Proceedings ofthe United StatesNational MuseumSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ? WASHINGTON, B.C.
Volume 118 1966 Number 3526
DESCRIPTIONS AND RECORDSOF WEST INDIAN CERAMBYCIDAE(COLEOPTERA)
By John A. Chemsak^
This paper is intended primarily to report on a collection of Ceram-bycidae made by Dr. J. F. Gates Clarke, Chairman of the Depart-ment of Entomology, U.S. National Museum, while a member of theSmithsonian-Bredin Caribbean Expeditions to the British VirginIslands and British West Indies in 1956 and 1958. A total of 136Cerambycidae representing 13 genera and 21 species was taken onthese faunistically interesting islands. Of these, six are presumed to benew and one previously described is considered to belong to a newgenus.A second objective is to contribute further to the knowledge of thecerambycid fauna of the West Indies. Although no major monographcovering this area as a whole has yet been published, a number ofpapers dealing with island groups or reporting new species have beenpublished. Subsequent to 1862 when Chevrolat described severalof the Cuban species, the major works have been those of Gahan (1895)
* Department of Entomology and Parasitology, University of California, Berkeley.209782-217?66 1
210 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM vol. iisand Fisher (1925, 1926, 1932, 1935a, 1935b, 1941, 1942, and 1947).The most recent contribution has been that of Cazier and Lacey(1952) dealing with the Bahama Islands.The author is grateful to Dr. Clarke for the opportunity to studyhis material and to Professor E. G. Linsley for his assistance. Thisproject was undertaken during the course of a National ScienceFoundation sponsored study on North American Cerambycidae(Grant GB-2326).Types of new species are deposited in the collection of the U.S.National Museum. Subfamily CerambycinaeTribe MethiiniMethia insularum, new speciesMale: Form slender, short; elytra pale brownish testaceous; append-ages darker; head, prothorax, and underside brownish to reddishpiceous; pubescence pale, sparse, short, distinct. Head wider thanpronotum; eyes separated on vertex by about diameter of thirdantennal segment or less, separated beneath by a distance subequalto diameter of antennal scape, upper and lower lobes connected bya single row of facets; antennae extending about five segments beyondbody, scape with apical tooth small, erect hairs along outside marginof segments shorter than diameter of segments, internal cilia dense,suberect, slightly longer on the basal segments than the erect outsidehairs. Pronotum broader than long, sides rounded, base stronglyconstricted, transverse impression not extending across disc, apexfeebly constricted and impressed; disc scabrous, punctures shallow,vague, central area flattened, with a round, glabrous, depressed callusat middle near base and two indistinct, raised calluses at basal margin;pubescence sparse, long, subdepressed ; stridulatory plate of meso-notum not grooved; prosternum convex; episternimi of metathoraxscabrous, opaque. Elytra about twice as long as broad, extendingto fourth abdominal segment; each elytron with a distinct mediancosta; punctures dense, fine, confluent, shallow; pubescence ratherdense, short, recurved. Legs moderately densely pubescent, femorascabrous. Abdomen sparsely punctate and pubescent; apex of laststernite emarginate truncate. Length 4-6 mm.Female: Slightly larger, more elongate; color usually paler withhead and prothorax orangish brown; antennae extending aboutfour segments beyond body, segments clothed wdth short suberecthairs; elytral apices narrowly round; apex of last abdominal sternitedeeply emarginate, V-shaped. Length 4-7.5 mm.
