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Psyche 
[June-Sept. 
In the last mentioned series there are, besides smooth 
females, also reticulate female specimens approaching the 
typical female form with ridges and lateral depression on the 
elytra. In all these series the size is on the average a little 
less than in the specimens from Furcy, a yellowish longi- 
tudinal spot is more evident on the pygidium, and in the 
males the anterior tibiae and tarsi are less strongly 
developed. 
The male genitalia in G. vulneratus are of a very singular 
form : the oedeagus is very short and broad, the apical part 
bent upwards, bottonlike, and joined to the base by a keeled 
longitudinal ridge. 
Chevrolat (1863, Ann. Soc. Ent. France (4) 3, p. 203) 
mentions G. vulneratus from Cuba; perhaps he confused it 
with the following species. 
Gyretes darlingtoni sp. nov. 
Length 5-5.5 mm. Oval, hardly elongate, posteriorly 
attenuate, very convex. Surface shining, black, slightly 
brassy ; lateral margin brownish, very narrow on prothorax 
and at base of elytra, much wider and more yellowish to- 
wards apex of latter; pygidium yellowish, with two short 
black longitudinal stripes at the base ; body beneath rufous, 
anal segment and epipleurae yellowish. Labrum rufous or 
yellowish, transverse, anteriorly rounded and brightly 
ciliated, surface slightly reticulated, posteriorly at the sides 
deeply punctured and bristly. Clypeus well defined, with 
dispersed punctures, a narrow anterior margin smooth, pos- 
teriorly strongly reticulate, with short transverse meshes. 
Reticulation less strongly impressed on the head anteriorly 
and becoming still more superficial towards the vertex, 
nearly invisible on the prothorax and very fine and most 
transverse on the elytra; in the $ there is a longitudinal 
area of strongly impressed nearly round meshes on the last 
% of each elytron, on which longitudinal striae are some- 
times indistinctly marked. Tomentous border of the pro- 
thorax reaching opposite middle of eye anteriorly, obliquely 
narrowed and hardly half as wide posteriorly ; still narrower 
on the base of elytra, regularly and moderately broadened 
from the humeral part for about % of the length of elytra, 
thence more strongly bent inwards and reaching the trunca- 
