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anterior angles obtuse and declivous, the posterior ones acute, with a 

 longitudinal impressed line at base, and the anterior margin green: 

 scutellum smooth, rounded, and purpureous ; elytra flattened, strongly 

 cuneate, margin serrate, and the apex mucronate; each elytron with 

 three fasciae and a longitudinal vitta toward the apex emerald-green, 

 first fascia at base, second and third in front and foehind the middle, 

 short, oppositely obliquely placed ("vice versa oblique positis"), 

 and punctate-striate, interstice vaguely and irregularly punctate; 

 body beneath minutely and regularly punctate, green with an 

 emerald-green tinge, and the stigmata golden-yellow ; legs green, and 

 the tarsi black. Length, 23 mm.; width, 4 mm. Cuba. From the 

 collections of Gundlach and Poey. 



This species and the following {quadricolor) are of unusual form 

 for this genus, and rather resemble the female of Anthaxia cyani- 

 comis Fabricius. 



I have not seen any specimens of this genus from Cuba, and since 

 the distribution of this species is probably confined to that island, 

 the species remains unknown to the writer, Gundlach (1891) re- 

 cords this species from Bayamo, Cuba. This species is not repre- 

 sented in the Poey collection in Philadelphia, but there is a single 

 example labeled No. 792 in the Gundlach Museum in Habana, which 

 is the specimen referred to by Gundlach. 



HALECIA QUADRICOLOR Chcvrolat 



Halecia quadricolor Chevrolat, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, ser. 4, vol. 7, 1867, p. 

 574 (separates p. 150). — Gundlach, Contribiicion a la Entom. Cuba, 

 vol. 3, pt. 5, 1891, p. 157, No. 1417. — Keukemans, Hon. Bupr., vol. 3, 

 1909, pp. 413-^14. 



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



Elongate, densely punctate, red; beneath green and purple inter- 

 mixed, legs cyaneo-purpureous, tarsi blackish ; head densely punctate 

 and red, around the eyes cyaneous, vertex green ; palpi ancl antennae 

 black; eyes oblong, fuscous; thorax red, subquadrate, and the front 

 narrowed and straight ; base bisinuate, its margin green ; lateral mar- 

 gins deflexed, strongly arcuately reflexed; above with three deep 

 longitudinal sulci, the dorsal line green, and deeply impressed at 

 base ; scutellum green, obscure, transverse and bifoveate; elytra wider 

 than pronotum at base, attenuate posteriorly, obliquely mucronate, 

 obsoletely denticulate, punctate-striate, red. the suture broadly sulcate 

 and green; epipleura bright cyaneous. Length, 24 mm.; width, 5 

 mm. Cuba. From the collections of Gundlach and Poey. 



This species rather approaches in form and color to Anthaxia sutu- 

 mlis Olivier, 



This is also a Cuban species, and no specimens have been seen 

 which agrees with Chevrolat's description. Gundlach (1891) re- 

 cords it from the western part of Cuba, The species is not repre- 

 sented in the Poey collection in Philadelphia, but there is a single 

 example labeled No. 1417 in the Gundlach Museum in Habana, which 

 is the specimen refered to by Gundlach. 



