Proceedings of 

 the United States 

 National Museum 



SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION • WASHINGTON, D.C. 



Volume 115 1964 Number 3477 



NOTES ON NEW AND OLD SPECIES OF ALTICINAE 

 (COLEOPTERA) FROM THE WEST INDIES 



By Doris H. Blake 



The present paper describes 17 new species of beetles of the sub- 

 family Alticinae: 8 collected in Puerto Rico by R. G. Oakley, 4 in 

 Jamaica by T. H. Farr, and 5 from other sources. Notes on other 

 species are given, and the proper placing of species hitherto wrongly 

 ascribed to Pseudoepitrix is discussed. 



Aphthona crucifera, new species 

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About 1.5 mm. in length, oblong oval, shining, the pro thorax and 

 elytra lightly punctate, striate rows of punctures on elytra becoming 

 faint near apex, pale yellow brown, occiput of head deeper in color, 

 margins of prothorax usually dark brown and on elytra a brown 

 humeral spot connecting narrowly along base with a sutural darken- 

 ing, slightly below the middle a brown fascia, lateral margin more or 

 less dark. 



Head with interocular space a little more than half width of head, 

 occiput rounded, few punctures near eye, frontal tubercles distinctly 



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