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8. SCOPAEUS PYGMAEUS Erichson 



Scopaeus pygmaeus Ebichson, 1840, p. 608. — Bebnhaiteb and Schubert, 1912, 

 p. 251.— Leng and Mutchler, 1914, p. 405. — Wolcott, 1924, p. 78; 1936, 

 p. 197. — Blackwelder, 1939a, p. 106. 



Scopaeus simplicicoUis Cameron, 1913b, p. 348. — Leng and Mutchleb, 1917, p. 

 199.— ScHEEBPELTz, 1933, p. 1269.— Bl.\ck WELDER, 1939a, p. 106. 



Description. — Cinnamomeous, sometimes picescent or paler in part, 

 apical half of each elytron indefinitely bordered with testaceous. 

 Head very feebl}^ emarginate behind, the angles narrowly rounded; 

 eyes separated from base by two and one-half times their length; 

 labrum with two very slender median denticles and with a distinct 

 pair of outer denticles; gular sutures rather narrowly separated 

 anteriorly, feebly divergent posteriorly; finely and densely punctate 

 but with intervals shining ; without ground sculpture. Pronotum one- 

 fifth longer than wide ; anterior angles moderately narrowly rounded, 

 sides in front scarcelj?^ emarginate, feebly arcuate to base; midline 

 feeble, slightly depressed; not distinctly punctate but with dense 

 though not coarse ground sculpture. Elytra not very distinctly 

 punctate but pubescent and minutely and indefinitely broken up, with 

 ground sculpture along suture at base. Male^ fourth and fifth 

 sternites without trace of transverse fold, seventh very slightly 

 emarginate ; eighth sternite with a small abrupt rounded emargination. 

 Female, eighth sternite slightly produced at middle; eighth tergite 

 rounded. Length, 2 to 21/2 I'nrn- 



Ty;pe locality. — Puerto Rico. Of simplicicoUis, Balthazar, Gre- 

 nada. 



Types. — Either in Hope Museum, Oxford, or the Zoologische Mu- 

 seum, Berlin. Of simplicicoUis, in the British Museum. 



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



Jamaica: Spanish Town (Blackwelder station 377), Santa Cruz (Blackwelder 

 station 421), Black River (Blackwelder station 416), May Pen (Blackwelder 

 station 425B), Milk River (Blackwelder station 415). 



Puerto Bico: (Ericlison, 1840; Leng and Mutchler, 1914; Wolcott, 1924, 1936), 

 Guanica (Blaclcwelder station 35.5A), Jayuya (Oakley, in United States 

 National Museum). 



St. Croix: (Blackwelder stations 341, 344; Beatty, in United States National 

 Museum). 



St. Lucia: (Cameron collection). 



Barbados: (Briti-sh Museum). 



St. Vincent: (Cameron, 1913, as sitnplivicolUs; British Museum; Cameron col- 

 lection: Scheerpeltz, 1933; Blackwelder stations 170, 174, 1T6A). 



Grenadines: Mustique (British Museum; Cameron collection). 



Grenada: (Cameron, 1913, as simplicicoUis; Briti.sh Museum; Cameron collec- 

 tion; Scheerpeltz, 1933). 



Specimens examined. — I have examined 122 examples in tlio British 

 Museum (including the type of simplicicoUis) , 29 examples in the col- 



