124 i\fr. M. Cameron on new Stapliylinidfo 



pubescent. Abdomen pointed, tlie posterior margins of the 

 second to the fifth segments narrowly black, and presenting 

 a row of contiguous short obloug impressions, so that the 

 margin appears crenulate. 



St. Lucia. Type iu my collection. 



O L 1 GOT I N I. 



6i. Oligota {Holobus) laxata, sp. n. 

 (Fauvel, in lilt.) 



Minute, black, shining, convex. Auteunrc short, the club 

 3-jointed. Antenutc and legs entirely yellow. 



Length "75 mm. 



Smaller and less robust than 0. centralis, Slip., and 

 differs also in the club of the antennse being more slender, 

 the practically impunctate thorax, and the much more 

 sparing puncturation of the elytra. 



Grenada (H. H. Smith). Type in the British Museum. 



65. Oligota {Holobus) smithi, sp. n. 

 (Fauvel, in Hit.) 



Minute, black, shining, convex ; the antennrc, legs, and last 

 two segments of the abdomen yellow. Antennae short, the 

 club 3-jointed. 



Length '75 mm. 



Size and build of the preceding, but at once distinguished 

 from it by the bright yellow apex of the abdomen ; the 

 thorax is, moreover, quite distinctly (though very finely) and 

 pretty closely punctured, and the elytra much more closely 

 punctured. 



Grenada {H. H. Smith). Type in the British Museum. 



66. Oligota (s. str.) maculicornis, sp. n. 



Shining, castaneous. Antennae with 3-jointed club, the 

 eighth and ninth joints black, the remainder testaceous. 

 Legs testaceous. 



Length 1 mm. 



Build of O. atomaria, Er., but of a uniform light chestnut- 

 brown colour. 



Head exceedingly finely and sparingly punctured and 

 pubescent. Antennae short, the first and second joints of 

 equal length, the third to the sixth very small, moniliform, 

 the seventh slightly transverse, the eighth and ninth much 

 broader than the preceding, about two and a half times as 

 broad as long, the tenth short, oval. Maxillary palpi pitchy. 



