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August 9, 1947, C. B. Lewis, IJ, 1; 14}^ miles east of Kingston, on 

 Morant Bay Road, May 25, 1956, T. H. Farr, IJ, 5; 3 miles west- 

 southwest of Logwood, March 25, 1955, T. H. Farr, IJ, 3; Upper 

 Mountain View, St. Andrew Parish, March 15, 1949, C. B. Lewis, 

 I J, 1. 



Remarks: This species is closely related to the South American 

 A^. nigrotarsata Fairmaire and Germain. Its population in the south- 

 eastern United States was treated by Enns (1956). 



The elytra are more strongly microreticulate and therefore duller 

 in specimens from the West Indies than in those from Florida with 

 which we have compared them. All the West Indian specimens 

 have vittate elytra. In one from Cat Island and another from Cuba, 

 the vittae cover the elytra except for the suture and lateral margins. 

 At the other extreme a specimen from Gun Cay and one from South 

 Bimini Island have the vitta of each elytron reduced to a fuscous 

 streak. 



The specimens from Andros, Cat, Great Abaco, and New Providence 

 Islands were collected by the Van Voast- American Museum of Natural 

 History Bahama Islands Expedition, whose itinerary, together with 

 a general account of the Bahama Islands, was given by Rabb and 

 Hayden (1957). The remaining Bahama material was collected 

 during a survey of the Bimini Island group, which was described 

 by Vaurie (1952). 



The lectotype of A^". punctulata is in the Museum of Comparative 

 Zoology. We have been unable to locate the type of N. testaceiceps . 

 It is presumed to be in the collection of M. Pic, but we have been 

 unsuccessful in our efforts to verify this. 



Habits: Several of the specimens from Jamaica were collected 

 on flowers of the composite Bidens pilosa by T. H. Farr. Dr. Farr 

 also collected one specimen that had been captured by the reduviid 

 hug Zelus longipes (Lmnaeus). 



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Blackwelder, Richard E. 



1945. Checklist of the coleopterous insects of Mexico, Central America, 

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 Blatchley, Willis Stanley 



1923. Notes on the Coleoptera of southern Florida with descriptions of new 

 species. Canadian Ent., vol. 55, pp. 13-20, 30-36. 

 Borchmann, Fritz 



1917. Meloidae, Cephaloidae. In Junk, W., and Schenkling, S., Coleop- 

 terorum catalogus. Berlin, pt. 69, pp. 1-208. 

 Brimley, Clement Samuel 



1938. The insects of North Carolina. North Carolina Dept. Agr., Div. 

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