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Mdichdri {puiictiila Walk, of McliclKuj, l>ut tliose from Jamaica were 

 probably the acuminipennis Spinola. Tlie Icngtli given by Spinola is 

 about 8 mm., which corresponds with my Jamaican material. In this 

 Jamaican species there is a blackish cloud beneath and behind the 

 elytral hump, the anterior side of which is piceous; and the elytra are 

 subfalcate at apex, which is cut off ()l)li(iucly and a little arcuated; the 

 vertex is longer and less deeply sculj)turetl than in Mdichari and the 

 base of the front is piceous brown. 



In these Florida specimens ol MeUchari the apex of the elytra is 

 narrower, wedge shaped and subacute; the costa is more abruptly 

 expanded at base and the disk wants the infuscation found in the 

 other species. Here the base of the front is scarcely if at all darker. 

 I cannot accept Melichar's synonymy of Walker's species he places 

 under acuminipennis, conformis, and punctata. 



Genus FLATOIDES (iuer. 

 Flatoides fusous n. sp. 



Form of Flatoides scabrosus Alclichar; dull blackish fuscous, disk of 

 the elytral areoles and all beneath pale yellowish brown. Length 

 10 mm. ; width across the elytra 4^ mm. 



Vertex a little more than one-half as long as the width between the 

 eyes, disk depressed, anterior margin quite regularly rounded. Front 

 a little longer than broad, narrowed toward the base, sides broadly 

 reflexed, moderately rounded, basal and clypeal margins parallel, 

 almost rectilinear; clypeus long triangular, a little convex. Pronotum 

 strongly rounded before between the eyes, of equal length across its 

 whole width, the discal plate formed by the strong curved lateral 

 carinse semicircular with the hind edge rather deeply arcuated. Meso- 

 notum lozenge shaped, the sides nearly equal, anterior angle rounded, 

 carinse obscure. Elytra about twice longer than broad, costa straight 

 and parallel with the connnissure, apex regularly rounded ; costal mem- 

 brane twice wider than the costal areole, broader toward the base 

 where it projects moderately in a rounded lobe; crossed by numerous 

 transverse veins; all the nervures h(^a\-v, those of the disk irregular; 

 toward the apex with two transverse lines, the inner indistinct and 

 irregular; the subbase with a strong l)lackish tubercle. Plates of the 

 male genital segment long triangular, approximate at base within. 



Color blackish fuscous covered with a grey mealy tomentimi which 

 obscures the neuration and other characters; indefinite disk of the 

 vertex and pronotum. marginal n(>rvuro and disk of all the areoles of 

 the elytra and all beneath dull yellowish brown; base of the front with 

 a blackish band which cros.ses the sides of the face and inferior flap of 

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