WEST INDIAN CERAMBYCIDAE?CHEMSAK 211Holotype male (USNM 68224), allotype female, and 10 paratypes(2 cT cf', 8 99) from Pricldy Pear Isl., Vixen Point, Virgin Gorda, B.V.I.,Apr. 14, 1956, and Apr. 6, 1958 (J. F. G. Clarke); additional specimensnot designated as paratypes include: 2 cf cT , Francis Bay, Saint Johns,A.V.I., Mar. 25, 1958.The elytra of this species are pale with a little infuscation oftenpresent at the base. M. insularum differs from M. necydalea (Fabri-cius) by the usually concolorous elytra, narrower elytra! apices,shorter pubescence of the antennal segments, and almost impunctatepronotal disc. From M. pallida Fisher, it may be distinguished byhaving the lobes of the eyes connected by a single row of facets.Methia impressicollis, new speciesFemale: Form slender, small; color brownish testaceous; elytraslightly paler; pubescence pale, sparse, short. Head slightly widerthan pronotum; eyes separated on vertex by less than diameter ofthird antennal segment, separated beneath by a distance greater thandiameter of antennal scape, upper and lower lobes connected by asingle row of facets; antennae extending about four segments beyondbody, scape with strong apical tooth, segments densely clothed withshort suberect hairs along outside margin, suberect hairs of insidemargin longer. Pronotum broader than long, sides rounded, basestrongly constricted and broadly, deeply impressed transversely,apex less strongly constricted, shallowly impressed; disc slightly con-cave with an impressed, subglabrous, V-shaped area at middle begin-ning near basal margin, surface scabrous, punctures fine, vague;pubescence fine, mostly subdepressed; stridulatory plate of mesonotumnot grooved; prosternum narrowly impressed; episternum of meta-thorax opaque. Elytra over 2K times as long as broad, extendingto about fourth abdominal segment; costae vague, punctm'es fine,shallow, irregular, somewhat rugulose; pubescence very short, erect.Legs with femora minutely rugulose, sparsely pubescent. Abdomenwith last sternite deeply V-shaped emarginate at apex. Length 5 mm.Holotype female (USNM 67325) from Little Harbor, Jost VanDyke, B.V.I., Apr. 1, 1958 (J. F. G. Clarke).This species differs from the other known West Indian Methia bythe V-shaped impression of the pronotum.Tribe AchrysoniniAchryson surinamutn (Linnaeus)Ceramhyx surinamus Linnaeus, 1767, p. 632.Achryson surinamum.?White, 1855, p. 298.Two 99, Saint Ann's Hill, Antigua, B.W.I., Apr. 19, 21, 1958.For a synonymical bibliography of this species, see Linsley, 1962.
212 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM vol. iisTribe HesperophaniniEburia decemmaculata (Fabricius)Stenocorus 10-maculatus Fabricius, 1775, p. 181.Eburia decemmaculata.?White, 1855, p. 91.One 9, English Harbor, Anti^^ua, B.W.I., Apr. 20, 1958.Eburia quadrimaculata (Linnaeus)Cerambyx 4-m(tculatus Linnaeus, 1767, p. 626.Eburia quadrimaculata.? Audinet-Serville, 1834, p. 9.Three cf cf , Sopers Hole, Tortola, B.V.I., Apr. 5, 1958.Tribe ElaphidioniniElaphidion glabratum (Fabricius)Stenocorus glabratus Fabricius, 1792, p. 295.Elaphidion glabratum.?Newman, 1840, p. 27.One cf , Sopers Hole, Tortola, B.V.I., Apr. 5, 1958.Elaphidion insulare NewmanElaphidion insulare Newman, 1840, p. 27.One 9, Mount Sage, 1000', Tortola, B.V.I., Apr. 17, 1956; 2 99,Sopers Hole, Tortola, B.V.I. , Apr. 5, 1958; 1 cf , Prickly Pear Isl.,Vixen Point, Virgin Gorda, B.V.I. , Apr. 6, 1958.Elaphidionoides thomae (Gahan)Elaphidion thomae Gahan, 1895, p. 104.Fourteen cf cf, 13 99, Prickly Pear Isl., Vixen Point, Virgin Gorda,B.V.I. Apr. 6, 1958; 18 cf cf, 12 99, Sopers Hole, Tortola, B.V.I.,Apr. 5, 1958; 1 9, Sopers Hole, Mar. 31, 1958; 1 9, Francis Bay,Saint Jolins, A.V.I. , Mar. 25, 1958.Curtomerus flavus (Fabricius)Callidium flavum Fabricius, 1775, p. 191.Cylindera flava.? Aurivilh'us 1912, p. 120.Curtomerus flavus.? Gressitt, 1956, p. 77.Three cf cf, 3 99, Prickly Pear Isl., VLxen Point, Virgin Gorda,B.V.I. , Apr. 14, 1956, Apr. 6, 1958; 1 9, No. of Road Bay, 200',Anguilla, B.W.I., Apr. 12, 1958; 1 d', Flat Top Point, Anguilla,B.W.I., Apr. 13, 1958; 1 d^, 1 9, Oyster Pond, Barbuda, B.W.I.,Apr. 6, 1956.A complete synonymical bibliography for this species can be foundin Linsley, 1963.
