PROCEEDINGS OF THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 



U.S. NATIONAL MUSEUM 



Vol.83 Washington: 1935 No. 2979 



NEW WEST INDIAN CERAMBYCID BEETLES 



By W. S. Fisher 



Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, United States Department of 



Agriculture 



This paper is the result of a study of the beetles of the family 

 Cerambycidae from the West Indies that have accumulated in the 

 collection of the United States National Museum during the past 2 

 years, including the material in the Wickham collection. It is a con- 

 tinuation of a more extended one published 3 years ago.^ One 

 genus, 18 species, and 1 A^ariety are described as new. 



PSEUDOEME ORNATA, r.cw species 



Female. — Elongate, parallel, strongly flattened above, rather 

 strongly shining, above and beneath uniformly pale brownish yel- 

 low, with the top of the head and the abdominal segments darker, 

 and the elytra ornamented with dark reddish brown markings. 



Head with the front strongly transverse, broadl}^ feebly concave 

 between the antennal tubercles, which are widely separated and 

 feebly elevated, coarsely, rugosely punctate on occiput, more finely 

 punctate on front, sparsely clothed with inconspicuous, recumbent 

 pubescence, ivith a few long, erect hairs intermixed, and with a nar- 

 row, longitudinal groove extending from epistoma to vertex; eyes 



iProc. U. S. Nat. Mns., vol. 80, art. 22, pp. 1-93, 19.^2. 



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