136 [June, 



Taken by sweeping near Port an Prince, Haiti, in Februarv, 1908. 

 Type in my Collection. 



Peutomacrus distinctns, u. sp. 

 Testaceous, rather shining. Head shallowly punctured, slightly infuscate 

 on the front. Thorax almost cylindrical, ninch longer than broad, witli shallow 

 pnnctiiration, disc marked on either side with ill-defined ferruginous spot. 

 Elytra shining testaceous, rather coarsely punctured, each marked with two 

 ferruginous bands, one situated before the middle and convex backwards, the 

 other placed behind the middle and slightly convex forwards, each pair meets 

 its fellow at the suture. Antennas and legs testaceous, all the femora armed 

 with a tooth, that of the middle and posterior, larger and having the posterior 

 edge of the tooth on the hinder femora serrated. All the tibiaj distinctly 

 sinuated. Length, 5 mm. 



Taken by sweeping near Port au Prince, Haiti, in February, 1908. 

 Type in my Collection. 



The following Table should sen^e to discriminate the species 

 at present known: — 

 A. — Posterior tibiae sinuated. 



1. Posterior edge of posterior femoral tooth not serrated. 



a. Thorax more diffusely punctured, elytra mottled with piuislish- 

 brown spots scambus, Newm.* 



a'. Thorax closely punctiu'ed, elytra with two transverse bands, one 

 behind shoulders, one before apex de7iti2)es, 01. t 



2. Posterior edge of hinder femoral tooth serrated. 



a. Colour reddish-testaceous, thorax dull, very obsoletely punctured, 

 no definite bands on the elytra serratus, n. sp. 



a'. Testaceous, thorax shining, distinctly piinctured, each elytra 

 marked with two distinct bands distinctus, n. sp. 



B. — Posterior tibiae not sinuated. 



1. Size larger (12 mm.), thorax marked with black at anterior margin and 



sides in front. Elytra marked with three well-defined transverse dark 

 brown bands .femoratus, F. 



2. Size smaller (7-10 mm.), thorax withovit markings, three obscure 



transverse elytral bands .fasciatus, Gahan. 



Fehruary, 1910. 



* This insect was removed from Xewman's genus Ciiriug and i)lacod by Leconte and 

 Horn (Col. North America, p. 289) in Dejean's PCectromerun. As the latter author has given 

 no characteristics of the genus and the insect falls naturally into White's Pentomucrus 

 (Longicorn viii, 2, 1855, p. 207) I have accordingly included it in the Table. 



t Hen.shaw, Cat. Col. North America, 1885, p. 07, sinks scambus, Newm., as a synonym 

 of dentipes, Ol. The insect in the British Museum Collection standing under the latter name 

 is quite distinct from the type of Newman's scambus in that Collection. 01i\'ier's description 

 and figure, although the latter is poor, would apply to the insect named dentipes, OL, in the 

 B. M. Collection, but would not ap]ily to scambus, the elytra of which are said to be, " profunde 

 punct^i, luteola fusco varia" (The Kntoniologist, March, 184!. p. 79), whilst Olivier's description 

 of dtiitipcs leads, "elytris fasciis duabus fuscis " (Eut. iv, 70, p. 2'.l). 



