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111. Apenes sulcicollis (J.-Duv.) 
112. Apenes parallela (Dej.) 
113. Apenes (s. s.) delicata n. sp. 
Form as usual in sinuata group ; rather broad, depressed ; 
aeneous black with more or less piceous tinge; elytra each 
with humeral spot (extending inward to about fifth stria, 
back about a fifth of elytral length) and together with a 
rather broad, undulate transverse supapical fascia yellow: 
appendages brownish yellow. Head with front not dis- 
tinctly alutaceous, very finely and sparsely punctate, not 
strigulose; antennse short,,, middle joints scarcely longer 
than wide. Prothorax about a third wider than long (by 
measurement) subcordate; sides briefly sinuate before the 
basal angles, which are minutely almost right ; disk alutace- 
ous and with very fine sparse punctuation and indistinct 
transverse strigulation. Elytra with striae moderate, not 
punctate; scutellar stria long; intervals flat or (externally) 
slightly convex, heavily alutaceous ; third interval with two 
rather broadly but shallowly impressed setigerous punc- 
tures about a fourth from base and near middle. Length 
+ 5-5V2 mm. 
Holotype $ (Museum of Comparative Zoology no. 19534) 
and 3 paratypes from Soledad (near Cienfuegos) Cuba, 
June 27 (G. Salt), Oct. 18-Nov. 7; 3 paratypes (United 
States National Museum) from Cayamas, Sta. Clara, Cuba, 
Mar. 15, May 20, and Dec. 26, E. A. Schwarz; 1 paratype 
from Cuba, Poey Collection no. 822 (Philadelphia Academy 
of Sciences). One of my specimens was taken by sifting in 
woodland, another in a flooded plowed field. 
This species is near sinuata Say of the United States, but 
is smaller, with head much less punctate. It answers 
rather well to the description of lunulata Chd. of Yucatan, 
but M. Rene Oberthur, who has been kind enough to com- 
pare a specimen of the Cuban species with Chaudoir’s type, 
writes that the latter is considerably larger, with a broader 
thorax and more elongate humeral mark. 
