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Psyche 
I December 
Indian species. It is the first species of Metachroma to be 
described from Dominica. It resembles several North Amer- 
ican species of Metachroma (such as M. pallidum Say) 
but has a less coarsely punctate head and prothorax, and 
in those species the prothorax is usually a deeper reddish 
brown in color. 
Metachroma nanum new species 
Figure 5 
About 3 mm. in length, oblong oval, shining, the elytra 
distinctly striate punctate, yellow brown without darker 
markings except brownish mouthparts. 
Head with interocular space half its width, lightly but 
densely punctate over occiput, a groove about inner margin 
of eyes and a transverse line between antennal sockets; 
jaws large and deeper brown in color. Antennae entirely 
pale, not extending to the middle of the elytra. Prothorax 
moderately convex with arcuate sides, surface shining, 
very indistinctly punctate, entirely pale. Elytra with intra- 
humeral sulcus accentuated by row of punctures, and the 
depression below basal callosity having coarser punctures 
there, the striate punctation becoming gradually finer and 
evanescent at apex; surface very shiny, entirely pale yel- 
low brown. Body and legs entirely pale, the usual emargin- 
ation near apex of middle and hind tibiae. Length 3 mm.; 
width 1.6 mm. 
Type, female, U.S.N.M. Type No. 64534, collected by Kline 
on guava (Psidium guajava) , May 31, 1951, in Puerto Rico. 
Remarks. — This is approximately the size of the Cuban 
species, M. lituratum Suffrian, but lacks the dark markings, 
and is also more distinctly punctate on the elytra. 
Metachroma multipunctatum new species 
Figure 6 
Between 5.5 and 6.5 mm. in length, broadly oblong oval, 
very shiny, the pronotum finely punctate, the elytra with 
large, closely set, striate punctures throughout; two of 
the four specimens deep chocolate brown with a large 
piceous spot on either side of pronotum and a row of three 
dark spots across the base of each elytron and one below 
the humerus and another in middle below that and an ir- 
