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New West Indian Carabidse 
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Structurally, imitatrix differs in having the prothorax 
slightly narrower, about a fourth wider than long (by mea- 
surement), with sides of base more oblique and posterior 
angles more obtuse, though preceded by a slight sinuation 
of the sides; in having the humeri more evenly rounded; 
in having the elytral striae practically obliterated, faintly 
indicated only in favorable light; and in lacking the anter- 
ior dorsal puncture of each elytron. The position of the 
puncture (about a fifth from base) is usually indicated by a 
faint, broad, indefinite, unpunctiform impression, without 
a seta. The extreme basal ocellate puncture and the two 
posterior pairs of setigerous punctures, about a fourth and 
a twelfth from apex, are present. Length +41/2-5 mm. 
Holotype $ (United States National Museum) and 2 
( $ $ ) paratypes (1 in Museum of Comparative Zoology, 
no. 19531) from Cayamas, Sta. Clara, Cuba, March 3, E. 
A. Schwarz ; 1 paratype from Cuba, Poey Collection no. 954 
(Philadelphia Academy of Sciences). 
The color pattern at once distinguishes this species from 
all previously known ones except the preceding. 
100. Phloeoxena schwarzi n. sp. 
Broad, but less so than the two preceding species; de- 
pressed; piceous black, head and prothorax slightly shin- 
ing but with reticulate microsculpture ; elytra duller, 
opaque ; below piceous, rufescent medially ; appendages tes- 
taceous. Head bi-impressed anteriorly, front with median 
impression or puncture. Prothorax subquadrate, a quarter 
to a third wider than long (by measurement), sides slightly 
sinuate before the posterior angles, which would be right 
except are narrowly rounded; side margins narrow anter- 
iorly, broader posteriorly ; basal foveae broad but poorly de- 
fined. Elytra visibly but very shallowly striate; striae 
formed as usual in genus by slight, broad undulations of the 
surface; each elytron with three dorsal punctures as in 
plagiata. Length +41/2-5 mm. 
Holotype $ (United States National Museum) and 3 
(n ?) paratypes (pair in Museum of Comparative 
