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due genre, Brachys concinna Gory, etc." The species of this genus 

 are very numerous, and their distribution has been confined to the 

 warmer parts of Mexico, Central and South America, with the 

 exception of one species, which has been described from the West 

 Indies. 



LEIOPLEURA COMPACTILIS Cheyrolat 



Leiopleura compactllis Chrevolat, Anu. Soc. Ent. France, ser. 4, vol. 7, 

 1867, p. 588 (separates p. 164). — Gundlach, Contribucion {\ la Entom. 

 Cuba, vol. 3, pt. 5, 1891, pp. 171-172, no. 862. 



The folloAving is a translation of Chevrolat's original description: 



Broad, short, and cupreous; head rounded, convex, green and 

 deeply sulcate in its entire length; antennae black; eyes large, some- 

 what oblong and luteous; thorax pale cupreous, distinctly punctu- 

 late, attenuate anteriorly, straight, at vertex arcuate, within slightly 

 margined and sulcate, posteriorly broader, broadly biarcuate, and 

 truncate in front of scutellum, sides deflexed and rounded, the four 

 angles shortly prominent; scutellum triangular and aeneous; elytra 

 aureous (quadratical in form), parallel, margins reflexed, then 

 toward the apex conjointly angularly and obtusely produced, at 

 middle of the base transvei^ely reflexed, beyond the middle semi- 

 circularly elevated, and posteriorly transversely depressed, strongly 

 and almost regularly punctate; body beneath and legs cupreous. 

 Length, 3.5 mm. ; width, 2 mm. Cuba, in the central region. Collec- 

 tions of Gundlach and Poey. 



Gundlach (1891) records collecting it at Guamacaro, between Ma- 

 tanzas and Cardenas, Cuba. 



The species is not represented in the Poey collection in Philadel- 

 phia, but there is a single example labeled No. 862 in the Gundlach 

 Museum in Habana, which has not been available for study. 



Genus PARADOMORPHUS Waterhouse 



Paradomorphiis Watekhouse, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, 1887, p. 183 ; Biol. 

 Centr. Amer. Coleopt., vol. 3, pt. 1, 1889, pp. 51-57. — Keruemans, 

 Wytsman's Gen. Insectorum, fasc. 12, pt. 4, 1903, pp. 263-264. 



Head more or less tuberculate, front grooved ; epistoma emarginate 

 in front and strongly narrowed by the antennal cavities; antennal 

 cavities large, elliptical, oblique and placed at some distance from the 

 ej'es; cheeks armed with a short, acute tooth. Antennae 11-jointed, 

 not received in a groove in prosternum while at rest, moderately 

 long, and serrate from the fourth or fifth joint, the serrate joints 

 . armed with terminal poriferous foveae. Eyes rather large, oblong, 

 strongly convex, parallel on the inner margin (sometimes a little 

 more widely sepai-ated in front than on occiput), Pronotum more 

 or less uneven; bisinuate in front, with the median lobe rounded; 

 sides more or less sinuate and arcuate ; base strongly bisinuate, with 

 a distinct median lobe, Scutellum large, triangular, truncate in 

 front and acuminate behind; surface transversely carinate. Elytra 



