NEW CEEAMBYCID BEETLES FISHER 209 



Abdomen beneath strongly shining, feebly, sparsely punctate, 

 sparsely clothed with long, fine, recumbent hairs; last segment 

 broadly rounded or subtruncate at apex. Legs moderately clothed 

 with short, recumbent, whitish hairs; femora strongly clavate, the 

 club elongate and slightly flattened laterally. 



Length, 4.25 mm; width, 1.25 mm. 



Type locality. — Mandeville, Jamaica. 



r2/;?f>.— U.S.N.M. no. 50983. 



Remarks. — Described from a single specimen from the Wickham 

 collection, collected April 1-4, 1906, by E. P. Van Duzee. 



ESSOSTRUTHA ROBERTO, new species 



Female. — Elongate, subparallel, slightly flattened above; above 

 dark brown, the elytra slightly paler at bases, the head, pronotum, 

 and elytra ornamented with yellowish-white pubescent markings; 

 legs uniforml}^ pale brownish yellow. 



Head with the front slightly transverse, slightly narrower above 

 than beneath, nearly flat, feebly concave between the antennal tu- 

 bercles, which are widely sejiarated and feebly elevated; surface 

 coarsely, sparsely punctate, the punctures nearly concealed by the 

 pubescence, densely clothed with very short, dark brown hairs, with 

 a few long, fine, erect hairs intermixed, and ornamented on the front 

 and outer margins of the eyes with very dense, broad, recumbent, 

 yellowish-white jjubescence, the yellowish pubescence on the front 

 inclosing a broad, transverse, brownish pubescent spot behind the 

 epistoma; eyes large, finel}^ granulated, nearly divided, separated 

 from each other on the top by twice the width of the upper lobe. 

 Antenna slightly longer than the body, uniformly dark brown, 

 densely clothed with moderately long, recumbent, blackish hairs, 

 and rather densely ciliate beneath with long, erect, blackish hairs. 



Pronotum slightly wider than long, subequal in width at base and 

 apex, widest at middle; sides nearly parallel, slightly sinuate, feebly 

 expanded at middle ; disk regularly convex, feebly tumid at middle, 

 feebly, broadly, transversely depressed along base; surface coarsely, 

 sparsely punctate, densely clothed with very short, dark brown 

 hairs, with a few long, erect hairs intermixed, and ornamented on 

 each side of middle with a large, broad, irregular, transverse spot of 

 very dense, broad, recumbent, yellowish white pul^escence. Scutel- 

 lum strongly transverse, broadly rounded or subtruncate at apex. 



Elytra three and one-half times as long as pronotum, at base dis- 

 tinctly wider than pronotum; humeri strongly developed; side? 

 slightly narrow^ed from base to apical sixth, then arcuately rounded 

 to the tips, which are separately feebly emarginate; disk slightly 



