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84. Tachys (s. s.) corruscus Lee. (not typical) 
85. Tachys (s. s.) vorax Lee. 
36. Tachys (s. s.) striax n. sp. 
Moderately stout, depressed; rufo-testaceous (elytra 
rarely piceous with base paler), iridescent lustre faint or 
absent; head only slightly darker. Head with eyes only 
slightly prominent; antennae with middle joints about 
twice as long as wide; frontal grooves moderate, slightly 
converging anteriorly; front faintly micro-reticulate, with 
distinct small puncture at middle ; mentum toothed at mid- 
dle, with two large foraminiform perforations. Prothorax 
cordate, about a half wider than long (by measurement), 
sides strongly sinuate before the prominent and acute (but 
not much more than right) basal angles; usual discal im- 
pressions well marked. Elytra finely, sparsely, inconspic- 
uously pubescent, (pubescence visible only under high mag- 
nification) ; with about five striae including the sutural vis- 
ible on each, the inner two or three somewhat impressed, 
irregularly and inconspicuously punctulate, or at least with 
sides of intervals irregular; sutural stria reaching base of 
elytron, it and second stria reaching apex (second sulciform 
apically), others abbreviated; anterior setigerous puncture 
almost on fourth stria about a third from base, posterior 
puncture within tip of hooked apical striole. Male with 
first joint of front tarsus moderately dilated, with anterior 
apical angle acutely but not strongly produced. Length 
2 mm. or slightly less. 
Holotype $ (Museum of Comparative Zoology no. 19502) 
and 19 paratypes from Soledad (near Cienfuegos) Cuba, 
June, Oct. 17 & 20, Nov. 7. One specimen was taken under 
a stone in a dry field ; practically all the others, in a plowed 
field during a heavy flood. 1 paratype from Cayamas, Sta. 
Clara, Cuba, June 6, E. A. Schwarz (United States National 
Museum) ; 1 paratype from Cuba, Poey Collection no. 27 
(Philadelphia Academy of Sciences). 
This species is strongly characterized by the pubescent 
and striate elytra with the second stria sulciform apically. 
So far as I know, it has no close relatives. 
