Metachroma testaceum Blatchley 1920

Metachroma testaceum Blatchley

Metachroma testacea Blatchley, 1920, p. 70.

DESCRIPTION.—From 2.3 to 3.3 mm in length, oblong oval, shining, head and prothorax reddish brown, elytra usually paler yellowish brown, sides of prothorax widely rounded, surface finely and densely punctate, elytra with striate punctures moderately dense and deep, distinct throughout, aedeagus with apex widely parted in two prongs.

Head with interocular space approximately half width of head, a faint transverse sulcus dividing clypeus from front and a short median depression on vertex, densely punctate, deep reddish brown with darker jaws. Antennae extending below humeri, yellowish brown. Prothorax shining reddish brown, approximately twice as wide as long, with widely rounded sides, not very convex and depressed over head, densely but not coarsely punctate. Scutellum reddish brown. Elytra three times longer than prothorax and paler, with regular rows of striate punctures becoming finer at apex, a short intrahumeral sulcus and transverse depression below basal callosities. Body beneath and legs pale reddish brown or yellowish brown. Femora not toothed, claws with long tooth. Length, 2.3–3.3 mm; width; 1.3–2 mm.

TYPE.—Of M. testaceum, in Blatchley collection, Purdue University; of M. elachistum Blake, USNM 64670.

TYPE-LOCALITIES.—Key West, Florida (M. testaceum); shore near Havana, Cuba (M. elachistum).

OTHER LOCALITIES.—Florida: Key West, Hubbard and Schwarz; Wickham, R. H. Beamer; Ramrod Key, on guava flowers; Key Largo, R. H. Beamer; Marathon, H. S. Barber. Biscayne, Hubbard and Schwarz. Cuba: Cayamas, Schwarz, Mariano, F. de Zayas. Eleuthera Island.