42 BULLETIN 182, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



Remarks . — This is a small tropical American genus of which the 

 species are very uniform in appearance. After repeated attempts 

 I am unable to separate the West Indian specimens into more than 

 one species. Since one of Bierig's names is available, it is adopted 

 for the specimens I have examined. 



I have examined 140 specimens of our species of this genus. Of 

 these 28 are in the British Museum, 14 are in the collections of the 

 United States National Museum, and 98 were collected by me during 

 1935-37. 



The specimens in the British jSIuseum were labeled H. 'praecox 

 Erichson and H. hostilis Fauvel. The former is a misplaced speci- 

 men of a Lispinus^ and the latter (28 examples) are a misidentifica- 

 tion of H. insulanus Bierig as described herein. 



1. HYPOTELUS INSULANUS Bierig 



Hypotelus insulanus Bierig, 1934e, pp. 343, 344, figs. 2, 8. 



Description. — Piceous to rufotestaceous, elytra testaceous. Head 

 more finely and irregularly punctate than pronotum, feebly and con- 

 fusedly but moderately densely strigulose; basal segment of antenna 

 in male more or less tuberculate, the tubercle being merely a carinate 

 prominence on the upper inner edge. Pronotum three-tenths wider 

 than long, sides rounded and gradually narrowed posteriorly from 

 the middle or apical two-fifths, just visibly emarginate before the 

 posterior angles; midline slightly elevated, smooth; sometimes with 

 a pair of irregular foveae before base; punctures moderately coarse, 

 separated by one to three times their diameter ; strigulae obsolescent 

 in places. Elytra scarcely longer than wide, hind angles broadly 

 rounded; punctation shallow but otherwise similar to that of pro- 

 notum, occasionally with a trace of serial arrangement; not at all 

 strigulose. Length, 2 mm. 



Type locality. — Cuba, Aspiro, at base of the Sierra del Rosario. 



Types. — Described from five examples collected INIarch 28, 1934. 

 Types are not mentioned in the description but are presumably in 

 the collection of Alexander Bierig, Habana, Cuba. (One "cotype" 

 is in the United States National Museum, No, 52699.) 



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



Cuba: Aspiro (Bierig, 1934), Cayamas (Schwarz, in U.S.N.M.). 



Jamaica: Bath in St. Thomas (Blaclivvelclor station 392B), Morant Bay (Black- 

 welder station 38GA), Trinityville (Blackwelder station 428), Santa Cruz 

 (Blackwelder station 421). 



Hispaniola: Dominican Repui^lio, Jarabacoa (Darlington, in M.C.Z. and 

 U.S.N.M.). 



St. Vincent: (British Museum). 



