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abruptly separated from the margin; vertex with a pair of large 

 punctures between the eyes anteriorly; punctation moderate, punc- 

 tures somewhat irregular and separated by two to three times their 

 diameter; with fine scal}^ ground sculpture. Pronotum one-third 

 wider than long, strongly rounded at sides and narrowed posteriorly 

 from middle; feebly impressed at sides basally; disk vaguely flattened 

 or impressed on both sides of midline which is not canaliculate; 

 moderately coarsely punctate; punctures not or only slightly elongate 

 and generally separated by two or three times their diameter; very 

 finely longitudinally stringulose. ^<cutellum with a few moderate 

 punctures. Elytron without trace of discal stria, sutural stria im- 

 pressed; rather finely punctate, punctures separated by three to four 

 times their diameter; with two larger punctures placed diagonally 

 on the disk, one at center and one at apical third near the suture; 

 Aery finely longitudinally strigulose. Ahdominal sternites without 

 diagonal carinae. Length, 21/4 to 314 mm. 



Type locality. — St. Vincent, Leeward side (for both imjyar and 

 claoiger). 



Types. — One specimen labeled type in the British Museum (for each 

 name). 



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



Cuba: (U.S.N.M.) 



Jamaica: Moutego Bay (A.M.N.H.), Spanish Town (Blackwelder station 377), 



Bath in St. Thomas (Blackwelder station 389B). 

 Hispaniola: Haiti. Eunery (Darlington, in M.C.Z.) ; Dominican Repitblic, 



Santiago (Blackwelder station 32A). 

 Montserrat: (Hnbbard, in U.S.N.M.). 



St. Lucia: (Blackwelder stations 207B, 208B, 213, 220D, 220G, 220H, 226, 444D). 

 St. Vincent: (Cameron, 1913, as impar and as claviger; Leng and Mutchler, 



1914, as both). 

 Trinidad: Caura Vulley (Adanison. at Blackwelder station 444A), Arlpo Valley 



(Weber, in M.C.Z. and U.S.N.M.), St. Augustine (Weber, in M.C.Z. ). 



Specimens exaniined. — I have examined the 2 types and 5 other 

 specimens in the British Museum, 2 specimens in the collection of Dr. 

 Cameron, 14 from the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 1 in the 

 American Museum of Natural History, 36 in the United States Na- 

 tional Museum, and 49 collected by me during 1935-37. Six other 

 specimens found in the United States National Museum collection 

 were intercepted by the Plant Quarantine inspectors at Philadelphia 

 and Savannah in banana trash that was presumably from Cuba. 

 There is some possibility of error in this record. 



Remarks. — I am unable to separate the unique type of Lispinm 

 claviger from a large series of L. impar Cameron. The latter is some- 

 what variable in color and punctation, and the types apparently 

 came from the same locality. 



