Coleoptera of St. Vincent, Grenada, and Grenadines. 273 
Hab. St. Vincent —Windward and Leeward sides. 
This is one of the striped species, of which a great many 
have been described by von Harold in the ‘ Berliner ento- 
mologische Zeitschrift? for 1881, with none of which it 
entirely agrees. C1. shaipi belongs to the division in which 
the elytra have two stripes (instead of three), and amongst 
the species of this group it may be known by the imma- 
culate thorax and the black underside and legs. C. vit- 
tata, Har., from Tropical South America, is closely allied, 
but is larger, broader, and more convex, and has a trans- 
verse black band on the thorax. The twenty specimens 
before me show no variation of importance, except that 
in one or two of them the dark stripes of the elytra are 
united at the apex. 
Puysiuervs, Clark. 
Physimerus smithi, sp. n. 
Below piceous, above pale fuscous, fulvous, or flavous ; antennz 
(the apical joints excepted) and legs flavous ; thorax with a lateral 
and a median fuscous stripe ; clytra finely punctate-striate and 
pubescent, unspotted or with an obscure basal and post-median 
transverse fuscous band. 
Length, 1-1} line. 
Head minutely rugose-punctate, the frontal tubercles feebly 
raised ; clypeus strongly deflexed, shining ; palpi filiform ; antennz 
extending beyond the middle of the elytra, filiform, flavous, the 
apical two or three joints fuscous, the basal joint rather long and 
robust, the second short, the third and fourth elongate, equal, the 
fifth joint slightly longer, the following joints rather shorter, the 
terminal one more elongate and pointed ; thorax scarcely broader 
than long, very feebly narrowed at the base, the surface obsoletely, 
obliquely depressed on either side of the disc below the middle, 
clothed with short pubescence, which obscures the punctuation, ful- 
vous, a narrow stripe at the middle and one on each side fuscous ; 
scutellum small, fuscous; elytra with fine rows of punctures, scarcely 
perceptibly depressed below the base, opaque, fulvous, with a trans- 
verse band at the base and another below the middle fuscous, the 
lower one sometimes very broad and extending upwards at the sides, 
the surface clothed with short pubescence and scattered stiff yel- 
lowish bristles; legs flavous; posterior tibize with a spur; posterior 
tarsal joints short, of nearly equal length. 