WEST INDIAN CERAMBYCIDAE CHEMSAK 213Curtomerus subflavus, new speciesMale: Form robust, somewhat depressed; color uniformly brownishtestaceous, appendages slightly paler; pubescence golden, moderatelydense. Head finely, shallowly, confluently punctate on vertex andfront, area between prominent antennal tubercles shallowly concave,median line not deep; erect, stiff setae numerous around mouthparts,pubescence sparse, short, subdepressed and suberect elsewhere;antennae extending about two segments beyond elytra, segmentsfrom second densely clothed with very short, appressed pubescence,long erect hairs dense along inside margin, long hairs also numerous atoutside margin of basal segments, scape shining, finely densely punc-tate, sparsely clothed with long, suberect and short, appressed hairs,third segment slightly longer than scape, fourth subequal to scape,fifth longer than third, eleventh longer than tenth. Pronotum aboutas long as broad, sides rounded, base deeply constricted, impressedat sides, apex feebly constricted, not impressed; disc flattened, with amedian, longitudinal, nonelevated, glabrous callus ; punctures aroundmedian callus coarse, confluent, rugose appearing from basal marginto apical one-thu'd of disc, punctures finer and separated towardapex, sides at apex and base very sparsely punctate; each puncturegiving rise to a long, suberect, yellowish hair ; prosternum not impressed,with distinctly delimited, densely punctate areas extending from sidesof pronotum to narrow, glabrous, central area which joins the trans-versely impressed collar, pubescence sparse; meso- and metasternvimsparsely punctate and pubescent; scutellum small, subglabrous.Elytra less than 2K times as long as broad; basal punctures finer thanthose of pronotal disc, separated, becoming fhier and sparser onlyat extreme apex; pubescence consistmg of long suberect, recurvedbail's, each arising out of a puncture; each elytron strongly bicostate;apices rounded. Legs with femora strongl}^ clavate, minutelypunctate, pubescence long, suberect and short, appressed. Abdomenshining, very sparsely punctate and pubescent; apex of last sterniterounded. Length 12 mm.Female: Antennae slightly shorter than body; prosternum shining,very sparsely punctate, shallowly rugulose; apex of last abdominalsternite subtruncate. Length 9-10 mm.Holotype male (USNM 67326), allotype female from Flat TopPoint, Anguilla, B.W.I. , Apr. 13, 1958 (J. F. G. Clarke); one femaleparatype from Sopers Hole, Tortola, B.V.I., Apr. 5, 1958.The coarse, confluent punctures surrounding the median glabrouscallus of the pronotum wiU distinguish C. subflavus from the otherknown Curtomerus.
214 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM vol. nsNesanoplium, new genusBody small, parallel-sided, clothed with short subdepressed, recurvedhairs intermixed with longer, erect setae. Head flat between antennae,surface coarsely alveolate-punctate, median line vague; palpi subequal,apical segments securiform; eyes coarsely faceted, deeply emargmate;antennae about as long as body in males, shorter in females, segmentscarinate, three to seven spined at apex internaUy, segments six to ninespined externaUy, third segment distinctly longest, fourth shorter thanfifth, fifth to ninth subequal, tenth shorter than eleventh, eleventhsubequal to ninth. Pronotmn rounded at sides; disc rather coarselyalveolate-punctate, without caUuses; anterior coxal cavities openbehind, prosternal process arcuately dechvous behind, shghtly ex-panded at apex; intermediate coxal cavities closed to epimeron;episternum of metathorax slender, narrowing slightly from base toapex. Elytra subparallel; surface coarsely, closely punctate, sparselyat apex, costae vague; pubescence short, recurved, subdepressed withlong erect hau-s interspersed; apices spined at external angle, shghtlydenlate at sutm-e. Legs with femora clavate, mthout apical spines;tibiae carinate.Type species: Cyrtomerus puberulus Fleutiaux and Salle.This genus resembles Elaphidionopsis Linsley but differs by thespined antennal segments, spined elytral apices, and clavate femora.The armed antennae and elytra and deeply emarginate eyes separateit from Curtomerus, where the type species C. puberulus has previouslybeen placed.Nesanoplium puberulum (Fleutiaux and Sall6), new combinationCyrtomerus puherulus Fleutiaux and Salle, 1889, p. 464, pi. 8, fig. 17.Cylindera (?) puberula.?Gahsin, 1895, p. 108.Cylindera puberula.? Aurivillius, 1912, p. 120.One cT, 2 99, Sopers Hole, Tortola, B.V.I. , Apr. 5, 1958.Tribe CallidiopiniMerostenus attenuatus (Chevrolat)Lampromerus (?) attenuatus Chevrolat, 1862, p. 263.Merostenus attenuatus.?Gahan, 1895, p. 109.One cf , 1 9, Prickly Pear IsL, Vixen Point, Vu-gin Gorda, B.V.I.,Apr. 14, 1956, Apr. 6, 1958; 6 d^cf. Little Harbor, Jost Van Dyke,B.V.I., Apr. 1, 1958; 2 cf cT, Sopers Hole, Tortola, B.V.I., Apr. 5, 1958,Merostenus siniilis FisherMerostenus similis Fisher, 1932, p. 53.One cf, English Harbor, Antigua, B.W.I., Apr. 2, 1956; 1 cf,Oyster Pond, Barbuda, B.W.I; Apr. 6, 1956.
