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Psyche 
[Sept. 
to end shortly before the apex. Body beneath shining 
yellowish or reddish with dark brown abdomen, very 
finely pubescent. Hind tibiae with a short spur, first 
tarsal joint of hind legs long, claws appendicnlate. 
Length 2. 6-2.9 mm. ; width 1.5-1. 6 mm. 
Type male M.C.Z. Type No. 27799 and four paratypes, 
1 in the U.S.N.M. Cat. No. 58725. 
Type locality. — Mt. Diego de Ocampo, circa 3 — 4000 ft. 
elevation, Dominican Republic, collected in July 1938 by 
P. J. Darlington. 
Remarks . — The extremely indistinct sulcus on the pro- 
thorax of many of the specimens at first confuses one as 
to the generic place of this beetle, but Lactica seems to be 
the genus to which it most closely corresponds. 
Lactica megaspila n. sp. 
Fig. 5 
About 3 mm. in length, oblong ovate, shining, yellow 
brown, antennae with the outer joints dark, elytra with 
four large dark spots having a greenish lustre, two at base 
and the other two at the apex of the elytra. 
Head rather deeper brown on the occiput, possibly with 
aenous lustre in some specimens, densely and obsoletely 
punctate with a few larger punctures on inner side near 
the eye ; frontal tubercles well marked with a depression 
above, the space between the antennal sockets a little 
produced; lower front rather short; interocular space 
over half the width of the head. Antennae extending to 
the middle of the elytra, third joint shorter than the 
fourth, remainder subequal, the three basal joints paler. 
Prothorax not twice as broad as long, moderately convex 
with a wide explanate margin on sides and a clearly 
marked basal sulcus deepest at limiting ends; surface 
finely punctate. Elytra shining yellow brown, each with 
a basal and larger apical spot, the basal spot extending 
nearly across the base, the apical spot extending from the 
middle almost to the apex, in the apical spot an aeneous 
lustre ; a short intrahumeral sulcus and depression behind 
the basal callosity ; surface shining, very faintly punctate, 
a wide explanate margin along the sides. Epipleura 
