284 BULLETIN 1S2, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



the head and the male characters indicate that this species belongs 

 in the subgenus Scopdeus s. str. 



My specimen was taken from under pebbles or flying at the bank 

 of a river. 



5. SCOPAEUS RULOMUS, new species 



Description. — Testaceous with abdomen somewhat darker. Head 

 feebly emarginate behind, the angles moderately rounded ; eyes very 

 small, separated from base by nearly three times their length; labrum 

 with two small denticles at middle, and with a very indistinct smaller 

 denticle at each side, the median pair enlarged at base: guiar sutures 

 moderately separated in front and feebly diverging po-^teriorly ; 

 punctures fine and irregular, separated by their diameter by flat 

 shining intervals. Pronotum about one-third longer than wide, an- 

 terior angles moderately narrowly rounded; sides in front feebly 

 emarginate, nearly straight to the rounded posterior angles; midline 

 very vague; punctures a little sparser and less distinct than on head: 

 surface similarly shining. Elytra not distinctly punctate but with 

 veiy irregular and almost asperate sculpture, though surface is shin- 

 ing. Male, fourth and fifth sternites with a transverse fold widely 

 interrupted at middle to form two separated pairs of foveae; eighth 

 sternite truncate and with a broad and shallow acuminate emargina- 

 tion. Female^ eighth sternite rounded ; eighth tergite unmodified- 

 Length, 13/4 mm. 



Type locality. — Jamaica, between Bath and Lower White Horses 

 by way of Sunning Hill. Trinity ville, and Cedar Hill. 



Types. — Holotype, male, and one paratype, female, U.S.N.M. No. 

 .52421, 'collected by Chapin and Blackwelder on February 28, 1937, 

 and February 2. 1937. 



Records. — ^Tlie following are the records known < o me : 



Jamaica: Trinityville (Blackwolder station 428), Fern Gully (Blnck-vt^idor sta- 

 tion :?74). 



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



Remarks. — This is a very small and fragile species which belongs 

 in the subgenus Scopaeii-s s. str. It is chiefly remarkable for the 

 great distance between the eyes and the base of the head. 



The types were both taken flying at dusk. 



«. SCOPAEUS ANTENNALIS Cameron 



Scoparus nntrnnnJis Cameron. l{)l.".l), p. .'UO. — liKNu and Mutchi.kr. \U\7, p. 190. 

 f^cnpacus antoDwUiH SrHEKKi«Ki.Tz. ItR^, p. 1265 (misspelling). 

 SropaeuH hico1o7-ic'irnis BiKRir,. MS. 



Description. — Piceous to piceocastaneous or ca.staneous. Head 

 slightly emarginate behind, angles moderately rounded; labrtnn with 

 two denticles separated by a small rounded emargination, and with 



