of St. Vincent, Grenada, and the Grenadines. 3 



sparsely, unequally punctate, the punctures finer at the sides than 

 in the middle ; the eyes large, coarsely granulated, and slightly 

 oblique as seen from above ; the supra-orbital carina indistinct. 

 Prothorax convex, strongly transverse, narrowing almost from the 

 base, the sides slightly rounded, the anterior angles rather obtuse, 

 the hind angles rectangular ; the surface thickly, unequally punctate 

 — with spaces here and there more finely and more closely punctured 

 than the other parts, — a narrow space down the middle behind 

 impunctate. Elytra moderately long, wider than the prothoraxj 

 rapidly narrowing from about the middle, the apices somewhat 

 pointed : with rows of moderately fine punctures placed in rather 

 broad shallow grooves, which become obsolete towards the apex ; 

 the interstices convex, sparsely, minutely, irregularly punctate. 

 Beneath somewhat thickly punctate ; prosternal process lanci- 

 form, horizontal, and received by the short V-shaped mesosternum. 

 Length 7|-9^, breadth 3^-4 mm. (,??). 



Hah. Grenadines — Becquia I., Union I., and 

 Mustique I. 



Numerous examples. Allied to E. aurulentiis, Kirsch, 

 from Central America and Colombia,* but smaller and 



* The Jamaican insect referred by me to this species (Biol, 

 Centr.-Am., Col., iv., 1, p. 23), and of which I have recently 

 received some additional specimens from Mr. Cockerell, proves to 

 belong to another species. The following is a description of it: — 

 Epitragtis jamaiccnuis, u. sp. — Oval, convex, pitchy-black, very 

 finely, sparsely pubescent, the pubescence partly hidden by a 

 dense, mealy, greenish or glaucous efflorescence, the sides of the 

 head between the eyes, and the prothorax and elytra, with dense 

 patches of ochreous hairs, which are only visible in fresh speci- 

 mens ; beneath pitchy-browu, clothed with fulvo-cinereous hairs, 

 and with denser patches of yellowish-white hairs ; the legs and 

 antennae piceous. Head very sparsely, coarsely punctate in the 

 middle, the sides and anterior half more closely and more finely 

 punctured, the epistoma ai'cuate-emarginate in front, the sides of 

 the front not prominent, the eyes coarsely granulated, the supra- 

 orbital carina indistinct. Prothorax transverse, moderately convex, 

 trapezoidal, the sides converging from the base and very feebly 

 rounded, the angles acute ; the surface unequally punctured — with 

 spaces here and there more finely and more closely punctured than 

 the other parts, and transversely depressed in the middle before 

 the base. Elytra rapidly narrowing from about the basal third, 

 somewhat pointed at the apex, slightly gibbous, the disc broadly 

 flattened and declivous from a little below the base ; with in- 

 terrupted rows of rather coai 8) shallow punctures, the interstices 

 fiat on the disc, feebly convex beyond the middle and very 

 sparsely, minutely punctate ; towards the sides and apex with 