WEST INDIAN CERAMBYCIDAE?CHEMSAK 215Tribe IbidioniniHeterachthes quadrimaculatus (Fabricius)Callidium 4-macnlatum Fabricius, 1792, p. 328.Heterachtes [sic] quadmnaculatus.? Aurivillius, 1912, p. 111.There may be some doubt as to the correct determination of thisspecies. The five specimens at hand have been compared withmaterial in the U.S. National Museum identified as quadrimaculata.However, either two species are involved or a striking sexual dimor-phism exists. The males are all densely pubescent with denudedareas containing a coarse punctiu-e enclosmg a long erect seta andthe elytral apices are truncate and unarmed. In the females thedense pubescence is less pronounced and the elytral apices bear astout spine at the external angle. Records include:Two cfc^, Brandy\\dne Bay, Tortola, B.V.I., Mar. 21, 1958; 1 d^,Sopers Hole, Tortola, Apr. 5, 1958; 1 9, Antrim, 1000', Antigua'B.W.I., Mar. 14, 1958; 1 9, Oyster Bay, Barbuda, B.W.I., Apr.6, 1956. Tribe AnaglyptiniTilloclytus puertoricensis FisherTillodytiis puertoricensis Fisher, 1935, p. 51.One 9, Francis Ba}^, Saint Johns, A.V.I., Mar. 25, 1958.Subfamily LamiinaeTribe AtaxiiniAtaxia alboscutellata FisherAtaxia alboscutellata Fisher, 1926, p. 3.One 9, Mount Sage, 1000', Tortola, B.V.L, Apr. 17, 1956.Tribe AcantbocininiLeptostylus testaceus (Frblich)Cernmhyx testaceus Frolich, 1792, p. 141,Leptostylus testaceus.? Aurivillius, 1923, p. 403.One cT, Sopers Hole, Tortola, B.V.L, Apr. 5, 1958; 1 cf , Little Bay,Peter Isl., B.V.L, Mar. 30, 1958.Leptostylus inflaticollis, new speciesMale: Form short, robust, convex above; color pale reddish brown,densely clothed with whitish to brown appressed pubescence andornamented with dark brown and black pubescent spots. Head withfront nearly flat, subquadrate, deeply angularly depressed between
VOL. 118216 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM
antennal tubercles, antennal tubercles strongly developed and diver-gent- punctation obscured, pubescence concealing surface, appressed,grayish and dark brown; narrow longitudinal line extendmg fromepistoma to occiput; eyes smaU, moderately coarsely faceted, deeplyemar-inate, separated above by less than diameter of antennal scape;antennae extendmg about four segments beyond body, first four seg-ments densely mottled with dark brown and pale gray-brown pubes-cence the following segments pale gray brown with apices and basesdark 'brown, the dark brown banding increasing m width apically,scape extending to basal one-thkd of pronotum, subequal m length tofifth segment, fourth longer than fifth, thu'd longer than fourth,eleventh segment slender, subequal to tenth. Pronotum more thanIK^ times as broad as long, base broader than apex; sides rounded tobasal margin, then strongly constricted, strongly inflated at sides toproduce a very broad, obtuse tubercle; surface narrowly, shaUowlyimpressed at apex, more deeply and broadly at base, disc ahnostflattened, without caUuses, punctures not visible; pubescence dense,recimibent, pale gray brown to brown with a narrow dark-brownmedian \^tta extending length of pronotum, two dark brown obhquebands at sides of median band in front of middle and two short dark-brown basal bands near lateral marghas, smaU dark spots sparse atedges; prosternum very narrow, intercoxal process broad, expandedapically, coxal cavities closed; mesosternal process very broad, epister-num of metathorax narrow, narrowing posteriorly; scuteUum tri-angular, narrowly rounded behind, densely pubescent. Eb^ra over1}.