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Blake — Flea Beetles 
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Type female M.C.Z. Type No. 27802. 
Type locality. — Desbarriere, Mt. LaHotte, about 4000 
feet elevation, Haiti, collected Oct. 12-14, 1934, by P. J. 
Darlington. 
Remarks. — Tbis species is more convex than the other 
species of Pseudoepitrix from the West Indies, and it 
has short antennae and much coarser punctation, which 
near the suture of the elytra is confused. It may possibly 
belong to a different genus. 
Aphthona fraterna n. sp. 
Fig. 6 
About 2 mm. in length, ovate, shining reddish brown 
with yellow antennae having joints 6-9 black; elytra 
very finely striate punctate. 
Head with interocular space a little more than half its 
width, smoothly rounded over occiput, frontal tubercles 
indistinct, a narrow carina from between antennal sockets 
down to labrum, a lightly impressed line on either side of 
forehead running up from short sulcus near eye. Anten- 
nae scarcely reaching the middle of the elytra, joints 3 and 
4 subequal and shorter than 5, joints 6-9 black. Pro- 
thorax not twice as wide as long with obliquely cut anter- 
ior angles, only slightly curved, nearly straight sides, 
and basal margin forming an oblique angle near sides, 
disk polished, impunctate. Elytra polished, convex, with 
out depressions, with faintly striate punctation becoming 
indistinct at apex. Body beneath shining reddish brown, 
anterior coxal cavities open, hind tibiae sulcate, with a 
small spur at apex; claws simple. Length 1.8 mm.; 
width 1.2 mm. 
Type female, M.C.Z. Type No. 27803. 
Type locality. — Desbarriere, Mt. LaHotte, Haiti, near 
4000 ft., collected Oct. 12-14, 1934, by P. J. Darlington. 
Remarks. — This species is closely related to A. insolita 
Melsh. from North America and A. fulvipennis Jac. from 
Guatemala. All three are reddish brown beetles having 
the antennae pale with the outer joints in part dark. All 
have very lightly striate-punctate elytra. A. fulvipennis 
from its description appears to resemble A. insolita in the 
