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Types. — Presumably in the collection of Blanche Rancin, Caen, 

 France. 

 Records. — The following are the records known to me : 



Jamaica: Trinityville (Blackwelder station 428), Fern Gully (Blackwelder 

 station 374), Balaclava (Blackwelder stations 397B, 399D), Milk River 

 (Blackwelder station 415), Oclio Eios (Blackwelder station 373), Montego 

 Bay (Blackwelder station 407), Kingston (Blackwelder station 381), Black 

 River (Blackwelder station 420), Moneagiie (Blackwelder station 375), 

 Santa Cruz (Blackwelder station 421), Troy (Blackwelder station 409), 

 Newport (Blackwelder station 412A). 



Hispaniola: (Leng and Mutchler, 1914; Scheerpeltz, 1933); ELaiti, Diquini 

 (Mann, in M.C.Z. and U.S.N.M.), Morne La Hotte (Darlington, in M.C.Z.), 

 St. Marc (Blackwelder station 25), La Visite (Darlington, in M.C.Z.) ; 

 Dominican Republic (Fauvel, 1904) ; Baraliona (Darlington, in M.C.Z.). 



Puerto Rico: Maricao (Blackwelder station 47A). 



Specimens examined. — I have seen 7 examples from the Museum 

 of Comparative Zoology and 47 collected by me in 1935-37. 



Remarks. — This species can be confused with none other known to 

 me, but I find no records of it since Fauvel's original description. 



I have collected it from dung, from under seaweed, by sweeping at 

 night, and flying at dusk. 



7. OXYTELUS GLAREOSUS Wollaston 



Oxytelus glareosus Wollaston, 18.54, p. 6l0; 1S64, p. 598; 1865, p. 517. — Fauvel, 

 1902b, p. 66.— Bebnhaueb and Schubert, 1911, p. 113.— Cameeon, 1928b, p. 

 103. 



Oxytelus glarccsus Leng and Mutchler, 1914, p. 404 (missiDcUing). 



Description. — Piceous to piceotestaceous, with pronotum testaceous. 

 Head not narrowed behind the eyes for a distance greater than their 

 length, angles rounded ; with two f oveae and a median groove at base 

 of vertex, supra-antennal prominences moderate; antennal segments 

 not strongly transverse; labrum narrow but twice as wide as long, 

 emarginate; mandibles somewhat elongate, with two inner teeth near 

 apex ; all four palpi subulate ; gular sutures united at pits in center, 

 continued as one suture to submentum; surface above irregularly 

 carinulately sculptured, more coarsely at sides posteriorly. Pronotum 

 nearly one-half wider than long, widest near apex, strongly narrowed 

 posteriorly, hind angles rounded ; with a pair of indefinite impressions 

 on the disk and a short gi'oove on the midline at base and apex, and 

 a feeble depression near center of side margins ; surface covered with 

 fine carinate longitudinal elevations; no punctures visible. Elytra 

 nearly three-tenths wider than pronotum, one-thirteenth wider than 

 Jong; surface covered with fine carinate longitudinal elevations as 

 pronotum ; without punctures. MaJe., eighth sternite with a flattening 

 at middle outlined by two feeble ridges formed of muricate punctures; 

 ninth sternite usually with an irregular apical depression. Female^ 



