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arranged in a semicircle over pronotum, and a small median basal 

 spot. Elytra faintly alutaceous, very finely punctate and somewhat 

 shiny, pale yellow with a narrow siitiiral vitta uniting at apex with 

 a narrow submarginal vitta, also a moderately wide median vitta; 

 epiplem-a brownish with a pale edge. Body beneath entirely pale, 

 covered with pale pubescence, femora pale, the anterior ones dark 

 streaked, tibiae usually dark along edges and at apex and tarsi dark. 

 Length 4.8 to 6.2 mm., width 2.5 to 2.8 mm. 



Type and paratype: In USNM 40977, from San Juan, Puerto 

 Rico, collected by W. A. Hoffman. 



Other localities: Puerto Rico: Mayagiiez, Lago Tortuguera, 

 Boqueron, Aguadilla, (last three collected by Stuart T. Danforth in 

 March 1929); Algarroba, Santurce, C. G. Anderson. Cuba: Cama- 

 giiey, July 29, 1923, J. Acufia. Haiti: Port de Paix, E. C. and G. M. 

 Leonard; Mon Fieri, 1924, W. A. Hoffman; Cape Haitien, W. M. 

 Mann. Isle of Pines. 



Remarks: This small West Indian species is rather widely dis- 

 persed over the islands of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Haiti. It is strongly 

 suggestive of the Venezuelan species, D. pittieri, but is more slender 

 and v/ith dark head markings. 



Disonycha gowdeyi Bryant 



Figure 39 

 Disonycha gowdeyi Bryant, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 9, voL 14, p. 250, 1924. 



Between 7.5 and 8 mm. in length, oblong oval, very shiny, impunc- 

 tate, not alutaceous; pale; the head with a dark oblong spot on occi- 

 put, darkened tubercles and dark mouthparts; pronotum 7-spotted; 

 elytra with the dark vittae sometimes shining with a violet luster, a 

 wide sutural vitta, not joined at apex with a narrow submarginal 

 vitta, and a wide median vitta; body beneath pale, femora dark at 

 apex, tibiae pale in the middle, tarsi dark. 



Head smooth except for the fovea on each side near eye, shining, 

 pale, the lower front rather elongate and narrow, deeply excavate 

 under antennal sockets, carina moderately narrow, interocular space 

 about half the width of the head, tubercles darkened and a dark spot 

 on occiput and dark mouthparts. Antennae unusually long and 

 slender, with the three basal joints paler than the dark outer joints. 

 Prothorax twice as wide as long, with wide anterior angles and straight 

 sides, not very convex and depressed along base over the scutellum, 

 impunctate, shiny, pale yellow, with seven moderately large dark 

 spots. Elytra very shiny, impunctate, with wide dark sutural and 

 median vittae, often shining with a violet luster, and narrow pale 

 vittae, the submarginal dark vitta not so wide and not joining with 



