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Psyche 
[December 
pubescence. Anterior femora toothed. Length 4.3 mm. ; 
width 2.6 mm. 
Type , male, U.S.N.M. Type No. 64531, from Ciudamar, 
Oriente Province, Cuba, collected in July 1953 by Fernando 
de Zayas and Pastor Alayo. One other specimen, a female, 
from Daiquiri, Oriente Province, collected in March 1955 
by Zayas. 
Remarks. — There are several species of Chalcosicya in 
Cuba, but this differs from C. maestrensis , rotunda, and 
nana by having the anterior femora toothed, from C. 
parsoni in being black, not green, from ditrichota in its 
more rounded form and differently shaped aedeagus. The 
second specimen from Daiquiri, in Zayas’ collection, is a 
female, but I believe the same species. 
Metachroma zayasi new species 
Figure 2 
About 4.5 mm. in length, broadly oblong oval, lustrous 
black with the antennae, tarsi and body beneath deep 
brown ; the elytra with the striate punctation most devel- 
oped in area about basal callosity and becoming faint at 
base and after the middle of the elytra. 
Head with interocular space about one-third width of 
head, occiput finely punctate, a short median line down 
vertex and the usual groove about inner margin of eyes, 
lower front more densely and coarsely punctate; head 
shining above and becoming alutaceous in lower front, the 
mouthparts deep brown. Antennae not extending to the mid- 
dle of the elytra, the outer joints slightly wider than the 
basal, deep brown. Prothorax nearly twice as wide as long 
at its widest with arcuate sides, convex, lustrous, finely 
punctate. Scutellum deep brown. Elytra lustrous black, the 
striate punctation not very distinct over basal callosity 
but becoming large in depression below and in intrahumeral 
sulcus, then becoming indistinct after the middle of the 
elytra. Body beneath shining deep brown or piceous with 
the tarsal joints paler brown. Length 4.5 mm ; width 2.5 mm 
Type, male, U.S.N.M. No. 64536, from Sierra del Cristal, 
Oriente Province, Cuba, collected in May 1955 by Fernando 
de Zayas. 
