﻿CHRYSOMELID 
  GENUS 
  STRABALA 
  CHEVROLAT 
  — 
  BLAKE 
  133 
  

  

  Distribution. 
  — 
  Haiti: 
  La 
  Vanneau, 
  June 
  1920, 
  Bizotan, 
  Nov. 
  3, 
  

   1925, 
  Diguini, 
  Apr. 
  14, 
  1925, 
  all 
  collected 
  by 
  W. 
  A. 
  Hoffman; 
  Grande 
  

   Riviere, 
  W. 
  M. 
  Mann; 
  He 
  de 
  la 
  Tortue, 
  April 
  1929, 
  E. 
  C. 
  and 
  G. 
  M. 
  

   Leonard; 
  Port-au-Prince 
  and 
  vicinity, 
  October 
  1934, 
  P. 
  J. 
  Darlington 
  

   (MCZ); 
  Miragoane, 
  October, 
  November, 
  P. 
  J. 
  Darlington 
  (MCZ); 
  

   Carrefour, 
  May 
  1-3, 
  1908, 
  M. 
  Cameron 
  (British 
  Museum). 
  Dominican 
  

   Republic: 
  August 
  Busck; 
  Macoris, 
  Mar. 
  26, 
  1913, 
  P. 
  G, 
  Russell; 
  Puerto 
  

   Plata, 
  Hurst 
  (MCZ); 
  Santiago, 
  1938, 
  P. 
  J. 
  Darlington 
  (MCZ) 
  

   Slinchez, 
  July 
  1938, 
  P. 
  J. 
  Darlington 
  (MCZ). 
  

  

  Strabala 
  intermedia 
  Jacquelin 
  Du 
  Val 
  

  

  Figure 
  17, 
  I 
  

  

  Strabala 
  intermedia 
  Jacquelin 
  Du 
  Val, 
  in 
  Ram6n 
  de 
  la 
  Sagra, 
  Historia 
  . 
  . 
  . 
  de 
  la 
  

   Isla 
  de 
  Cuba 
  (Spanish 
  ed.), 
  vol. 
  7, 
  p. 
  129, 
  1857. 
  

  

  In 
  coloring, 
  three 
  old 
  specimens 
  in 
  the 
  Museum 
  of 
  Comparative 
  

   Zoology 
  labeled 
  "Cuba" 
  resemble 
  Jacquelin 
  Du 
  Val's 
  short 
  description. 
  

   They 
  are 
  deep 
  yellowish 
  brown 
  with 
  dark 
  antennae, 
  dark 
  scutellum, 
  

   dark 
  tibiae 
  and 
  tarsi; 
  the 
  anterior 
  femora 
  and 
  the 
  apex 
  of 
  the 
  pos- 
  

   terior 
  femora 
  are 
  dark. 
  In 
  size 
  they 
  are 
  slightly 
  larger 
  than 
  the 
  

   measurements 
  given 
  for 
  S. 
  intermedia; 
  instead 
  of 
  being 
  3% 
  mm. 
  they 
  

   are 
  4.5 
  to 
  5.5 
  mm. 
  in 
  length. 
  In 
  two, 
  both 
  females, 
  the 
  basal 
  thoracic 
  

   sulcus 
  is 
  pronounced, 
  almost 
  like 
  that 
  of 
  a 
  true 
  Lactica, 
  but 
  in 
  the 
  third 
  

   specimen, 
  a 
  male, 
  the 
  depression 
  along 
  the 
  base 
  is 
  less 
  marked. 
  The 
  

   surface 
  is 
  faintly 
  alutaceous 
  and 
  iBnely 
  punctate. 
  In 
  aU 
  three 
  speci- 
  

   mens 
  the 
  head 
  is 
  rather 
  densely 
  punctate 
  in 
  addition 
  to 
  the 
  circle 
  

   of 
  depressed 
  punctures 
  near 
  the 
  eye. 
  The 
  coloring 
  of 
  these 
  specimens 
  

   is 
  more 
  like 
  that 
  of 
  the 
  North 
  American 
  species. 
  The 
  aedeagus, 
  

   although 
  essentially 
  the 
  same 
  as 
  in 
  all 
  the 
  others, 
  is 
  distinctive 
  in 
  

   being 
  slightly 
  constricted 
  behind 
  the 
  tip 
  as 
  in 
  the 
  Mexican 
  and 
  Central 
  

   American 
  species 
  S. 
  rotunda, 
  but 
  differs 
  in 
  having 
  a 
  more 
  acute 
  tip. 
  

  

  Strabala 
  colomhiana, 
  new 
  species 
  

  

  Figure 
  17, 
  k 
  

  

  From 
  5 
  to 
  6 
  mm. 
  in 
  length, 
  oblong 
  oval, 
  deep 
  reddish 
  brown, 
  the 
  

   antennae, 
  breast, 
  abdomen, 
  and 
  legs 
  dark, 
  shining, 
  not 
  alutaceous, 
  

   very 
  finely, 
  and 
  the 
  elytra 
  rather 
  densely, 
  punctate. 
  

  

  Head 
  usually 
  entirely 
  deep 
  reddish 
  brown, 
  shining, 
  with 
  scattered 
  

   fine 
  punctures 
  over 
  occiput 
  and 
  the 
  usual 
  depressed 
  circle 
  of 
  punctiu-es 
  

   or 
  fovea 
  near 
  eye. 
  Antennae 
  short, 
  dark, 
  the 
  two 
  basal 
  joints 
  paler. 
  

   Prothorax 
  shiny, 
  finely 
  punctate, 
  a 
  depressed 
  line 
  near 
  base. 
  Scutel- 
  

   lum 
  dark. 
  Elytra 
  shiny, 
  very 
  finely 
  and 
  indistinctly 
  punctate. 
  Body 
  

   beneath 
  with 
  breast 
  and 
  abdomen 
  deep 
  piceous, 
  legs 
  dark. 
  Length 
  

   5 
  to 
  6 
  mm.; 
  width 
  2.8 
  to 
  3.2 
  mm. 
  

  

  