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marked, narrow carina down lower front; top of head deeper brown, 

 pale in lower front. Antennae pale yellow brown with outer four 

 joints slightly darker and wider, not extending much below humeri, 

 fifth joint longer than fourth. Pro thorax with rounded lateral sides, 

 having oblique angle anteriorly, disc somewhat rounded, shining, 

 finely punctate, pale yellow with lateral margin usually dark brown. 

 Scutellum brownish. Elytra moderately convex, without depres- 

 sions, shining, with rows of fine punctures becoming fainter near apex; 

 pale yellow brown with dark reddish brown humeral spot connecting 

 with brown sutural vitta more or less widely across base, sutural 

 vitta extending to apex and sometimes connecting with dark lateral 

 margin in darker specimens; in paler specimens only sutural edge 

 darkened; slightly below middle a brown fascia usually connected 

 at suture. Body beneath in darker specimens with middle of pro- 

 sternum and breast chestnut brown, abdomen and legs pale yellow 

 brown. Hind femora thickened, hind tibiae with short spur. Length 

 1.3-1.5 mm.; width .8 mm. 



Type, female, USNM 66194, and 11 paratopes, taken on Myrica 

 cerifera at Guanica, Puerto Rico, by R. G. Oakley, September 14, 

 1934. 



Remarks. — Dr. E. A. Schwarz originally identified this as Aphthona 

 maculipennis Jacoby, a Central American species, but that species as 

 described possesses a very different coloration. 



Aphthona lepta, new species 



Figure 5 



Approximately 1.5 mm. in length, oblong oval, shining, prothorax 

 very finely punctate, elytra somewhat more distinctly striate punctate, 

 entirely pale reddish brown with outer antennal joints slightly darker. 



Head with interocular space approximately half width of head, 

 occiput polished, a group of punctures near eye, frontal tubercles 

 clearly marked, carina down lower front, lower front paler, occiput 

 and mouth parts deeper brown. Antennae extending below humeri, 

 fifth joint longer than fourth; joints two, three, and four paler; outer 

 joints broader and hairier. Prothorax with arcuate sides, oblique 

 angles anteriorly and tooth at basal angle, smoothly convex, without 

 depressions, shining, very finely punctate. Scutellum brownish. 

 Elytra smoothly convex, without depressions, with fine striate punc- 

 tures; in male specimen more indistinct than in female; entirely 

 reddish brown. Body beneath and legs reddish brown. Length 

 1.5 mm.; width .7 mm. 



Type, male, USNM 66193, and one female paratype, collected at 

 Guanica, Puerto Rico, by R. G. Oakley, September 27, 1934. 



Remarks. — This is approximately the same size as Aphthona 

 crucifera, which was also collected at Guanica. It lacks the elytral 



