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moderately large, transverse, covering a large portion of the very 
short head, whitish, the areolae very small. 
Elytra moderately broad, broady rounded at the tips, 
pale testaceous, with broad fuscous band in front of the middle 
of costal area, most of the nervures of subcostal, discoidal and 
sutural areas (except apex) fuscous, the areolae transparent; 
broadest at the transverse fascia; costal area broad, triseriate, 
the areolae moderately large. Discoidal area elevated (with 
sutural area), short, not reaching the middle of the elytra, tes- 
taceous at the base and apex, the areolae semi-opaque; subcostal 
area broad, composed of five rows of areolae at its widest part, 
the areolae small, subequal in size to those of discoidal area; 
sutural area with one very large cell near its apex. 
Length, 2 . 45 mm. ; width, 1 . 3 mm. 
Holotype, female, Mina Carlota, Trinidad Mts., March 24, 
1925, in writer’s collection. L. unicarinata Champ., and L. 
myersi are very much unlike the type of the genus of Leptopharsa. 
The characters of the pronotum and the color of the elytra and 
paranota readily separate these species. 
THE SYNONYMY OF ACTINA VIRIDIS (SAY). 
By Charles W. Johnson, 
Boston Society of Natural History 
For some time it has been evident that the old species, 
Beris viridis Say, was being subjected to rather reckless treat- 
ment. The description by Say is good, and the character 
“scutel with four yellow spines” has always readily separated 
it from the other species formerly referred to Beris. In 1848 
Walker described Beris quadridentata. As the name indicates 
it would apply only to the male, having four yellow spines on 
the scutellum and not to the female with six spines. B. quad- 
ridentata was placed in the synonymy under B. viridis Say by 
Osten Sacken (Catl. p. 44, 1878). 
Dr. G. Enderlein in 1920 (Mitt. Zool. Mus., Berlin, 10:209), 
