TAXONOMIC STUDY OF MORDELLIDAE — RAY 313 



'Remarks. — The type and seven female paratypes were collected at 

 Ponce, Puerto Rico, August 7, 1933, on flowers of Randia mitis 

 (R. G. Oakley). Another female paratype, from the same locality, 

 was taken on August 8, 1935 (R. G. Oakley). Since six of the speci- 

 mens have protruding genitalia and all are alike in other respects, 

 I am obliged to consider them as apparently all females. 



The markings on the elytra vary considerably in both width of 

 fasciae and depth of color. In one specimen they are visible only 

 when turned at an angle to the disk. 



Genus ANTHOBATULA Strand 



Anthobatula Strand, Acta Univ. Latviensis, vol. 20, p. 23, 1929. 



Anthohates LeConte, nee Gistel, in Agassiz and Cabot, Lake Superior, p. 231, 



1850. 

 Pentaria Mulsant, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, ser. 2, vol. 3, p. 391, 439, 1856. 



ANTHOBATULA MULTIPILIS, new species 



In Champion's key to the Central American species of Pemtaria 

 (1891, p. 252) this species runs to fiavipes Champion (1891, p. 253). 

 It may be separated from that member of the genus, however, by 

 the unicolorous antennae, which do not have the distal segments 

 transverse, in the color of the ventral surface and legs, and in the 

 broader form of the body. A. multipilis is not closely allied to any 

 of the North American members of the genus. 



Length : 2.1 mm. Form oblong-ovate, rounded anteriorly and pos- 

 teriorly, broadest near middle of elytra. Derm piceous, dull, apex 

 of front, clypeus, metasternum, abdomen, legs, and antennae casta- 

 neous, maxillary palpi and genitalia flavous. Body densely covered 

 with fine, short, recumbent pubescence, silvery on dorsal surface, par- 

 taking of ground color ventrally. 



Antennae 0.7 mm. long, reaching intermediate coxae; segments 

 3-6 equal; 7-10 each twice as long as 5 but slightly broader; 11 

 slightly longer and narrower than 10, sides straight, apex rounded. 

 Distal segment of maxillary palpi enlarged, with form of an elon- 

 gate, scalene triangle, basal and apical angles acute, mesal angle 

 obtuse, all rounded, sides straight, except apical fifth of lateral 

 margin, which is distinctly rounded. Pronotum one-half broader 

 than long (0.9 by 0.6 mm.), sides and apex broadly rounded in a 

 single continuous curve, basal angles obtuse, base arcuate, midbasal 

 lobe very short, but rounded. Scutellum subtriangular, sides and 

 apical angle rounded. Elytra but one-half longer than broad (1.5 

 by 1 mm.), sides visibly rounded, broadest postmedially, apices 

 individually rounded; surface completely covered with numerous, 

 fine, transverse strigae. Intermediate and posterior tibiae approxi- 



