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separated from each other on the top by twice the width of the upper 

 lobe. Antenna slightly longer than the body, sparsely, coarsely, 

 feebly punctate, rather densely clothed with moderately long, re- 

 cumbent and semierect, yellowish hairs, more densely pubescent on 

 apical joints, and rather densely ciliate beneath with long, erect, 

 yellowish hairs; first joint robust, flattened beneath, moderately 

 clavate toward apex, one-half as long as the third joint, which is 

 distinctly longer than the fourth, the following joints nearly equal 

 in length. 



Pronotum as wide as long, subequal in width at base and apex, 

 widest at middle ; sides strongly, arcuately rounded anteriorly, more 

 obliquely narrowed posteriorly, narrowly constricted at base; disk 

 nearly even, with a vague elevation on each side in front of middle ; 

 surface finely, densely, feebly punctate, rather densely clothed with 

 short, recumbent, inconspicuous, yellowish hairs, with a few long, 

 erect hairs intermixed. Scutellum subtriangular, narrowly rounded 

 at apex, slightly concave, sparsely pubescent. 



Elytra four times as long as pronotum and slightly wider at 

 base than pronotum at middle; humeri rather strongly developed; 

 sides parallel from base to near the tips, which are separately 

 broadly rounded and feebly emarginate; disk slightly flattened; 

 surface coarsely, densely, uniformly punctate, sparsely, uniformly 

 clothed Avith short, semierect, and long, erect, yellowish hairs inter- 

 mixed, and each elytron ornamented with dark reddish brown mark- 

 ings as follows: A broad, transverse fascia at base, a triangular 

 spot at middle, not extending to lateral margin, a similar spot at 

 apical sixth, all these connected to a narrow vitta along the sutural 

 margin. 



Abdomen beneath vaguely granulose, feebW punctate, very 

 sparsely clothed with short, semierect, yellowish hairs ; last segment 

 broadly subtruncate at apex. Prosternum coarsely, feebly, irreg- 

 ularly punctate, sparsely clothed with short, inconspicuous hairs. 

 Pemora slightly flattened, moderately clavate toward apices, petio- 

 late at bases, rather densely clothed with long, semierect, yellow- 

 ish liairs. Tibiae slender, subcylinclrical, clothed with hairs similar 

 to those on the femora. 



Length, 11.75 mm; width, 2.75 mm. 



Type locality. — St. Lucia, British West Indies. 



T^y^e.— U.S.N.M. no. 50966. 



Remarks. — Described from a unique female collected December 

 18 bv A. F. Porter (Wickham collection). 



This species is allied to pooJei Fisher, but it differs from tliat 

 species in having the femora less strongly clavate and the elytra 

 ornamented with dark reddish brown markings. 



