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New Oedemerid Beetle 
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three-quarters as wide as widest part and sides slightly 
sinuate before basal angles, which are not prominent. 
Elytra one-quarter ( $ ) to one-half ( $ ) wider than pro- 
thorax. Length 6. 5. -8.0 ; width 1.9-2. 4 mm. 
Holotype $ (M. C. Z. no. 22464) (sex determined by 
dissection) and 4 paratypes from Janoru (Camaguey Pro- 
vince), Cuba, May 27, 1931, “taken on weeds” by L. C. 
Scaramuzza ; 1 paratype from about 3,000 ft. altitude near 
Buenos Aires, Trinidad Mts. (Santa Clara Province), Cuba, 
May 8-14, 1936, taken by myself on an unidentified flower- 
ing tree. 
The coloration of this beautiful Oedemerid is unique, so 
far as I have been able to find by an examination of the 
descriptions of all known West Indian and many Central 
American species, and an examination of North American 
species in the Leconte Collection. The color at once dis- 
tinguishes thonalmus from the commoner Cuban Copidita 
testaceicollis (Jac.-Duval) (de la Sagra’s Histoire . . . de 
Cuba , [Vol. 7] Animaux ArticuMs, 1857, p. 158), which 
has similar generic characters but is smaller, black, with 
vaguely bluish or greenish elytra and yellowish prothorax. 
The only other Oedemerid recorded from Cuba, Asclera 
latior Pic (Melanges exot.-ent. fasc. 40, 1923 p. 32), is 
not known to me, but is described as similar in color to 
testaceicollis. 
