120 BULLETIN" 18 2, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



4. Antennae geniculate XXV. Osorius 



Antennae not geniculate XXIV. Mimogonus 



5. Anterior coxal cavities closed belunfl_ (Leptochirini) XXI. Leptochirus 



Anterior coxal cavities open behind (Lispinini) — 6 



6. Anterior coxae separated by a flat process of prosternum 10 



Anterior coxae not separated (except sometimes narrowly under the 



coxae) 7 



7. Pronotum half as wide at base as apex (Eleusii)__XIX. Eleusis 



Pronotum not so nnich narrowed at base 8 



8. Gular sutures widely divergent posteriorly (Thoracophobi) 9 



Gular sutures absent, united, or approximate throughout. 



( Paralispini ) XX. Paralispinus 



9. Elytra costate XVIIL Thoracopliorus 



Elytra not costate XVII. Espeson 



10. Head narrowed to a neck behind (Caloceei) XVI. Glyptoma 



Head not forming a neck 11 



11. Pronotum not over half as wide at base as at 



apex (Inopf.plini)--XV. Eleusinus 



Pronotum much more than half as wide at base as at 

 apex (LispiNi) 12 



12. Abdominal sternites with diagonal strigae XIV. Lispinus 



Abdomijial sternites without diagonal strigae XIII. Pseudolispinodes 



XIII. Genus PSEUDOLISPINODES Bernhauer 



Pseudolispinodes Bebnhaueb, 1926a, p. 258. 



Genotype. — Holosus madurensis Bern\\a\ier= Pseudolispinodes ma- 

 durensis (Bernhauer) (desigiinted by Blackwelder, 1942). 



Diagnosis. — Body elongate, subdepressed, glabrous; head not form 

 ing a neck behind; gidar sutures united or closely approximated, 

 antennae 11-segmented, inserted under the anterior corners of the 

 vertex near the eyes; mandibles not prominent; palpi moderately 

 stout, fourth segment of maxillary conical; pronotum more or less 

 narrowed behind, closely applied to the base of the elytra; prester- 

 num spatulate between the coxae; the anterior coxal cavities open 

 beliind; anterior coxae usually small and globose, without a trans- 

 verse sulcus on anterior face; posterior coxae "triangular"; abdomen 

 not margined; sternites of first and second segments not present; 

 sternites without diagonal strigae; tibiae unarmed; tarsi o-segmented. 



Remarks. — None of the species here included has been previously 

 placed in this genus (except in Blackwelder, 1942), but all of them 

 were considered to belong to Lispinus. There is a distinct difference 

 in appearance between Pseudolispinodes and Lispinus., but they may 

 be separated immediately on the presence or absence of the diagonal 

 strigae on the abdominal sternites. 



I have examined 236 examples from the "West Indies and assign 

 them to 9 species of which 6 appear to be new. 



