1948] 
Blake — Flea Beetles 
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wide, gradually disappearing before the apex. Body 
beneath pale, shining beneath the short pale pubescence ; 
hind tibiae with small spur, first tarsal joint moderately 
long, claws appendiculate. Length 3.1 mm; width 1.6 
mm. 
Type male M.C.Z. Type No. 27800. 
Type locality. — Villalba, Puerto Rico, collected by C. 
M. Matos June 28, 1934, in the Stuart T. Danforth col- 
lection. 
Remarks. — There are two species from Central Amer- 
ica that have somewhat similar markings, — L. nigromacu- 
lata Jac. with four small basal spots and a large apical 
spot but with a pale undersurface and pale femora ; and L. 
variabilis Jac. which has two basal spots and two apical 
spots. The second species also has quite differently 
colored legs. 
Pseudoepitrix hottensis n. sp. 
Fig. 4 
About 2.5 mm. in length, elongate, shining reddish 
brown, outer joints of antennae and undersurface deeper 
brown in color; pronotum densely and rather coarsely 
punctate. 
Head with interocular space half its width, occiput 
rounded, not very shiny but finely alutaceous, a circle of 
fine punctures in front and over the indistinct tubercles, 
a sulcus running from antennal sockets up to eye ; anten- 
nal sockets situated about midway down front of head, 
lower front tapering. Antennae extending to the middle 
of the elytra, third joint shorter than fourth, last five 
joints darker. Prothorax not twice as wide as long with 
only slightly curved and nearly straight sides, having a 
prominent anterior angle under eye ; a well marked and 
somewhat sinuate basal depression; surface finely alu- 
taceous, somewhat shiny, moderately coarsely and densely 
punctate. Elytra with the striate punctures coarser in 
basal half, becoming fine at apex, basal callosities well 
marked and a transverse impression below them. Body 
beneath deeper brown, shining, lightly pubescent, legs 
yellow brown, tibiae not sulcate, first tarsal joint not so 
