160 BULLETIN 182, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



This species has been taken flying at dusk, under bark of silk 

 cotton trees, in fungus, and in decaying cocoa pods. 



3. PARALISPINUS RULOMUS, new species 



Description. — Head and abdomen piceotestaceous, pronotum testa- 

 ceous, elytra piceous. Head broadly rounded in front; longitudinal 

 impressions moderate, not sharply separated from margin; scarcely 

 visibly punctate ; feebly strigulose, at places appearing vaguely scaly. 

 Pronotum nearly one- fourth wider than long; sides scarcely nar- 

 rowed from apex to middle, but strongly from middle to base; with 

 foveae at posterior angles; midline vaguely channeled at base; punc- 

 tures excessively fine; very finely longitudinally strigulose. Scutel- 

 lum smooth, impunctate. Elytron with sutural stria feebly im- 

 pressed; without trace of discal stria; impunctate except for a 

 moderate but broadly impressed puncture at center of disk; longi- 

 tudinal sculpture feeble, occasionally united, but not scaly. Length, 

 2 mm. 



Type locality. — Jamaica, 12% miles (by road) from Kingston on 

 road from Gordon Town to Newcastle, parish of St, Andrew. 



Types.— Roioiy^Q, U.S.N.M. No. 52378, collected February 4, 1937, 

 by Chapin and Blackwelder; two paratypes from Fern Gully and two 

 from Troy. 



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



Jamaica: Gordon Town (Blackwelder station 382B), Fern Gully (Blackwelder 

 station 374), Troy (Blackwelder station 409) 



Specimens examined. — I have seen only the five types. 



Remarks. — Although this species is distinguished most readily 

 from exigvus by its color pattern, it differs also in the shape of the 

 pronotum and the nuich narrower body. Inasmuch as I find very 

 little variation in these characters and in the color of eccigtnis, I 

 believe this will prove to be distinct, and I therefore give it a name 

 even at the risk of making another synon3'm of exiguus. 



The type was taken under bark at an elevation of about 2,500 

 feet, and the others were caught flying at dusk. 



4. PARALISPINUS CREPUSCULUS, new species 



Description. — Rufotestaceous throughout. Head moderately trun- 

 cate in front; depressions unusually long, moderately well marked, 

 feebly separated from the margin in front; finely punctate, punc- 

 tures separated by two to four times their diameter, sparser 

 anteriorly; antennae unusually thick, segments 4 to 11 distinctly 

 transverse; with very fine and indistinct ground sculpture, at times ap- 

 pearing scaly. Pronotum only one-fifteenth wider than long, nar- 



