of St. Vincent, Grenada, and the Grenadines. 39 



differs in its depressed fornix more prominent eyes, more 

 slender antennae, etc. The elytra have a deep transverse 

 depression below the base, as in various species of 

 Salpingus, Anthicus, etc. An allied undescribed form 

 from Guadeloupe is contained in the collection of 

 M. Fleutiaux of Paris. Beaten from bushes in the 

 forest (Smith). 



CEDEMEKID.E. 



OXACIS. 



Oxacis, Leconte, New Sp. Col, p. 165 (April, 1866). 

 Hypasclera, Kirsch, Berl, ent. Zeitschr,, xxx., p. 210 

 (July, 1866). 



Oxacis simplex. 



Copidita simplex, C. 0. Waterh., Trans. Ent. Soc. 

 Lond., 1878, p. 308. 



Hah. St. Vincent — Windward side ; Grenadines — 

 ]\Justique I. 



Six examples. 'J'he punctuation of the upper surface 

 is exceedingly fine and close, and the pubescence is fine 

 and silky. The claws are angularly dilated within. The 

 lefc mandible is pointed at the tip, and the right mandible 

 is toothed on the upper side before the apex. The 

 antennae vsLvy in colour from testaceous to piceous, the 

 two basal joints being always pale. Specimens of this 

 species have also been collected in the island of Antigua, 

 by the Rev. T. A. Marshall. The type was from 

 St. Bartholomew. 



Oxacis antillarum, u. sp. 

 Moderately elongate, rathei- broad, shining ; testaceous, the head 

 with a broad stripe down the middle, the prothorax with a median 

 line, not reaching the base or apex, and the tips of the mandibles, 

 piceous, the ej-es black ; the antenna) f usee -testaceous, the two 

 basal joints flavous ; the elytra fusco-piceous with a bluish lustre, 

 with a broad sutural stripe, abruptly narrowed at the base, and the 

 lateral margin very narrowly, flavous ; the abdomen in great part 

 piceous, testaceous at the base : above and beneath rather sparsely 

 clothed with fine yellowish-cinereous pubescence. Head thickly 



