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St. Vincent: (British Museum). 



Grenada: (Cameron, 1913; British Museum). 



Specimens examined. — I have seen only the 14 examples in the 

 British Museum, of which one was borrowed for further study. 



Remarks. — This species seems amply distinct from the other West 

 Indian species. The pronotal grooves are feebler than in any other 

 of our species. 



I find no record of its habits. 



5. STYLOPODUS PUNCTATUS (Erichson) 



Mcgalops pnnctatus Ertchson, 1840, p. 752.— Lacordaibe, 1854, p. Ill, pi. 15, 

 fig. 4. — Fauvel, 1901, p. 74. — Bernhauer and Schubert, 1911, p. 151. — Cam- 

 EKO-N, 1913, p. 328.— Benick, 1917, pp. 191, 192.— Scheekpeltz, 1933, p. 1143. 



Megalopsidia (s. str.) imnctata (Erichson) Scheerpeltz, 1933, p. 1143. 



Description. — Piceous, elytra fuscous, sometimes with humeral 

 spot and apical sutural spot testaceous. Head with eyes a little nar- 

 rower than elytra ; clypeus truncate but with angles shortly acutely 

 produced and deflected; vertex without linear impressions but with 

 numerous deep coarse punctures; no individual elevations except 

 over base of antennae ; ninth and tenth antennal segments transverse, 

 eighth as broad as long. Pronotum subcylindrical, sides not tubercu- 

 late but with prominences anteriorly ; scarcely wider than long ; with 

 four feeble transverse punctate impressions, first and third inter- 

 rupted at middle, second and third deflected posteriorly on di.sk, 

 punctures coarse, intervals convex, shining. Elytra one-third wider 

 than pronotum, nearly three-tenths wider than long; humeral callus 

 feeble; sutural stria impressed; with two rows of four large punc- 

 tures at center of disk. Abdomen impunctate, shining. Length 

 3 1/2 I'nm. 



Type locality. — Colombia. 



Types. — In either the Hope Museum, Oxford, or the Zoologisch© 

 Museum, Berlin. 



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



Trinidad: Moruga (Blackwelder station 111). 



Curacao: (Fauvel, 1901). 



South America: Brazil (Fauvel, 1901), Colombia (Erichson, 1840; Lacordaire, 



1854; Fauvel, 1901). 

 Central America: Mexico (Fauvel, 1901). 



Specimens examinrd. — I have seen only two specimens from 

 Trinidad. 



Rem/irlcs. — I have little doubt of the identification of this species 

 because of the exact agreement with Erichson's description and the 

 ease of separating it in the key. 



My specimens were found in decaying cocoa pods. 



