of St. Vincent, Grenada, and tJie (h-enadines. 33 

 CISTELID^. 



LOBOI'ODA. 



Lohopoda, Solier^ Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1835, p. 23o. 



Lobopoda insularis, n. sp. (Plate I., figg- 10, $ ; 10a, 

 genitalia.) 



$. Elongate, rather broad, black, shining, clothed with 

 scattered hairs ; the tibi« pitchy-brown, the tarsi ferruginous : 

 the antennae ferruginous, with the five basal joints partly piceous. 

 Head sparsely, finely punctate ; the eyes very large, approximate 

 in front ; antenna; about half the length of the body. Prothorax 

 strongly transverse, a little narrowed in front, the sides rounded 

 anteriorly and almost parallel behind ; the surface sparselj^, finely 

 punctate, obsoletely canaliculate down the middle, ti'ansversely 

 depressed in the centre before the base, and with deep basal foveas. 

 Elytra elongate, a little wider than the prothorax, gradually nar- 

 rowing from about the middle to the apex, the apices rounded ; 

 deeply crenate-striate, the punctures moderately coarse ; the 

 interstices feebly convex, rery sparsely, finely punctate. Legs 

 elongate ; tibiae roughly punctured, the anterior pair gradually 

 widened on the inner side to a little beyond the middle, and 

 then abruptly narrowed and concave to the apex (appearing 

 broadly subangularly dilated), the hind pair slightly curved ; 

 anterior tarsi with joints 1-4, and the intermediate tarsi with 

 joint 4, broadly lobed beneath. Genitalia : the lateral lobes 

 slender and moderately long, curved inwards, slightly tapering at 

 the tip, and fringed with loug hairs beneath ; the central sheath 

 very long and stout, abruptly narrowed at some distance before 

 the apex, the apex truncate. Length 9|, breadth 3^ mm. 



Hah. Grenadines — Mustique I. 



One specimen. More elongate and more parallel than 

 L. tarsalis, Fleut. and Salle, from Guadeloupe Island, the 

 thorax more sparsely punctured, more shining, and dis- 

 tinctly narrower than the elytra. The anterior tarsi have 

 the four basal joints lobed beneath. Amongst the 

 Central- American species it perhaps approaches nearest 

 to L. ohlonga from Yucatan. 



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