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punctures becoming closer toward the sides, and sparsely clothed 

 with a few inconspicuous fulvous hairs in the impressions. Scutel- 

 lum very broad, with a sharply defined transverse carina, and the 

 surface rather coarsely and densely granulose. Elytra slightly wider 

 than pronotum at base, nearly parallel to basal fifth, feebly sinuate 

 to behind middle, where they are broadly emarginate, then obliquely 

 attenuate to the tips, which are separately broadly rounded, and 

 strongly dentate, the teeth well separated; sides of abdomen nar- 

 rowly visible from above ; each elytron feebly flattened along sutural 

 margin, rather broadly, deeply impressed at base, and with a dis- 

 tinct sinuate and broadly rounded costa extending from the humeri 

 to apex; humeri moderately elevated; surface densely, irregularly, 

 but not very deeply punctate, somewhat rugose at the sides and basal 

 region, and very sparsely clothed with short, inconspicuous fulvous 

 hairs. Abdomen beneath strongly convex, rather densely punctate, 

 the punctures rather shallow and widely separated at the middle, 

 but becoming coarser and somewhat rugose at the sides; rather 

 densely clothed with short, recumbent, cinereous and fulvous hairs, 

 the hairs long and erect at the apex; intervals finely and densely 

 granulose; first segment convex, not impressed nor more pubescent 

 than rest of abdomen; last segment broadly rounded at apex; ver- 

 tical portions of segments only sparsely pubescent; pygidium not 

 carinate. Prosternum coarsely and rather densely punctate, sparsely 

 clothed with recumbent cinereous hairs, and the intervals finely gran- 

 ulose ; prostemal lobe long, declivous and broadly arcuately rounded 

 in front; prostemal process broad, flat, strongly expanded behind 

 coxal cavities, then obliquely attenuate to the apex, which is rather 

 broadly rounded. Posterior tarsi three-fourths as long as the tibiae ; 

 first joint as long as the following three joints united ; anterior and 

 middle tibiae slightly arcuate, with a feeble mucro at the inner apex, 

 the posterior pair simple ; tarsal claws divergent, with a small tooth 

 at base, which is not turned inward. 



Length, 11,5 mm.; width, 3 mm. 



This species was described in a short description by Thomson from 

 Santo Domingo and seems to be rare in collections. The only speci- 

 men examined by the writer which agrees very well with Thomson's 

 description for this species, and from which the above description 

 was made, is in the collection of the American Museum of Natural 

 History at New York. This specimen was collected at Kio Seco, San 

 Carlos Estate, Guantanamo, Cuba, on June 16, 1916, by Chas. T. 

 Ramsden. There is a single example of this species in the British 

 Museum which has not been examined by the writer. 



The species is closely allied to macer LeConte, from the United 

 States, but differs from it in having the pronotum longitudinally 

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