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other on the top by twice the width of the upper lobe. Antenna 

 about as long as the body, basal joints subcyclindrical, sparsely 

 punctate, sparsel}^ clothed with recumbent, yellowish pubescence, 

 with numerous long, erect hairs intermixed, apical joints more or 

 less flattened, finely, densely punctate, and more densely pubescent; 

 joints 3 to 7 unispinose, the spine on the third joint nearly as long 

 as the fourth joint and rounded at apex; first joint robust, subcy- 

 lindrical, slight!}^ shorter than third joint, which is distinctly longer 

 than the fourth, 



Pronotum cylindrical, longer than wide, subequal in width at base 

 and apex, widest at middle; sides moderately, arcuately rounded, 

 vaguely constricted at base and apex; disk even, strongly convex; 

 surface sparsely, coarsely, irregularly punctate on disk, more finely, 

 densely punctate toward sides, clothed with a few long, erect, incon- 

 spicuous hairs. Scutellum transverse, broadly rounded at apex, 

 sparsely pubescent. 



Elytra nearly three times as long as pronotum, at base subequal 

 in width to pronotum at middle; sides parallel from base to near 

 the tips, which are separately bispinose, with the outer spine much 

 longer than the inner one; surface coarsely, densely, irregularly 

 punctate basally, the punctures becoming finer and more distant 

 toward the apices, sparsely clothed with long, erect, yellowish hairs; 

 each elytron ornamented with two transverse, black fasciae, a rather 

 broad one at basal fourth, not extending to lateral or sutural margins, 

 and a very broad one at apical third. 



Abdomen beneath impunctate, clothed with a few long, semierect, 

 yellowish hairs ; last segment broadly rounded at apex. Prosternum 

 feebly punctate ; prosternal j)rocess very narrow, feebly expanded and 

 arcuately declivous posteriorly. Mesosternum rather narrow between 

 the coxal cavities, arcuately declivous in front. Legs rather long, 

 sparsely clothed with long, semierect, yellowish hairs; femora mod- 

 erately clavate, but not spinose at apices. 



Length, 7.5-9 mm; width, 1.62-1.87 nun. 



Type locality. — Corralillo, Santa Clara, Cuba. 



7'?/ioe.— U.S.N.M. no. 50969. 



Paratype. — Returned to Miguel L. Jaume. 



Remarks.^— DQ^dvihGdi from two specimens (one type) collected by 

 Miguel L. Jaume and Manuel Barro. The type was collected at the 

 type locality, June 13, 1933, and the parat3^pe was collected at Puente 

 Almendares, Habana, Cuba, June 6, 1932. 



This species differs from the other known species of the tribe Pho- 

 racanthini found in the West Indies in being of a uniform, brownish 

 yellow color, and in having the elytra ornamented with two trans- 

 verse, black fasciae, and the spine on the third joint of the antennae 

 nearly as long as the fourth joint. 



