Species of the American Genus Aaty] us. 361 



32. Astylus antillaruiii. 

 Astylus antillarum, Gorli. P. Z. S. 1898, p. 328, t. 27. fig. 7 (d"). 



cJ, Metastenium with two, curvetl, outwaidly-direckd, 

 deiitit'orm processes arising from a tumid space in the middle 

 behind. Ventral segment 5 deeply arcualo-emargiiiate, 

 6 h)ng, compressed (subcyliudrical as seen in profile with 

 the terminal dorsal segment). 



Ilu}>. Antilles, St. Vincent. 



Describtul from a single pair — the c? "ow in the British 

 Mu.seum, the $ having passed into Pic's collection, from that 

 of Gorham. The ? has the apices of the elytra deeply 

 excised, as in the same sex of the allied forms. The spots 

 arc too red in the i)ublislied figure. 



33. Astylus gorhami. 

 S , Astytus gorhami, Pic, M<Slau<,'es exot.-eutom. xii. p. 8 ( Jau, 1915). 



Elongate, moderately shining, clotiied with long, erect, 

 black bristly hairs intermixed with scattered fine, ad- 

 pressed, cinereous pubescence, the latter somewhat con- 

 •spicuous along the elytral suture in ?, tlie vestiture of tiie 

 legs and under surface long, einereous ; black, the antennal 

 joints more or less rufescent externally or at their base, the 

 elytra each with a pyriforni patch on the disc at the base, a 

 mesial ly-constricted, apical ly widened, elongate streak on 

 the disc below this, a subqnadrate patch near the tip, and 

 the outer margin in great part, orange-yellow ; the head and 

 prothorax densely, finely punctate, the latter with coarser, 

 punctures intermixed, the elytra re uglily punctured, smoother 

 in the depressed juxta-sutural area in ? . Head long, narrow, 

 subroslrate; antennai short, joints 7-10 transverse in ?. 

 Prothorax about as long as broad, narrowed anteriorly. 

 Elytra long, sharply margined, costate laterally from the 

 humeral callus to the common transverse apical depression, 

 and with a faint costa on the disc also, the space between 

 this and the suture and another within the outer ridge longi- 

 tudinally depressed, conspicuously so in ? ; the apices blunt 

 or subtruncate in (J,' and deeply semicircularly excavate (the 

 sutural and outer angles thus appearing sharply dentate) 

 in ? . 



cJ . Metasternum with two compressed, curved, outwardly 

 directed dentiloini processes arising from a tumid space in 

 the middle behind. Ventral segment 5 as long as 3 and 4 



