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Types. — Possibly in the Zoologische Museum, Berlin. Of uruen- 

 sisy presumably in the collection of Blanche Rancin, Caen, France; 

 of fauveli, in the Sharp collection in the British Museum; of laevi- 

 gatus^ in the Deutsches Entomologische-Institut, Berlin-Dahlem; of 

 paUcscens, in the British Museum; of rufescens, in the Museum of 

 Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Massachusetts; of r'uftis, same as 

 exiguits. 



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



Cuba: Cayarnas (Schwarz, in U.S.N.M.), Caimito, province of Habana (Ram- 

 bousek, in British Museum). 



Jamaica: Trinityville ( Blacliwelder station 428), Milk River (BlacliweUler sta- 

 tion 415), Santa Cruz ( Blackwelder station 421), Spanish Town (Black- 

 welder station 377), Bath in St. Thomas (Blackwelder station 426B), 

 Troy (Blackwelder station 409), Kingston (Blackwelder station 391). 



Hispaniola: Dominican Republic, Jarabacoa (Darlington, in M.C.Z.). 



Puerto Rico: (Erichson, 1840; Lacordaire, 1854; Fauvel, 1865, 1878; Leng and 

 Mutchler, 1914; Wolcott, 1924, 1936), Mayagiiez (Blackwelder station 358B). 



St. Croix: (Blackwelder station 344). 



Guadeloupe: (Fleutiaux and Sall6, 1889; Leng and Mutchler, 1914; A.M.N.H.). 



St. Lucia: (Blackwelder stations 208A, 231, 444G). 



Grenada: (British Museum). 



South America: Brazil (Sharp, 1876, 1887). 



Central America: Guatemala (Sharp, 1887), Mexico (Fauvel, 1865, 1878; 

 Sharp, 1887; British Museum). 



North America: Alabama, Florida, Indiana, Louisiana, Ohio (LeConte, 1863, 

 1877; Fauvel, 1878; Sharp, 1887; Dury, 1902; Blatchley, 1910). 



Orient: India (Cameron, 1930), Ceyix)N (Kraatz, 1859), New Guinea (Fauvel, 

 1878), Hawaiian Islands (Blackburn, 1885), Singapobb (Cameron, 1921), 

 Sumatra (Cameron, 1928). 



Specimens examined. — I have examined 16 examples in the United 

 States National Museum, 1 in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 

 3 in the American Museum of Natural History, 32 collected by me 

 in 1935-37, and 1 from the West Indies in the British Museum. 



Remarks. — The extensive synonymy of this species is undoubtedly 

 due in large measure to the assignment of the genus Paralispinua 

 {Ancaeus) to the Lispini. It is not unlikely that further synonyms 

 will be discovered when a thorough revision of the group is made. 



Lispinus fauveli Sharp (1887) is not the same as the Holotrochus 

 fauveli Sharp (1876). The former is the same as L. ttnellus Erich- 

 son. (This was indicated by Sharp on his type, which is labeled 

 '■''Lispinus tenellus Fauv. Type ex coll. Chevrolat. L. fauveli mihi 

 Type D. S. Teapa Mex. Chevr."). This specimen is probably not 

 the type of L. tenellus Erichson, but it represents at least Fauvel's 

 conception of the species. 77. fauveli Sharp is the same as L. exiguus 

 Erichson, as listed by Bernhauer and Schubert in 1910. 



The variety piceus Fauvel was recorded from Cuba by Leng and 

 Mutchler under the name Lpipinus piceus. This is almost certainly 

 an eri'or and probably represents the true exiguus only. 



