96 
Psyche 
[June 
damaged $ paratype (Museum of Comparative Zoology no. 
19516) from Jamaica, H. G. Hubbard. 
In Chaudoir’s key (L c .) this species runs to page 284, 
the first z, and falls between o and oo, fitting neither. It 
differs from all structurally comparable species under both 
parts of the couplet in the entire absence of metallic lustre. 
It is not like any of the species described in “Biologia.” 
Colpodes fractilinea n. sp. 
Moderately broad; very shining; rufo-piceous, without 
metallic lustre, femora scarcely paler, tibiae rufo-testaceous, 
antennae and tarsi testaceous. Head longitudinally bi-im- 
pressed in front of eyes ; mentum tooth rounded-triangular. 
Prothorax large, nearly a half wider than long (by measure- 
ment), slightly convex, somewhat narrower in front than 
behind; sides nearly evenly rounded; lateral margins mo- 
derate, reflexed ; basal angles obtuse but distinct ; disk with 
median line fine, transverse impressions poorly marked, 
basal foveae rather broad, moderately deep ; surface smooth. 
Elytra with humeri distinct; apices slightly produced, in- 
dependently irregularly rounded; striae fine, especially ex- 
ternally, and interrupted to form series of more or less 
elongate impressed lines; scutellar stria long, better im- 
pressed; intervals flat; anterior dorsal puncture on third 
stria near basal fifth, second and third punctures on second 
stria near middle and apical fourth. Tibise not sulcate ex- 
ternally ; front tarsi not sulcate above ; hind tarsi sulcate 
on outer side, not distinctly so on inner; fourth joint hind 
tarsus bilobed but only slightly more produced externally 
than internally; fifth joint not ciliate. Metepisterna long; 
inner wings not reduced. Length just over 9 mm. 
Holotype $ (United States National Museum) from 
Diquini, Haiti, J. B. Ferris; unique. 
In Chaudoir’s table (1. c.) this species runs to page 282, 
“III, 2, b” (C. a/pbsedrus etc.). The lack of metallic lustre 
alone is enough to distinguish it from most of the species 
of this group, and the interrupted elytral striae are different 
from those of any species of the aphs&drus group listed by 
Chaudoir. 
