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Types. — 111 the collection of Sr. Bierig. One panitype is in the 

 collection of Dr. Cameron and one is in the United States National 

 Musenm (No. 52725). 



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



Cuba: (Cameron collection), Habana (Bierig, 1934), Rio Ariguaiiabo (Bierig, 

 1934), Cainiiro del Guayabal (Bierig, 1934), Bavagua (Christenson, in 

 r.S.N.M.), Sulednrl (Weber, in M.C.Z.). 



Specimens examined. — I did not see the "cotype" supposed to be 

 in Dr. Cameron's collection, but I have studied one in the United 

 States National Museum: also two examples in the National Museum 

 aiul one specimen from the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 



Remarks. — The characters of the tei-gites of the female distinguish 

 this species readily. The specimen from Soledad does not show the 

 emargination of the seventh tergite. There is some difference in the 

 shape of the head between the two Baragua specimens, in one being 

 truncate, in the other distinctly rounded. The Soledad specimen 

 agrees with the latter in this character. This species was described 

 in the genus Scopaeopsis, which is here considered to be a subgenus of 

 jScopamts. The shape of the head and the characters of the male, how- 

 ever, indicate that it })(')( )ngs in the subgenus Scopaeus s. str. 



Bierig records the species as follows: "Vive en orillas humedas y 

 parec ser raro" ; the other specimens were taken at light or by sweeping. 



16. SCOPAEUS BOXI, new species 



Description. — Head and pronotum rufous or piceorufous, elytra 

 testaceous to castaneous, indefinitely paler at apex, abdomen castane- 

 ous. Head truncate behind, almost rounded, the angles moderately 

 rounded; eyes separated from base by less than twice their length; 

 labrum with two denticles at middle and a small triangular additional 

 denticle at each side; gular sutures moderately separated, most ap- 

 proximate a little before middle, very feebly diverging posteriorly; 

 finely and densely punctured, but irregularly and with vague ground 

 sculpture. Pronotum one-fourth longer than wide; anterior angles 

 almost completely rounded fi-om neck to sides, which are nearly 

 straight; with trace of smooth midline; punctures fine and dense; 

 without ground sculpture. Elytra with punctures indistinct but dense, 

 the surface appearing subasperate. Male, fourth and fifth sternites 

 with a transverse fold, seventh not emarginate, eighth sinuate at mid- 

 dle but not distinctly emarginate. Female^ eighth sternite rounded; 

 eighth tei-gite a little prominent at middle. Length, 2 to 2^/^ mm. 



Type locality. — St. Lucia, Roseau River, at elevation of 200 feet, 

 about 6 miles above its mouth. 



Types. — Holotype, male, and tliree paratypes, U. S. N. M. No. 52418, 

 collected by me on March 29, 1936. 



