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2. CARPELIMUS FULVIPES (Erichson) 



Trogoplilocus fulvipes Erichson, 1840, p. 804. — Duval, 1857, p. 43. — Fauvel, 

 1863, pp. 439, 440.— LeConte, 1877, p. 247.— Schwarz, 1878, p. 442.— Sharp, 

 1887, p. 697.— Fauvel, 1901, p. 71.— Vilijilda, 1901, p. 33.— Bernhauer, 1908a, 

 p. 230. — Bernhauer and Schubert, 1911, p. 99. — Lenq and Mutchler, 1914, 

 D. 403.— Notman, 1920, p. 694.— Wolcott, 1924, p. 77.— Bierig, 1935a, pp. 9, 

 11.— WoLCOTT, 1936, p. 196. 



Trogophloeus riibripcnnis Fauvel, 1863, p. 440. — Bernhauer and Schubert, 1911, 

 p. 97 (as synonym of aridus Duval). — Leng and Mutchler, 1914, p. 403. — 

 Bierig, 1935a, p. 9. 



Trogophloeus senilis Sharp, 1880, p. 51. — Fauvel, 1901, p. 71. — Sharp, 1908, p. 

 543. — Bernhaubb and Schubert, 1911, p. 104. 



Trogophloeus texanus Casey, 1889b, pp. 332, 334, 335.— Fauvel, 1901, p. 71.— 

 Bernhauer and Schubert, 1911, p. 99. — Notman, 1920, p. 694. 



Trogophloeus aequalis Gundlach, 1893, p. 300. — Wolcott, 1024, p. 77. (Not 

 Duval.) 



Description. — Head black, pronotiim piceoiis or nifopiceous, elytra 

 rufocastaneous, abdomen piceous. Head with two rather feeble de- 

 pressions between the antennal ridges ; e3'es separated from base by 

 about one-third their length. Pronotutn nearly one-third wider than 

 long, irregularly hexagonal, sides without tubercles, anterior angles 

 distinctly tuberculate; disk with two distinct longitudinal depres- 

 sions ; with not very fine but moderately dense punctures, scarcely at 

 all obscured by ground sculpture. Elytra moderately finely and 

 densely but distinctly punctate, with very little trace of ground 

 sculpture. Length, 2 to 3 mm. 



Type locality. — Puerto Rico. Of senilis, island of Oahu, Hawaiian 

 Islands; of texanus, Galveston, Tex.; of ruhnpennis, Cuba. 



Types. — Either in the Hope Museum, Oxford, or the Zoologische 

 Museum, Berlin. Of senilis, in British Museum; of texajvus, holo- 

 type and three paratypes, U.S.N.M. No. 37207, in the Casey collec- 

 tion in the United States National Museum; of I'uhripennis, 

 presumably in the collection of Blanche Rancin, Caen, France. 



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



Cuba: (Fauvel, 1901; DuVal, 1857; Fauvel, 1863, as fulvipes and rubripennis; 

 Leng and Mutchler, 1914, as both; Bierig, 1935, as fulvipes and rubripennis) , 

 Cayamas (Schwarz, in U.S.N.M.), Baragua ( Christeuson, in U.S.N.M.; 

 C. F. Stahl, in M.C.Z. and U.S.N.M.), Rio Almendares (Bierig, in U.S.N.M.), 

 Cayajabos (Bierig, in U.S.N.M, as rubripennis), Soledad (Darlington, In 

 M.C.Z. and U.S.N.M.), Cauto El Cristo, Oriente (Darlington, in M.C.Z. and 

 U.S.N.M.), Trinidad Mountains (Darlington, in M.C.Z.). 



Jamaica: (Fauvel, 1901), Milk River (Blackwelder station 415), Kingston (Black- 

 welder stations 3, 379). Spanish Town (Blackwelder station 377), May Pen 

 (Blackwelder station 424A), Black River (Blackwelder stations 416, 419), 

 Santa Cruz (Blackwelder station 421), Ocho Rios (Darlington, in M.C.Z.). 



Hispaniola: (Fauvel, 1901) ; Haiti, Bayeux (Hoffman, in U.S.N.M.), Port-au- 

 Prince (Darlington, in M.C.Z.) ; Dominican Republic, San Francisco Moun- 

 tains (Busck, in U.S.N.M.), Barahona (Darlington, in M.C.Z. and U.S.N.M.), 

 Puerto Plata (Darlington, in M.C.Z.). 



