the 

 margin sinuate or arcuate; base frequently depressed, strongly 

 bisinuate, with a large median lobe. Scutellum large and triangu- 

 lar. Elytra broad, strongly convex, often strongly impressed at the 

 sides behind the humeri, strongly attenuate posteriorly to the apex, 

 which is separately or conjointly rounded. Sternal cavity formed 

 by the mesosternum and metasternum, the lateral branches of the 

 former invisible. Metasternum broadly emarginate or truncate in 

 front. Prosternum with a deep oblique groove at the sides for the 

 insertion of the antennae while in repose; anterior margin some- 

 times with a median lobe; prosternal process usually very broad, 

 and broadly rounded at apex, and not constricted by the coxal cavi- 

 ties. Middle coxae a little more widely separated than the anterior 

 ones; posterior coxae dilated internally, narrowest at middle, and 

 feebly dilated externally. Legs rather robust and not lodged in 

 depressions beneath; femora feebly swollen; tibiae slender, sub- 

 cylindrical and nearly straight, the anterior and median ones feebly 

 arcuate; tarsi very short and the joints nearly subequal in length; 

 tarsal claws dentate at base. Body elliptical or oval, more or less 

 elongate, and very convex above. 



This genus was erected by Deyrolle and placed in his table for 

 separating the genera of Malaysian Trachytes, without giving a 

 further description, but in a footnote gives the following: "Type 



