of St. Vincent, drenada, and the (jrrenadines. 45 



longer than 10, obliquely truncate at the apex — ( 5 ) shorter and 

 with joints G-10 gradually increasing in width, U and 10 about as 

 broad as long. Prothorax transverse, nearly as wide as the head, 

 with a shallow transverse groove on either side of the disc about the 

 middle. Elytra nearly twice as wide as the prothorax, and about 

 twice as long as broad, narrowing from the middle, and very 

 obtuse behind, without distinct depressions. Legs rather short, 

 the hind femora stout ; similar in both sexes. Length l^-lf, 

 breadth |-| mm. ( c^ ? .) 



Hab. St. Vincent — Leeward and Windward sides; 

 Grenada — Chantilly Estate. 



Twelve specimens, most of which ai-e in a bad state 

 of preservation. The description is taken from the 

 St. Vincent examples. The two from Grenada are in a 

 mutilated condition, and one of them has the dark mark- 

 ings much more extended and confluent, so as to leave 

 some small whitish-pubescent spots only on the elytra. 

 This peculiar little species is allied to X. latlcolUs, 

 Champ., and other Mexican forms. Beaten from herbage 

 in scrubby forest (Smith). 



ANTHICIDJi]. 



Macratria. 

 Macratiia, Newman, Ent. Mag., v., p. 377 (1838). 



Macratria femoralis, n. sp. (Plate I., fig. 16, S .) 



Elongate, subparallel, shining, brown or reddish-brown, the 

 prothorax piceous in one example ; the head ferruginous, testa- 

 ceous in front, the eyes black, the antenufe and legs testaceous, 

 the posterior femora with a large black spot on the inner face near 

 the apex ; beneath piceous or brown, the last two ventral segments 

 ferruginous ; the upper surface thickly clothed with rather long 

 fine decumbent yellowish-cinereous hairs, with scattered inter- 

 mixed long erect hairs, the under surface also thickly pubescent. 

 Head thickly, very minutely punctate; the eyes large, converging 

 in front ; antennae slender, moderately long, joints 3-8 equal in 

 length, 9-11 much longer and stouter. Prothorax longer than 

 broad, narrowing behind and dilated at the base, densely, finely 

 punctate. Elytra about two and one-half times the length of, and 



