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  PROCEEDINGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  NATIONAL 
  MUSEUM 
  vol. 
  los 
  

  

  1917, 
  H. 
  Morrison; 
  Mandeville, 
  Van 
  Duzee, 
  A. 
  E. 
  Wight 
  (MCZ); 
  

   Montego 
  Bay, 
  Mar. 
  2, 
  1911; 
  Balaclava 
  (MCZ). 
  

  

  Remarks. 
  — 
  This 
  subspecies 
  differs 
  only 
  slightly 
  from 
  the 
  Cuban 
  race 
  

   in 
  having 
  a 
  more 
  acute 
  though 
  still 
  rounded 
  tip 
  to 
  the 
  aedeagus. 
  

  

  Strabala 
  ambulans 
  puertoricensis, 
  new 
  subspecies 
  

  

  Figure 
  17, 
  j 
  

  

  Between 
  4.5 
  and 
  5 
  mm. 
  in 
  length, 
  oval, 
  shiny, 
  elytra 
  not 
  alutaceous, 
  

   very 
  indistinctly 
  punctate, 
  reddish 
  brown, 
  antennae, 
  mouth 
  parts, 
  

   legs, 
  breast 
  and 
  abdomen 
  dark. 
  

  

  Head 
  with 
  scattered 
  punctures 
  and 
  a 
  fovea 
  or 
  circle 
  of 
  punctures 
  

   near 
  the 
  eyes. 
  Antennae 
  with 
  paler 
  basal 
  joints. 
  Prothorax 
  not 
  at 
  

   all 
  clearly 
  depressed 
  along 
  the 
  base. 
  Scutellum 
  dark. 
  Elytra 
  

   quite 
  shiny, 
  not 
  alutaceous, 
  very 
  finely 
  and 
  indistinctly 
  punctate. 
  

   Body 
  beneath 
  dark 
  except 
  the 
  prosternum. 
  Length 
  4.5 
  to 
  5 
  mm.; 
  

   width 
  2.5 
  to 
  3 
  mm. 
  

  

  Type. 
  — 
  Holotype 
  male 
  and 
  1 
  paratype, 
  USNM 
  61208; 
  1 
  paratype 
  

   in 
  Museum 
  of 
  Comparative 
  Zoology, 
  taken 
  at 
  Adjuntas, 
  Puerto 
  Rico, 
  

   Nov. 
  1, 
  1932, 
  by 
  R. 
  G. 
  Oakley. 
  

  

  Other 
  localities. 
  — 
  Puerto 
  Rico: 
  Lares, 
  September 
  1921, 
  G. 
  N. 
  Wol- 
  

   cott; 
  Arecibo, 
  June 
  17, 
  1932 
  (on 
  eggplant 
  leaf), 
  Anderson 
  and 
  Mills; 
  

   Mayaguez, 
  January 
  1899, 
  A. 
  Busck; 
  Villalba, 
  June 
  18, 
  1934, 
  C. 
  M. 
  

   Matos 
  (MCZ); 
  Mayaguez, 
  December 
  1932, 
  V. 
  Alexandrina 
  (MCZ). 
  

  

  Remarks. 
  — 
  The 
  shiny, 
  not 
  alutaceous 
  elytra, 
  the 
  larger 
  size, 
  and 
  the 
  

   broad, 
  almost 
  truncate 
  tip 
  of 
  the 
  aedeagus 
  are 
  unlike 
  the 
  Cuban 
  and 
  

   Jamaican 
  races 
  of 
  the 
  species. 
  

  

  Strabala 
  ferruginea 
  (Olivier) 
  

  

  Figure 
  17, 
  i 
  

  

  Altica 
  ferruginea 
  Olivier, 
  Entomologie 
  . 
  . 
  . 
  , 
  vol. 
  6, 
  p. 
  697, 
  1808. 
  

   Strabala 
  ferruginea 
  Chevrolat, 
  in 
  d'Orbigny, 
  Dictionnaire 
  universel 
  d'histoire 
  

   naturelle, 
  vol. 
  12, 
  p. 
  52, 
  1848. 
  

  

  Olivier's 
  description 
  of 
  the 
  scutellum 
  of 
  this 
  species 
  as 
  ferrugineous 
  

   would 
  differentiate 
  it 
  from 
  the 
  rest 
  of 
  the 
  West 
  Indian 
  species 
  even 
  if 
  

   he 
  had 
  not 
  given 
  the 
  type 
  locality 
  as 
  Santo 
  Domingo. 
  He 
  described 
  

   the 
  color 
  of 
  the 
  undersurface 
  as 
  black 
  and 
  this 
  agrees 
  with 
  many 
  of 
  

   the 
  specimens, 
  but 
  there 
  is 
  a 
  certain 
  variation 
  in 
  the 
  coloring, 
  some 
  

   specimens 
  being 
  entirely 
  ferrugineous 
  beneath, 
  others 
  with 
  dark 
  legs 
  

   and 
  reddish 
  breast 
  and 
  abdomen, 
  others 
  with 
  dark 
  legs, 
  breast, 
  and 
  

   abdomen. 
  Moreover 
  the 
  pronotum 
  and 
  elytra 
  are 
  finely 
  and 
  a 
  little 
  

   more 
  distinctly 
  punctate 
  than 
  in 
  Cuban 
  and 
  Jamaican 
  species 
  and 
  

   not 
  at 
  all 
  alutaceous. 
  The 
  aedeagus, 
  having 
  a 
  truncate 
  tip, 
  resembles 
  

   the 
  Puerto 
  Rican 
  specimens 
  more 
  than 
  the 
  Cuban 
  or 
  Jamaican. 
  

  

  