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Specimens examined. — I have seen the 2 types and 38 others in the 

 British Museum, 7 in the collection of Dr. Cameron, 24 in the American 

 Museum of Natural History, 2 from the Museum of Comparative 

 Zoology, and 25 in the United States National Museum. 



Remarks. — The type of L. insulatis was placed in the British Mu- 

 seum under L. granadensls, as a sjmonym, but the former name has 

 priority. Sharp considered Insularls to be a variety of granadensis 

 but remarked that he had only one Central American example of the 

 former although the latter was the commonest Central American 

 Lispinus. The punctation varies somewhat in density and elongation, 

 but I am unable to separate the two. 



I have not collected this species and find no record of its habits. 



8. LISPINUS BOXI. new species 



Description. — Piceous. Head narrowly truncate in front; without 

 impressions but with a pair of very large umbilicate punctures be- 

 tween the eyes; surface punctures moderately coarse, separated by 

 one to two times their diameter; ground sculpture obsolescent, not 

 scaly. Pronotum nearly one-fourth wider than long; narrowed from 

 apex to base, sides nearly straight, not emarginate posteriorly ; lateral 

 impressions sulciform, densely punctate, extending past middle; disk 

 without depressions, midline feebly canaliculate at basal third ; punc- 

 tures moderately coarse, elongate, frequently united in short longi- 

 tudinal rows, separated transversely by one to three times their 

 width ; sculpture obsolescent but linear. SciUelluni with a few large 

 punctures and obsolete sculpture. Elytron with sutural stria im- 

 pressed; discal stria feebly impressed, with numerous short longi- 

 tudinal bands of coalescent punctures; disk Avith moderate but 

 strongly elongate punctures, separated transversely by twice their 

 width and longitudinally by one to two times their length; ground 

 sculpture obsolescent but linear. Abdominal sternites with fine di- 

 agonal carinae at sides. Length, 4 mm. 



Type locality. — St. Lucia, upper Roseau Valley, 1 mile south of 

 bridge over Millette River just above its junction with the Roseau 

 River. Elevation 750 feet. 



Types. — Holotype, U.S.N.M. No. 52361, collected by me on March 

 29, 1936. 



Records. — The following is the only record known to me : 



St. Lucia: (Blackwelder station 208B). 



Specimens examined. — The type is the only example I have seen. 



Remarks. — This specimen was found under bark of a rotten log 

 in the forest in company with two examples of Pseudolispinodes 

 impar, one of P. 7iigrifrons, and three of Paralispinus politics, none 



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