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one-eleventh longer than wide, widest at apical fourth, distinctly nar- 

 rowed behind ; with scattered punctures similar to head but sparser ; 

 ground sculpture distinct but very fine. Elytra slightly wider than 

 pronotum, three-eighths wider than long; widest at apex, suture 

 barely half as long as total ; not distinctly punctate but with a few 

 fine hairs; surface coarsely coriaceous, very uneven. Ahdomen with 

 sparse but somewhat transversely serial submuricate punctures; with 

 very fine ground sculpture. Male^ seventh sternite longitudinally 

 depressed at middle, very feebly emarginate posteriorly; eighth 

 sternite with a very deep parallel excision rounded at base and with 

 outer angles rounded. Female^ eighth sternite with a rounded emar- 

 gination at each side to form prominent outer angles and a rounded 

 median lobe. Length, 7 to 9 mm. 



Type locality. — "Insula St. Domingo . . ." (=Hispaniola). 



Types. — Presumably in Zoologisk Museum, Helsingfors. 



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



Hispaniola: (Mannerheim, 1830, as island of "St. Domingo"; Leng and Mutcfiier, 

 1914, as island of "Haiti") ; Haiti, Morne La Selle (Blackwelder station 

 22C), Kenskoff (Blackwelder station 23B; Darlington, in M.C.Z. and 

 U.S.N.M.), Furcy (Mann, in M.C.Z.) 



Specimens examined. — I have seen 22 specimens collected by me 

 on Morne La Selle and 1 at KenskofF, as well as 5 from the Museum 

 of Comparative Zoology. 



Remarks. — There can be little doubt that these specimens belong to 

 Mannerheim's species. My specimens were taken at considerable ele- 

 vations, 6,000 feet on Morne La Selle and close to 4,000 feet at 

 Kenskoff. 



All the previous published records refer to the island as a whole 

 (under the name of Haiti or Santo Domingo), and it is probable 

 that the specimens came from Haiti. If the species is found else- 

 where in the island it will probably be in the north-central moun- 

 tains of Haiti or the higher central range of the Dominican Republic. 



My examples were all taken while beating trees and shrubs at the 

 edge of the jungle. 



XLV. Genus HOMOEOTARSUS Hochhuth 



Eomoeotarsus Hochhuth, 1851, p. 84. 



Homaeotarsus Lacordairk, 1854, p. 89 (misspelling). 



Spirosoma Motschtjlsky, 1858b, p. 200. 



Subgenus Hesperohimn Casey, 1886a, p. 33. 



Subgenus E'ucrypiin<i Caskt, 1905, pp. 24, 28. 



Subgenus Gasfrolobium Casey, 1905, p. 81. 



Subgenus Honioeohium Blackwetdee, 1989a, p. 96, 114, 118. 



Subgenus Nrmoeotus Biackwetder, 1939a, p. 96, 114, 120. 



Genotypes. — H. chaudoiri Hochhuth (monobasic). Of Spirof^om/i, 

 8. fulvescens Motschulsky (monobasic) ; of Eucryptina^ CryptohiuTn 



