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New West Indian Cardbidx 
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alutaceous and with numerous rather coarse punctures. Ely- 
tra subparallel, evenly conjointly rounded at apex; striae 
entire, moderately impressed, impunctate ; no scutellar stria ; 
intervals slightly convex, very shining, without trace of al- 
utaceous microsculpture ; one dorsal puncture on each third 
interval about a third from apex. Male tarsi slightly dilated, 
sparingly biseriately squamulose below. Length 3V2-4% 
mm. 
Holotype $ (United States National Museum) from Cay- 
amas, Sta. Clara, Cuba, Dec. 26, E. A. Schwarz; 1 $ para- 
type (Museum of Comparative Zoology no. 19529) from 
the same locality, Baker ; 1 $ paratype from Cumanayagua, 
Cuba, June 13, F. de Zayas (collection Estacion E. Agron- 
omica, Cuba) ; 1 specimen in poor condition from Cuba, 
Poey Collection no. 569 (Philadelphia Academy of Sciences) . 
This species belongs to the difficult rupestris group of 
Stenocellus. It differs from rupestris and the latter’s closest 
relatives in having the basal angles of the prothorax not 
minutely prominent ; from congener Lee., nubifer Lee., ven- 
tralis Lee. (types of all three seen) , and flohri Bates (series 
seen) in lacking the fine, transverse, alutaceous microsculp- 
ture of the elytra ; and from festinans Csy. in being broader, 
less convex, with shallower elytral strise and less rounded 
prothoracic angles. 
The presence or absence of microsculpture on the elytra 
is apparently a constant specific character in this genus. For 
instance, it is uniformly present in a series of 26 specimens 
of congener Lee. from Brownsville, Tex., is uniformly pres- 
ent also in the 9 specimens of the following new species, and 
is uniformly undetectable in a series of 8 specimens of the 
Mexican nigrellus Bates which I have seen. I do not know 
of any species in which the sculpture varies in specimens 
from a single locality. 
85. Bradycellus (Stenocellus) velatus n. sp. 
Piceous, more rufescent below ; suture and mouth always 
and base of elytra and humeri and (vaguely) prothorax 
sometimes rufescent ; apex and side margins of elytra pos- 
teriorly and epipleurse and side margins of prothorax below 
