1950] 
Blake — Flea Beetles 
15 
Homoschema hoffmani n. sp. 
Fig. 10 
From 2. 5-3. 2 mm. in length, 1.5-1. 8 mm. in width, mod- 
erately convex, thorax and elytra smooth with fine punctation 
seen only under high magnification ; antennae, head, thorax 
and legs reddish yellow, breast and abdomen dark, scutellum 
often dark, elytra violaceous. Area between antennal sockets 
moderately broad and convex, and extending down the short 
lower front, with a depression on either side below- the antennal 
sockets. 
Type.— Male, and 2 paratypes, U. S. N. M. Cat. No. 59192. 
Type locality. — Bizoton, Haiti, Nov., 1925, collected on 
Stigmatophyllum lingulatum, by W. A. Hoffman. 
Other localities. — Camp Perrin, W. A. Hoffman, 1925; Mt. 
Trou d’Eau, Nov., 1934, P. J. Darlington; Manneville, Nov. 
16—17, 1934, P. J. Darlington; Cape Haitien, W. M. Mann; 
Port au Prince, all Haiti. 
Remarks — The distinguishing characters of this species are 
the dark coloring of the undersurface and the exceedingly long- 
narrow point at the tip of the aedeagus, the latter unlike any 
other known in the genus. 
Homoschema leucurum n. sp. 
Fig. 12 
From 2.7—3 mm. in length, 1.4— 1.7 mm,, in width, prothorax 
with a slight depression on either side at base ; very faintly and 
finely punctate, reddish yellow with deep violaceous elytra 
having a pale apex. Head with a short elevated area between 
antennal sockets, lower front flattish. 
Type. — Male, and 5 paratypes, U. S. N. M. Cat. No. 59193; 
1 paratype in Museum of Comparative Zoology, Type No. 
28238. 
Type locality. — La Vanneau, Haiti, June, 1925, collected by 
W. A. Hoffman, on Bunchosia glandulosa. 
Remarks. — This is the only one of the genus with a pale tip 
on the elytra. Another unusual feature is a slight depression 
on either side at the base of the prothorax. 
