Coleoptera of St. Vincent, Grenada, and Grenadines. 251 
Var. a. Elytral markings more or less confluent. 
Var. 6, Elytra entirely dark blue. 
Length, 14 line. 
Head impunctate, fulvous, the vertex with a shallow groove, the 
lateral sulci moderately deep, finely pubescent; lower portion of 
the face black, clothed with yellowish hairs; antenne scarcely 
extending to the middle of the elytra, black, the third and fourth 
joints equal; thorax about one-half broader than long, the sides 
but little constricted at the middle, the transverse suleus moder- 
ately deep, the surface with some distinct rows of puncturesat the 
middle and some others near the anterior angles, the latter 
rounded ; scutellum truncate at the apex ; elytra without basal 
depression, very deeply and closely punctate-striate, the ninth row 
interrupted at the middle and the smooth space raised, as well as 
the following interstice, a spot on the shoulders, another near the 
middle, a rounded Jarger patch below the scutellum across the 
suture, and a still larger patch occupying the entire apical portion, 
dark blue ; underside and legs covered with silvery pubescence, the 
knees and the anterior tibiz sometimes stained with fulvous. 
Hab. Grenada—Balthazar (Windward side), Mount 
Gay Estate (Leeward side). 
This is another of the small species resembling in its 
elytral pattern L. dorsalis (Oliv.), and several closely allied 
forms. It is, however, quite distinct from any of the 
described species of the genus on account of the much 
shorter antennz and the shape of the thorax, the latter 
being so little constricted at the sides as to appear nearly 
subquadrate ; in L. dorsalis and others the thorax is very 
deeply constricted and shorter. In most of the speci- 
mens of LJ. siarpi the spots on the elytra are well 
separated, notably the two small lateral ones; but in some 
of them the basal and apical patches join at the suture, 
and are also connected with the spots on the disc, so that 
‘the pattern exactly resembles that of the other allied 
forms. I should have referred this species to L. inter- 
media, Suffr., from Cuba, had not the author described 
the thorax as deeply constricted at the middle. In the 
‘specimens of the variety ) the head has a small black spot 
-on: the vertex, and the elytra are entirely metallic blue ; 
these agree, however, so entirely in structural characters 
-with the normal form that I cannot separate them, 
-especially as in two of them there is a short fulvous stripe _ 
