1952] 
Blake — Megistops 
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Head pale yellow brown with dark mouthparts, eyes al- 
most meeting on occiput. Antennae brownish, the three 
basal joints paler beneath. Prothorax not quite twice 
so broad as long, narrowed anteriorly and with thickened 
apical angles ; pale yellow, in some specimens, with faint 
traces of five spots, faintly and shallowly punctate. Elytra 
rather flat, feebly shining and finely alutaceous with ob- 
solete fine punctures ; pale yellow brown with deeper 
brown markings in the shape of a sutural vitta often 
uniting with a shorter subsutural one, and also with the 
wide irregular lateral-marginal one before the apex, an- 
other even shorter median vitta uniting a little below the 
middle with the lateral marginal darkening. Body beneath 
often deeper brown except the pale abdomen and legs; in 
dark specimens apical half of hind femora deep brown. 
Length 3 — 3.7 mm. ; width 1.5 — 1.8 mm. 
Type data. — Holotype male and 28 paratypes (U.S.N.M. 
Cat. No. 60,930), 2 paratypes in M.C.Z. (No. 28,691), all 
collected by R. G. Oakley on Tabebuia sp. June 25, 1934, at 
Guanica, Puerto Rico. 
Other material. — In U.S.N.M. collected by R. G. Oakley 
on Tabebuia sp. Oct. 4, 1933, and on Scirpus validus Sept. 
29, 1933, both at Ponce, and on Clusia rosea by Martorell 
April 2, 1940, near Rio Piedras; in M.C.Z. one specimen 
collected by C. M. Matos at Guanica in the Stuart T. Dan- 
forth collection. 
Remarks. — At first the beetles would seem to be a more 
heavily marked race of M. liturata Oliv., a species occurring 
in Hispaniola, but dissection reveals an entirely differently 
shaped aedeagus. M. liturata also appears to be a little 
broader with more granular surface. M. tabebuiae from 
Puerto Rico also feeds on Tabebuia but the two beetles 
are not at all alike either in their external appearance or 
in their aedeagi, M. tabebuiae usually being dark reddish 
brown to piceous, sometimes with four pale elytral spots 
or, in pale specimens, with the spots coalescing. The species 
is dedicated to G. E. Bryant of the British Museum, who 
has done much work on the genus. 