^ tmies longer than broad, shghtly broader than pronotum; humerinot strongly developed; surface uneven, with subsutural costae ex-tendmg from base to before apex, humeral costae extending obliquelyto about basal one-thh-d, then runnmg parallel to subsutural ones,lateral costae arcuately jommg others before apex with a vague shortcosta between lateral and humeral ones; punctures at base fine, sep-arated, becoming coarser and denser at midelytra; pubescence dense,reciunbent, grayish to brown with two dark elongate spots at middleof elytra just behind middle, an oblique, inverted V-shaped, shortbrown che\Ton at apical third extendmg from suture and darkerirregular spots placed behmd and toward the lateral margms, smallblacl: spots sparsely interspersed; apices obliquely truncate Legswith femora strongly clavate, densely clothed with mottled pale andbrown pubescence; tibiae with two broad dark bands at outsidesurface. Abdomen uniformly, moderately densely pale pubescent;apex of last sternite narrowly rounded. Length 7 mm.Holotype male (USNM 67327) from Little Bay, Peter Isl., B.V.I.
,
Mar. 30, 1958 (J. F. G. Clarke).
WEST INDIAX CERAMBYCIDAE CHEMSAK 217This species is distinctive by the strongly lateraUy inflated and non-callused disc of the pronotiun.Leptostylus bredini, new speciesMale: Form short, robust, slightly convex above; ground colorreddish brown, appendages paler, densely clothed with pale brownrecumbent pubescence and ornamented with dark brown and whitespots and bands. Head with front flat, subquadrate, rather shal-lowly mipressed between antennal tubercles, antenual tubercleselevated, divergent, not strong; punctation obscured, pubescenceconcealing surface, recumbent, mottled grayish and brown; narrowlongitudinal line extending from epistoma to occiput; eyes small,nioderately coarsely faceted, deeply emarginate, separated above byabout diameter of antennal scape; mouthparts with long erect hairs;antennae about as long as body, first four segments densely mottledwith dark bro^vn and pale gray-brown pubescence, the followingsegments pale gray bro^^-n with dark bands at apices and bases, scapeextending slightly beyond middle of pronotmn, scape shorter thanthu-d segment, longer than remaining segments, segments from thirdgradually decreasmg in length. Pronotmn about VA times broaderthan long, base broader than apex; sides feebly inflated, somewhatrounded from apex to feeble basal constriction, apex and base shal-lowly impressed; surface distinctly, finely, separately punctate, discwith five feeble, barely elevated calluses; pubescence gray brown,mottled with dark brown, vittae absent; prosternum narrow, inter-coxal process broad, apically expanded, coxal cavities closed; mes-osternal process very broad, pubescence moderately dense; scutellmntriangular, broadly rounded behind, densely pubescent. Elytraless than Iji as long as broad, tapering apically, less than Iji timesas broad as pronotum, humeri feeble; sm-face uneven, vaguely costatewith elevated dark-brown pubescent spots longitudinally arrangeddown costae; punctures fine, sparse; pubescence dense, recumbeiit,brownish except for elevated dark spots and irregular white streaks'suture narrowly white pubescent with nan^ow vague whitish bandsbeginning at suture a little behind middle and extending obliquelyback toward lateral margins, sides with dark vittae extending frombehind hmneri obliquely back toward suture and angling towardlateral margin at about apical one-fourth, base behind scutellum witha narrow dark, slightly arcuate band not extending to lateral margins;apices narrow, obliquely truncate. Legs with femora strongly clavate,'pubescence mottled pale and brown; tibiae with irregular dark bands!Abdomen moderately densely pale pubescent; apex of last sterniteemarginate. Length 7-8 mm.
