1898.] SEEEICOEN COLEOPTEBA OE ST. TINCENT. 323 



ASTXLTTS ANTILLABUM, Sp. D. (Plate XXVII. fig. 7, c? •) 



Astylo octopustulato Gorli. similis et affinis at major, niger, eapite 

 jirothoraceque subtiliter, elytris crebre rugose punctatis ; his 

 maculis trihus, margiiiibus cum macula magna subquadrata sub- 

 apicali conjunctis, saturate aurantiacis, costa subhiimerali nigra, 

 et marginibus rejiexis subexplanatis. Long. 10 millim. S $ . 



Mas, elytrorum apicibus truncatis. 



Femina, elytrorxim apicibus profimde excisis. 



Hab. St. A^incent : leeward side {H. H. Smith). 



Head subi'ostate, thickly and finely punctured, antennse with 

 the basal five joints rufous ; thorax very even and smooth, a good 

 deal narrowed in front, and with deflexed sides and front angles, 

 finely, thickly, and confluently punctured. The elytra are more 

 thickly punctured and less rugose at the base than towards the 

 apex ; the entire red margin and the apex in the female are 

 somewhat expanded ; each bears tliree irregular spots — one on the 

 base pear-shaped with the pointed end towards the apex, nearly 

 glabrous, but with a few scattered fine points, two others in a line 

 and equidistant from the suture, not round as in A. octopmstulatus, 

 but rather oblique, and with faint indications of a costate interstice 

 passing through them; the apical spot is much larger than in 

 A. octopustulatus, squarish and united to the red margin. The 

 submarginal costa is distinct, and terminates in the last black 

 fascia. This beautiful insect is allied to, but amply distinct from, 

 A. octopustulatus Gorh. 1. c. p. 330, a species I'rom Panama, where 

 the genus apparently reaches its northern limit : it is larger, more 

 deeply marked with orange-red, more coarsely punctured ; the 

 antennte are longer, the spots are not nearly round as in that 

 insect. 



Only one pair were obtained. 



EbjEus. 



Ebcms, Erichson, Entomographien, p. 113 ; Gorh. Biol. C.-Am., 

 Col. iii. pt. 2, p. 120. 



Eb^TJS IflGBOOiEErLEUS, sp. n. 



Ebseo seminulo Er. persimilis et statura ci'qualis, niger ; elytris 



subccerulescentibus, subtilissime subcoriaceis, nitidis ; antennis 



nigris, articulo basali subtus et secunclo jlavis ; capite prothorace- 



que glabris, nitidis. Long. f-l| millim. 



Hob. St. Vincent : windward and leeward side and south end 



{H. H. Smith). 



This minute Melyrid is so closely allied to the insects recorded 

 in the ' Biologia C.-Am.' as E. semhmlum and E. minimum Erichs., 

 from Guatemala, that it is sufficient to refer to the differences, 

 which are in the broader elytra, and the blacker legs and antennte, 

 and in the bluer tint of the elytra. 



About a dozen examples were obtained, all in St. Vincent, where 

 it is apparently common. 



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