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6. PSEUDOLISPINODES TENELLUS (Erichson) 



Lispinus tencJlus Ekichson, 3840, p. 830. — Lacordaire, 1854, p. 120. — Faxtvki, 

 1.S63, pp. 443, 444 ; 1S65, pp. 47, 57 ; lS68b, p. 75 ; 1878c, pp. 13, 15.— Sharp. 

 18S7, pp. 720, 721.— Fi.EUTlAUX and Saixk. 1880, p. 382.— IlAMii/ro.\, IS'.)."), 

 pp. 328, 3.")8.— Sr.ossoN, 1905, p. 69. — BEKNiiAiir.R and Schubert, 1910, p. 23.— 

 Leng and Mutchler, 1914, p. 403.^ — Notman, 1920, p. 693. — Scheerpeltz, 

 1933, p. 1018.— Bernhauer, 1933, p. 326. 



Lispinns tenuis LeConte, 1863, p. 60; 1877, p. 250. — Fatjvel, 1878, p. 15. — 

 ScHWABz, 1878, p. 442. — Henshaw, 1881, p. 222. — Beknhauer and ScHUBEniT, 

 1910, p. 24.— Notman, 1920, p. 693.— Scheerpketz, 1933, p. 1018. 



Lispitiiis flavipeiinis Fauvel, 1865, pp. 47, 58; 1878, p. 15. — Sharp. 1887. pp. 721, 

 722. — Bernhauer and Schubert, 1910, p. 24. 



Lispiitus fauvcli Sharp, 1SS7, pp. 720, 721 (not Lispinus faiireli (Sharp), 1876). — 

 Bernhauer and Schubert, 1910, p. 22. — Camehion, 1913, p. 322. — Leng and 

 MUTCHI.ER, 1914, p. 403.— Bernhauer, 1933, p. 326. 



Description. — Black throiiirlioiit to i-iifopicooup witli proiiotum and 

 elytra rufotestaceous. Head luiirowjy truncate Jii front; the lon<^i- 

 tudinal impressions moderate and attaininjx (lie margin; j)unctures 

 moderate, separated by two (o tlii'ee times their diameter, but some- 

 wliat ol)scured by the dense scaly sculpture. Pronofvin one-fourth 

 wider <han long, stron<j;ly rounded at sides and nanowed ])osteriorly 

 from middle; sides with only a trace of imjn-ession at base; disk 

 even, scul2:)ture obsolescent alon^; midline; punctures moderately 

 coarse, separated by one to two and one-half times their diameter, 

 not elongate; with dense scaly ground .sculpture. ScutdJinn with a 

 few moderate punctures and dense scaly sculpture. Elytron finely 

 punctate, punctures separated by two to six times their diameter; 

 without trace of discal stria, sutural stria well impressed ; with a 

 single very large puncture at middle of disk; with dense scaly ground 

 sculpture. Ahdo^nitial stemites \vithout diagonal carinae. Length, 

 2 to 3 nun. 



Type locality. — ''Columbia et Americae meridionalis ins. St. 

 Johannis et Puerto Rico." Of fauveli^ Teapa, Mexico: of tenuis^ 

 "Southern States," U.S.A.; of favipennis, "Caracas; Teapa, ISIexico 

 (Pilate)." 



Types. — Presumably in either the Hope Museum, Oxford, (n- the 

 Zoologische Museum, Berlin. Of faifveli, in the British Museum; 

 of tenuis, in the Museum of Comparative Zoology: of faviperi.nis, 

 presumably in the collecti(m of Blanche Rancin, Caen, France. 



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



Cuba: (Fauvel, 1863, 1865; Sharp, 1887; Leng and Mutchh^r, 1914, as fativeli), 

 Cayanias (Schwaiz, in IT.S.N.ISI. ; Casey coUectioiU. Ilabaiia (Ca.>*ey 

 collection). 



Jamaica: (Cameron collection), Bath in St. Thomas (Blackwelder stations 



;«9B, 302r., 42r,n). 



Hispaniola: Haiti, Roche Croix (Darlington, in M.C.Z.). 



Puerto Rico: (Erichson, 1840), El Yuuque (Blackwelder station 347A). 



