Dec. .909.] Schaeffer: Three Cuban Coleoptera. 149 



1. Calosoma splendidum Mann., Dej. Spec. Gen., Vol. V, suppl., p. 558. 



Green, shining, without coppery or golden margin on thorax and elytra; 

 tibL-e, tarsi, mouthparts and antenns black; elytra crenate-striate and with 

 three rows of small punctures. 



Length 20-26 mm. 



Habitat. —Enterprise, Florida; S. Domingo. 



To be placed with scrutator, aurocinctum and wilcoxi, from which 

 splendidum differs by the uniform green color of head, thorax and 

 femora. 



2. Alaus (Calais) patricius Cand. Monog. Elat., Vol. I, p. 242, pi. IV, fig. 8. 



Brown, densely covered on the upper and under side with grayish-white, 

 squamiform hairs, but intermixed with brown on the upper side; the latter 

 color forms a large spot of irregular outline at sides near middle of each 

 elytron and on the prothorax two distinct, small, eye-like spots, which are 

 equidistant from each other and the side margin. The thorax is truncately 

 lobed at middle of apical margin; the hind angles are relatively strongly 

 divergent and carinate. The striae of elytra are feebly punctate; the apices 

 of elytra deeply emarginate. The antennae of the male reach to the hind 

 angles of thorax and are pectinate, those of the female are shorter and serrate. 

 Length 30-40 mm. 



f/a&ifaf.— Southwest Florida; Cuba. 



The figure given by Candeze lacks the eye spots, though he dis- 

 tinctly mentions them in his short Latin diagnosis and the follow- 

 ing fuller French description. 



Otto Schwarz in " Genera Insectorum " includes this species 

 erroneously in his section " Prothorax ohne Tomentmakeln," which, 

 though smaller than in myops, are nevertheless very apparent and 



distinct. 



From our North American species of Alajts this new addition will 

 be easily known by the deeply emarginate apices of elytra, the two 

 very small eye-like spots of the prothorax, which are equidistant from 

 each other and from the lateral margins, the truncately lobed apical 

 margin of prothorax, the pectinate antenna of the male and the 

 denser vestiture of upper and under side. 



3. Strongylaspis scobinatus Thoms. Class. Ceramb., p. 313- 



Pale brown, dull. Head, prothorax, scutellum and elytra covered with 

 fine granules. Third joint of antennae elongate, longer than fourth. Eyes 

 strongly granulate. Prothorax crenulate at sides and posteriorly with a 

 strong spine ; basal margin, on each side near the spine, arcuately emarginate ; 

 disk slightly uneven. Scutellum rather strongly convex. Elytra as wide as 

 the thorax at base ; humeri subspinose ; sides nearly parallel ; apices rounded 



