Etymology. This species is named after the general region (the Caribbean Sea) in

which it occurs.

 Description. Male. Form: Round, contractile; strongly convex dorsally. Length:

1.35 mm (measured from apex of clypeus to apex elytra); breadth: 1.0 mm (measured

across elytral humeri). Color: Head, thorax, elytra black or dark brown, underside dark

brown to black; front legs light brown, middle and hind legs and antennae dark brown.

Head: Broad and convex, clypeus moderately produced and relatively narrow. Eyes

large, tear-shaped, facets distinct. Dorsal surface distinctly alutaceous and minutely but

uniformly punctate. Genae not visible from above and slightly explanate when viewed

laterally. Antenna with 11 antennomeres including a 3-segmented club about V2 the

height of the eye. Club flat and distinctly separated from funicle. All club antennomeres

wider than long; terminal club antennomere short and truncate (Fig. 5-7). Antennal club

margin serrated. Antennomere 3 shorter than 4 and 5 combined. Pronotum: Strongly

convex, lateral margins curved; anterior angles more narrowly arcuate than posterior

angles. Alutaceous and punctuate. Scutellum: Triangular, alutaceous, and with margins

slightly convex. Elytra: Uniform width narrowing at the apical 1/5. Strongly convex,

sides slightly sinuous and apices rounded, length shorter than combined width (33:43).

Punctation ending just before apices. Median margin and apices of elytra bordered.

Underside: Abdominal sternites alutaceous and punctate with long coarse hairs thinly

covering the surface. Metasternum alutaceous, roughly punctured, and clothed in long

coarse hairs. Legs: All tibiae slightly but distinctly curved and dilated toward the apex.

The protibiae with short hairs along the outer margin. Meso- and metatibiae with long,

stiff hairs along the outer margin. All femora shiny, wide, flattened and sparsely covered