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but shallow punctures generally separated by their diameter or less; 

 with feeble scaly ground sculpture. Elytra broadly rounded at 

 apex; with moderate but irregularly dense punctures; surface very 

 uneven but without distinct ground sculpture on the disk. Length, 

 13^ to 2 mm. 



Tyjpe locality. — Cuba, Cayamas. 



Types. — Holotype and 14 paratypes, U.S.N.M. No. 52374, col- 

 lected by E. A. Schwarz in May of 1902, 1903, or 1904. One paratype 

 has been deposited in the collection of Dr. M. Cameron and one in 

 the British Museum. 



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



Cuba: Cayamas (Schwarz, iu U.S.N.M.). 



Specimens examined. — I have seen only the 17 types. 



Remarhs. — This species is a member of the complex that includes 

 also trhiidadensis, wifhycombei, and janudcensis. They seem at 

 present to be separable on characters of sculpture and color. 



I have no record of the habits of this species. 



5. BLEDIUS TRINIDADENSIS, new species 



Bledius trinidadensis Bernhauer, MS. 



Description. — Piceous, pronotum rufopiceous, elytra piceotesta- 

 ceous with outer apical half luteous. Head convex above, with an 

 abrupt fovea on disk, supraantennal ridges small but prominent; 

 antennal segments 5 to 10 transverse; labrum over twice as wide as 

 long, anterior margin straight; third segment of maxillary palpus 

 enlarged and flattened, fourth very small; surface with feeble 

 but distinct scaly ground sculpture. Pronotum nearly one-fourth 

 wider than long, subsemicircular ; midline finely channeled; with 

 very large but shallow punctures, generally separated by less than 

 their diameter ; with scaly ground sculpture feeble, almost obsolescent. 

 Elytra dehiscent ; apex broadly rounded ; with moderately large, shal- 

 low punctures, irregular but seldom separated by their diameter ; with 

 only vague traces of ground sculpture. Length 2 mm. 



Type locality. — Trinidad, St. Augustine, county of St. George, 

 ward of Tacarigua. 



Types. — Holotype and seven paratypes in the British INIuseum, col- 

 lected on December 22, 1923, by C. L. Withycombe ; five paratypes in 

 the Museum of Comparative Zoology and five in the United States 

 National Museum (No. 52535), collected at the type locality and near 

 Tunapuna by Dr. P. J. Darlington and N. A. Weber. 



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



Trinidad: St. Augustine (British Museum; Darlington and Welier, in M.C.Z. 

 and U.S.N.M.), foothills north of Tunapuna (Weber, iu M.C.Z. and U.S.N.M.). 



