NEW CEEAMBYCID BEETLES FISHER 201 



pubescence, with a few short, erect, white hairs intermixed, orna- 

 mented on each side along Literal margin with a narrow vitta of 

 dense, whitish pubescence, and with a small, narrow, glabrous spot 

 at middle of disk. Scutellum elongate, sides parallel, densely clothed 

 with yellowish white pubescence. 



Elytra four times as long as pronotum, at base as wide as pro- 

 notum; sides feebly, obliquely expanded from base to near the tips, 

 which are divaricate and separately broadly rounded; disk strongly 

 flattened, each elytron with three distinctly elevated, longitudinal 

 costae, not including the sutural margin, the first extending from 

 base to basal third, and the second connected to the lateral one near 

 apex ; surface with two longitudinal rows of deep, coarse punctures 

 between each costa, sparsely clothed between the costae with very 

 short, brownish hairs, the costae on basal halves densely clothed 

 with short, recmnbent, whitish pubescence, each elytron ornamented 

 near apex with an oblique, dense, white pubescent spot or fascia. 



Body beneath coarsely, rather sparsely, irregularly punctate, 

 densely clothed with recumbent, brownish-yellow and yellowish- 

 white pubescence, with a few erect, whitish hairs intermixed, the 

 pubescence on sternum more uniformly white, erect, and more or less 

 curly; last abdominal segment broadly subtruncate or feebly emar- 

 ginate at apex. 



Length, 10 mm; width, 1.35 mm. 



Type locality. — Mandeville, Jamaica. 



r^/pe.— U.S.N.M. no. 50977. 



Remarks. — Described from a single specimen from the Wickham 

 collection, collected April 1-1, 190C, by E. P. Van Duzee. 



This species is very closely allied to grandis Chevrolat, but it dif- 

 fers from that species in having the pubescence distinctly shorter, 

 the elytra gradually expanded toward the apices, with the longitudi- 

 nal costae strongly elevated, and each elytron ornamented with a 

 distinct whitish pubescent spot or fascia near the apex. 



LEPTOSTYLUS MONTICOLA, new species 



Moderately robust, convex above, brownish yellow to reddish 

 brown, wdth the tips of the antennae slightly darker, rather densely 

 clothed with whitish pubescence, and ornamented with dark brown 

 markings. 



Head with the front slightly transverse, slightly convex, feebly 

 depressed between the antenna! tubercles, which are moderately ele- 

 vated and rather widely separated, with a narrow, longitudinal 

 groove extending from occiput to epistoma; surface indistinctly 

 punctate, densely, irregularly clothed with long, recumbent, whitish 

 pubescence, nearly concealing the surface, causing a variegated ap- 



