Coleoptera of St. Vincent, Grenada, and Grenadines. 
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Group DICREPIDIINI. 
Dicrepipius, Eschsch. 
Dicrepidius insularis, sp. n. 
3 Very elongate, narrow, flattened above, shining ; piceous or 
reddish-brown, the hind angles of the prothorax, and in one speci- 
men the anterior part also, reddish in colour, beneath reddish- 
castaneous, the antennz and legs ferrugineo-testaceous ; above and 
beneath somewhat thickly clothed with fulvo-cinereous pubescence. 
Head coarsely punctured, short, deeply sunk into the prothorax, 
sulcate between the eyes, declivousin front, the front subtriangular, 
the frontal carina not prominent as viewed from above, the eyes 
large ; antenne very elongate, extending to far beyond the middle 
of the elytra, the joints from the third each with an exceedingly 
elongate, slender ramus. Prothorax as long as broad, subcylin- 
drical, slightly narrowed in front; the hind angles long and feebly 
divergent, a little incurved at the tip, carinate ; the surface some- 
what thickly, moderately coarsely punctate (more sparsely and more 
coarsely in one specimen), the punctuation becoming sparser and 
finer towards the base, and with a median channel extending from 
a little beyond the middle to the base. Elytra about three and 
one-third times longer than the prothorax, gradually narrowing 
almost from the base ; punctate-striate, the strie deeply impressed 
in front, the interstices convex and sparsely, rugulosely punctured. 
Length 14, breadth a little over 3 millim. j 
Hab. St. Vincent—Leeward side; Grenada-—Bal- 
thazar (Windward side). 
One specimen from each locality, differing a little inter se 
in the colour of the body and the intensity of the puncturing 
of the thorax. D.insularis resembles the Central- American 
D. politus, Champ., in the form of the antennz in the 
male, except that the rami are still more elongate ; but 
differs from it in the less attenuate elytra, the more 
closely punctured thorax, the hind angles of which are 
less divergent, etc. The exceedingly elongate slender 
rami of the antennz in the male also separates it from D. 
palmatus, Cand., recorded from Guadeloupe by Fleutiaux 
and Sallé. The present insect cannot be identified with 
either D. ignotus or D. elegans, Fleut. and Sallé, from the 
same locality, apparently described from females only. 
