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teeth fine, piceons, the bristles fine; wrinkles of the lateral lobes indis- 

 tinct aiid tlat, the surface with a very few obsolete, minute punctures; 

 tvlus percarreut, slightly convex, depressed behind the middle. An- 

 tennjB pale ocherous or ferruginous ; first joint stout, reaching a little 

 beyond the margin of the liead ; second slender, shorter, a little shorter 

 than the third ; the third increasing toward the tip, subequal to the 

 fourth; the fourth and fifth fusiform, the latter longest. Rostrum ex- 

 tending to the intermediate coxte, pale ocherous. Pronotum highly 

 polished, subquadrate, wider than long, the sides a little obliquely nar- 

 rowing anteriorly, remotely ciliated, widely deflected over the pleurae, 

 more or less tinged with rufous on the sides and posteriorly ; anterior 

 margin moderately emargiuated, the coUum obsolete, with an indented 

 point each side and next the anterior angles ; anterior lobe a little 

 convex, impunctate, excepting on the sides, the transverse line feeble, 

 placed far behind the middle, set with a few fine, remote punctures, 

 and with a few fine punctures behind it; posterior margin almost 

 straight, hardly sinuated near the humeri, the latter a little prominent, 

 the angles nearly rectangular. Scutellum flat, longer than wide, con- 

 tracted before the tip, the tip narrow, depressed, bearing a few indis- 

 tinct punctures ; the surface coarsely, very remotely punctate, except- 

 ing on the base; the suture next the freuum very minutely punctate. 

 Legs ocherous, or pale rufo-flavous, the tarsi paler yellow ; femora with 

 two rows of setigerous punctures on the under side. Coriura with fine, 

 scattered punctures around the sides and ends; costal margin with one 

 setigerouspit near the base; the sutures more coarsely, evenly punctate ; 

 membrane tinged with brown. Sides of the posterior margins of the 

 ventral segments minutely rastrated and denticulated. 



Length 5.^-G^ millimeters. Width of base of prouotum 2-2^ milli- 

 m eters. 



Inhabits Cub;i, and has been collected in various parts of the island, 



by Prof. Poey and Mr. Oliarles Wrigiit. Sjuthern Florida, Dr. E. 



Palmer. 



Cryptopoeus, new genus. 



Subquadrate-oval. Head wider than long, a little bluntly rounded, 

 hilt, with two or three obsolete wrinkles each side, a pit near the tip of 

 each lateral lobe, a less distinct one next each eye, and the posterior 

 surface each side sunken; margins much reflexed, toothed and ciliated ; 

 the tylus a little shorter than the lateral lobes, and the lobes curved 

 almost in contact in front of it. Antenna? short and stout, the basal 

 joint barely reaching the anterior margin; second joint slender, scarcely 

 as long as tlie third, the tliird subconioal, a little shorter than the fourth ; 

 iourth and fifth subfusifonn, nearly equal, longer than the third. Buc- 

 culai long, narrow, rough, inclosing the whole of the basal joint ; ros- 

 trum of medium length, second joint longest, a little compressed, third 

 longer than the fourth. Prosteruum raised and grooved, the lateral 

 plates short, a little arched. Prouotum transverse^ subquadrate, a little 