218 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM vol. ii8Female: Antennae slightly shorter than body; femora less stronglyclavate; apex of last abdominal sternite shallowly emarginatetruncate. Length 6-8 mm.Holotype male (USNM 67328), aUotype female, and 8 paratypes(2 cfcf , 6 99) from English Harbor, Antigua, B.W.I., Apr. 2, 1956(J. F. G. Clarke) ; also assigned to this species but not designated asparatypes are 2 d^cf , 1 9, Saint Ann's Hill, Antigua, B.W.I., Apr. 21,1958. . .The exact relationships of tliis species are not known at this tnnebut the species may be recognized by the feeble calluses of the prono-tum and the arrangement of the pubescent pattern.L. bredini is dedicated to J. Bruce Bredin, of Wilmington, Del.,sponsor of the Smithsonian-Bredin expeditions to the Caribbean.Urgleptes clarkei, new speciesFemale: Form small, moderately depressed; integument dark topale reddish brown, appendages brownish testaceous and piceous;pubescence short, recumbent, grayish with dark-brown mottling.Head with front nearly square, convex, feebly impressed betweenantennal tubercles, antennal tubercles slightly elevated, widelydivergent; narrow median groove extending from epistoma to occiput;punctation minute, contiguous, scabrous; pubescence moderatelydense, appressed, not obscuring surface; eyes small, coarsely faceted,deeply emarginate, separated above by much more than diameter ofantennal scape; antennae extendmg about six segments beyond body,scape infuscated over apical half, remaining segments narrowly dark-banded at apex, pubescence moderately dense, minute, appressed,scape slightly shorter than thkd segment, fourth longer than third,fifth subequal to scape. Pronotum over iK times as broad as long,base narrower than apex; sides diverguig slightly to apices of acutespmes near base, base stongly constricted behind the feebly obhquely,outward extending spmes; base slightly impressed, apex not; discslightly convex, minutely, opaquely punctate except for row of coarsepunctures along basal margins; pubescence moderately dense, ap-pressed, grayish with darker hairs on middle of disc which form darkpatches at sides of middle; pro- and mesosternal processes narrow,about one-fourth the width of the coxae; scutellum broadly rounded,moderately pubescent. Elytra less than twice as long as broad, widerthan the pronotum, sides parallel to about apical one-fourth, thentapering to apex; surface feebly depressed at basal one-third, costaelacking; punctures moderately coarse, contiguous over entire surface;pubescence gray bromi, mottled with brown near base and irregulardark spots at apical half, dark patches usually extending laterallybehind humeri and obliquely onto disc a little behind middle, two
WEST INDIAN CERAMBYCIDAE?CHEMSAK 219small spots near suture giving the overall effect of a dark, broken,irregular band, dark patches also irregularly placed behind the brokenband; apices obliquely emarginate truncate. Legs with hind femoramoderately clavate, irregularly infuscated over club, tibiae irregularlyinfuscated. Abdomen moderately pubescent; apex of last sternitenarrowly rotundate truncate. Length 3.5-4 mm.Holotype female (USNM 67329) and five female paratypes fromLittle Bay, Peter Isl., B.V.I., Mar. 30, 1958 (J. F. G. Clarke); twoadditional females not designated as paratypical from English Harbor,Antigua, B.W.I., Apr. 20, 1958 and Apr. 2, 1956.This species varies in the amount of dark patches present on theelytra and in the infuscation of the pronotum and appendages. Thedark patches are restricted to the apical half of the elytra when viewedfrom above.Also tentatively assigned to L. clarkei is one female from SopersHole, Tortola, B.V.I., Apr. 5, 1958. This latter specimen is clothedwith paler pubescence and the elytral apices are truncate. It mayrepresent a distmct species but the lack of definitive series makes suchan assignment unpractical at this time.U. clarkei is dedicated to J. F. G. Clarke, who made available forstudy the material reported in this paper.Urgleptes speciesOne female from Antrim, 1000', Dominica, B.W.I. , Mar. 15, 1956,probably represents a new species, but I choose not to describe it atthis time on the basis of a unique. This small (5.5 mm.) prettyspecimen is rather pale with the elytra and appendages being dom-inantly testaceous. The head and pronotal disc are a pale reddishbrown. The elytra are u'regularly mottled by elongate patches ofdark pubescence, the vague costae are clothed with very pale brownpubescence. The legs are almost all very pale with small dark spotson the club of the femora and the tibiae are apically infuscated.
