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Specimens examined. — I have seen 8 specimens in the British Mu- 

 seum and 10 from the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 



Remarks. — The original series contains specimens collected on sev- 

 eral days, but without records of their habits. 



6. BLEDIUS JARLA.ICENSIS, new species 



Description. — Piceous, pronotum rufopiceous, elytra piccotesta- 

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

 with small fovea at center of vertex; supraantennal ridges rather 

 feeble; antennal segments 7 to 10 transverse; labrum over twice as 

 wide as long, feebly arcuate in front; third segment of maxillary 

 palpus enlarged and flattened, fourth small; surface with uneven 

 scaly ground sculpture. Pronotmn three-tenths wider than long, 

 polygonal, sides straight and parallel in anterior third thence straight 

 to posterior angles, base divided into three parts; midline rather 

 strongly channeled; with large and shallow but dense punctures; 

 with scaly ground sculpture. Elytra scarcely visibly punctate be- 

 cause of the semirugose unevenness, punctures more distinct poste- 

 riorly; with trace of transverse ground sculpture; broadly rounded 

 apically. Length, II/2 to 2 mm. 



Type locality. — Jamaica, between Spanish Town and Kingston on 

 main road. 



Ty^es.— Holotype and 20 paratypes, U.S.N.M. No. 52376, col- 

 lected by Chapin and Blackwelder in February 1937. Paratypes 

 from type locality and from those listed below. One paratype has 

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

 British Museum. 



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



Cuba: Soledad (Weber, in M.C.Z. and U.S.N.M.). 



Jamaica: Spanish Town (Blackwelder station 377), Santa Cruz (Blackwelder 



station 421), Trinityville (Blackwelder station 428), Troy (Blackwelder 



station 409). 



Specimens examined. — I have seen only the 21 types and 3 examples 

 collected by N. A. Weber. 



Remarks. — This species is separated from the rest of its group only 

 by the details of sculpture and color. 



I have collected it only flying at dusk. 



7. BLEDIUS BEATTYI, new species 



Description. — Piceous, humeral band of elytra and apex of abdomen 

 luteous. Dead flattened above, without depressions except line be- 

 tween vertex and clypeus ; clypeus convex, large ; supraantennal ridges 

 very strong; surface impunctate but with a few roinided tuberculi and 

 coarse scaly sculpture; aniennal segments 7 to 10 transverse; la])rum 

 more than twice as wide as long, subsemicircular, narrower than clyp- 



