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Type locality. — St. Thomas. 



Types. — Presumably in the National Museum, Prague. 



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



Cuba: (Schaufuss, 1887), Soledad (Leavitt, in M.C.Z.). 

 Jamaica: Santa Cruz (Blackwelder station 421). 

 Puerto Rico: EI Yunque (Darlington, in M.C.Z.). 

 St. Thomas: (Scliaufuss, 1882a, 1882b; Leng and Mutchler, 1914). 

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

 St. Lucia: ( Blacliwelder station 211D). 

 St. Vincent: (British Museum). 

 Grenada: (British Museum). 



Trinidad: Rio Claro (Weber, in M.C.Z.), x^ripo Valley (Weber, in M.C.Z. and 

 U.S.N.M.). 



Specimens examined. — Three examples in the British Museum, four 

 from the Museum of Comparative Zoology, six in the United States 

 National Museum, and four collected by me in 1935-37. 



Remarks. — Schaufuss evidently expected his formal description of 

 this species to be published (in the Annali del Museo Civico di 

 Storia Naturale di Geneva ) after his short note in the Annales de la 

 Societe Entoniologique de France. However, the former paper was 

 published in March 1882 and the latter in May of the same year. 

 The species was therefore validated in the former, and the references 

 in the Junk Catalog (Bernhauer and Schubert, 1910) should be 

 transposed. 



This species has been collected in rotting banana stalks and flying 

 at dusk and also from deep in a cave. 



4. ESPESON NITENS Fauvel 



Espeson nitens Fauvet>, 1902a, p. 36. — Bernhauer and >Sihu(5ert, 1910. p. 24. — 

 Leng and Mutchler. 1!)14, p. 403. 



Description. — Rufous, elytra testaceous. Head sparsely and finely 

 punctate, eyes large; narrowed posteriorly from the eyes, constricted. 

 PronotuDi much less con.stricted from middle to base; punctured as 

 the head ; disk scarcely depressed at middle. Elytra enlarged, one- 

 fourth longer than pronotum ; punctured three times as sparsely as in 

 crassuhis and somewhat less strongly. Abdomen without visible 

 punctures. Length, 2 mm. (From Fauvel.) 



Type locality. — "Bresil; Guadeloupe." 



Types. — Presumably in the collection of Blanche Rancin, Caen. 



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



Guadeloupe: (Fauvel, 1902; Leng and Mutchler, 1914). 

 South America: Brazil (Fauvel, 1902). 



Specimens examirxd. — I have seen no specimens that I can identify 

 as this species. 



Remarks. — This species has apparently not l^een collected since its 

 description, Fauvel had two specimens. The characters given in 



