of St. Vincent, Grenada, and the Grenadines. 21 



Alegoria. 



Alegoria, Castelnan, Hist. Nat. Ins. Col., ii , p. 221 

 (]840). 



Alegoria dilatata. 



Alegoria dilatata, Cast., loc. cit., p. 221 ; F. Bates, 

 Ent. Monthly Mag., ix., p. 182, nota ; Champ., 

 Biol. Centr.-Am., Col., iv., 1, p. 149. 



Hah. St. Vincent — Windward side; Grenada — 

 Balthazar and Windsor. 



Numerous specimens. A widely-distributed species 

 in Tropical America, ranging from Mexico to Peru, but 

 not previously recorded from the Antilles. A. castelnaui, 

 Fleut. and Salle, from the Island of Guadeloupe, chiefly 

 differs from it in having the punctures of the elytral stria3 

 coarse and distant from each other. Found under the 

 sheathing bases of decaying banana leaves, etc. (Smith). 



Uloma. 



Uloma, Castelnau, Hist. Nat. Ins. Col., ii., p. 220 

 (1840). 



Uloma sulcata, n. sp. (Plate I., fig. 4, $ .) 



Elongate, subparallel, convex, robust, castaneous or rufo-ferru- 

 ginous, shining. Head very short, closely, finely punctate, trans- 

 versely grooved in front ; the antennae short. Prothorax much 

 broader than long, transversely convex, a little narrower in front 

 than at the base, the sides rounded anteriorly and slightly converg- 

 ing behind, the angles obtuse ; very finely and rather sparsely 

 punctate, the punctuation a little closer towards the sides and 

 apex, and with a shallow transverse groove (sometimes obsolete) 

 before the base. Elytra two and one-half times the length of the 

 prothorax, narrowing from about the middle ; deeply crenate- 

 striate, the punctures rather coarse, shallow, and somewhat 

 distantly placed ; the interstices strongly convex throughout and 

 sparsely, minutely punctate ; the humeri swollen and projecting 

 in front ; the epipleurse extending to the apex. Fifth ventral 

 segment deeply foveate in the middle before the apex. 



(^ . Anterior tibiee broadly and abruptly widened on the inner 

 side from about the basal third, concave beneath in their outer 



