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Acmaeodera cubaecola Duv. (Plate VII, fig. 6). 



This species, as was pointed out by Kerremans in his mono- 

 graph, is the one that we have for some time been calling A. 

 pulcherrima Duv. Mr. Fall in his synopsis had unfortunately 

 accepted the rather hasty determination of Mr. Linell. Mr. 

 Mutchler, of the American Museum of Natural History, who 

 called my attention to the above correction, likewise showed 

 me a Cuban specimen of the true A. pulcherrima Duv. which 

 is a very much larger species and quite differently marked, as 

 can be seen by referring to the splendid illustration given in 

 Kerremans' Monograph. The original description of Duval 

 tallies exactly. A. pulcherrima Duv. has, so far as I now, never 

 been taken in this country, but the beautiful orange-spotted 

 A. cubaecola Duv. has not only been captured in Cuba but on a 

 number of the Florida keys, as Key Largo, Key West and 

 Metacombe Key. The species that we have erroneously listed 

 as A. cubaecola Duv. is A. marginenotata Chev.® It is a Cuban 

 species, but it has also been taken on Key Largo and Meta- 

 combe Key, Florida. See Plate VII, fig. 7. 



Acmaeodera cribricoUis Horn. 



I have a typical specimen of this rare species in my collec- 

 tion, taken in the Imperial Valley, California, and have seen, 

 besides, the type from Texas, one other from Southern Ari- 

 zona. It is thus proven to be a species which has quite an ex- 

 tensive range along our Mexican border. , 



Explanation of Plate VII. 

 Figures of the right elytra of Acmaeodera (enlarged) : 

 No. I. Acmaeodera sinuata n. sp. typical. 

 No. 2. Acmaeodera sinuata n, sp. variety. 

 No. 3. Acmaeodera sinuata var. sex-notata n. subsp. • 

 No. 4. Acmaeodera wenzeli n. sp. 

 No. 5. Acmaeodera wheeleri n. sp. 

 No. 6. Acmaeodera cubaecola Duv. 

 No. 7. Acmaeodera marqinenotata Chev. 

 No. 8. Acmaeodera pubiventris Horn. 

 No. 9. Acmaeodera pubii/entris var. lanata Horn. 



6 "Coleopteres de i'lle de Cuba. — Famille de Buprestides, Throscides, 

 Eucnemides et Elaterides," par 'M. Aug. Chevrolat, Anns. Ent. Soc. Fr., 

 Vol. vii (1867), p. 583- 



