ALTICINAE FROM THE WEST INDIES — BLAKE H 



dark markings and has a narrower aedeagus with a more tapering 

 point. The striate punctation on the elytra is also less distinct. 



Aphthona inornata Blake 



Figure 8 

 Aphthona inornata Blake, Journ. Wash. Acad. Sci., vol. 39, no. 11, p. 308, 1949. 



Numerous specimens of this species, which was described from a 

 single female collected at Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, have been taken 

 by R. G. Oakley at Ponce, Puerto Rico. Because of the similarity 

 in the yellow brown coloration of several species of West Indian 

 Aphthona, a drawing of the aedeagus is given here for the first time. 



Aphthona insularis, new species 



Figure 1 



About 2 mm. in length, oblong oval, shining, pronotum very finely 

 punctate, elytra somewhat more coarsely and striately punctate, 

 with slight depression below basal callosity, deep black with faint 

 bluish lustre, antennae pale at base, deeper brown towards apex, 

 femora piceous, tibiae and tarsi sometimes slightly paler. 



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

 frontal tubercles clearly marked but not swollen, occiput smooth, 

 impunctate, a short carina, slightly produced between antennal 

 sockets and down lower front, entirely dark. Antennae not reaching 

 middle of elytra, basal two joints swollen, third joint slightly shorter 

 than fourth, remainder subequal, becoming somewhat wider and 

 darker in color. Prothorax moderately convex with arcuate sides 

 and oblique angles anteriorly, disc without depressions, polished and 

 finely punctate, entirely dark. Scutellum entirely dark. Elytra 

 convex, lateral margin almost invisible from above, a slight depression 

 below basal callosity, lines of fine striate punctures slightly irregular 

 near suture, between these a line of very fine striate punctures; 

 entirely dark with faint deep bluish lustre. Body beneath entirely 

 dark, hind femora enlarged, hind tibiae with short apical sulcus and 

 spur at apex. Length 2-2.4 mm.; width 1-1.3 mm. 



Type, male, USNM 66202, and 9 paratypes from Dominica, West 

 Indies, collected by H. W. Foote of the Yale 1913 Expedition ui June 

 and July, 1913. 



Remarks. — The dark bluish black coloration of this species dis- 

 tinguishes it from the smaller yellowish brown species of Aphthona 

 from the West Indies. 



Aphthona himprocyanea, new species 



Figure 9 



Between 2 and 3 mm. in length, oblong oval, polished, dark vio- 

 laceous blue, nearly impunctate, a remnant of striate punctation on 