Literature CitedAudinet-Serville, Jean Guillaume1834. Nouvelle classification de la famille des longicornes (suite). Ann.Soc. Ent. France, ser. 1, vol. 3, pp. 5-110.AuRiviLLius, Christopher1912. Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae. Pars 39 [vol. 22] of Schenkling,Coleopterorum catalogus, 574 pp.1923. Cerambycidae: Lamiinae. Pars 74 [vol. 23] of Schenkling, Coleop-terorum catalogus, 704 pp.Cazier, M. a., and Lacey, L.1952. The Cerambycidae of the Bahama Islands, British West Indies (Coleop-tera). Amer. Mus. Nov., no. 1588, pp. 1-55,
220 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUMPnvvROTAT Louis Alexandre Auguste ..-,,.1862 Col6optferes de I'lle de Cuba: Notes, synonymies et description d espfecesnouvelles. In FamUles des cerambycides et des parandrides. Ann.Soc. Ent. France, ser. 4, vol. 2, pp. 245-280.Fabuicius, Johann Christian1775. Systema entomologiae, 30+832 pp.1792. Entomologia systematica, vol. 1, 330+ 538 pp.
^T925'^^et West Indian Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) : Subfamily Lamiinae.Amer. Mus. Nov., no. 174, pp. 1-16.1926 Descriptions of new West Indian longicorn beetles of the subfamilyLamUnae. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., vol 68, no. 2623, pp. 1-40.1932. New West Indian cerambycid beetles. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., vol.80, no. 2922, pp. 1-93. a ? tt ? .1935a. New cerambycid beetles from Puerto Rico. Journ. Agric. Univ.Puerto Rico, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 51-63.1935b New West Indian cerambycid beetles. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., vol. 83,no. 2979, pp. 189-210. . -o ,. f .i,1941 Descriptions of nine new species of Cerambycidae. In Results of theOxford University Cayman Islands Biological Expedition, 1938.Ent. Mon. Mag., vol. 77, pp. 108-115.1942 New West Indian cerambycid beetles, 3. Torreia, vol. 10 pp. 3-43.1947. New West Indian cerambycid beetles, 4. Mem. Soc. Cubana Hist.Nat., vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 29-41.Fleutiaux, E., and Salle, A. ,, . n ?1889. Liste des coleopteres de la Guadeloupe et descriptions d'especes nouvelles.Ann. Soc. Ent. France, ser. 6, vol. 9, pp. 351-484.Frolich, Josef Aloys von , t ^ q i.,.,?1792. Bemerkerngen uber einige seltene Kafer aus der Insecten-Sammlungdes Hr. Rudolf in Erlangen. Naturforscher, pt. 2b, pp. bS-iDO.[From Horn.]Gahan Charles Joseph _,1895. On the longicorn Coleoptera of the West India Islands. Trans. Ent.Soc. London, 1895, pp. 79-140.GrESSITT, J. LiNSLEY , t,t-1956. Coleoptera: Cerambycidae. Vol. 17, no. 2, in Insects of Micronesia,pp. 61-183.LiNNE, Carl von [Carolus Linnaeus] ?o 10071767. Systema naturae, ed. 12, rev., vol. 1, pars 2, pp. 533-13^/.LiNSLBY, E. G. J 1 -1962 The Cerambycidae of North America, 3: Taxonomy and classi-fication of the subfamily Cerambycinae, tribes Opsimini throughMegaderini. Univ. California Publ. Ent., vol. 20, pp. 1-188.1963 The Cerambycidae of North America, 4: Taxonomy and classi-fication of the subfamily Cerambycinae, tribes Elaphidionini throughRhinotragini. Univ. California Publ. Ent., vol. 21, pp. 1-165.Newman, Edward i7_q91840. Entomological notes. Entomologist, no. 1, pp. 1-lb; no. A pp. 1^ ^^.White, Adam . , . ., ^1855. Longicornia, 2. Part 8 in Catalogue of coleopterous insects in thecollection of the British Museum, pp. 175-412, pis. 5-10.
U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING 0FF1CE:1966