330 BULLETIN 182, UNITED STATES iSATIONAL MUSEUM 



agree with my Trinidad specimens. The obsolete fovea of the fifth 

 sternite of the male is quite distinctive, regardless of the presence 

 or absence of the lobe. This species belongs in the subgenus 

 Gastrolohium. 

 My specimens were found beneath stones at the edge of streams. 



4. HOMOEOTARSUS TESTACEIPES (Bierig) 



'{JastroloMum testaccipes Biebig, 1935b, p. 39, pi. 4, figs. 5, 6. 

 (Jastrolobium congener Bikkig, IDSrib, p. 40. 



Description. — Black, sometimes more or less rufescent. Head with 

 moderate pimctures, each more abrupt posteriorly, narrowly sepa- 

 rated basally but by about their diameter on vertex and still more 

 sparsely in front; with very dense and strong ground sculpture 

 throughout ; eyes in front of midline, at over twice their length from 

 base; basal segment of antennae not quite so long as distance between 

 antennae. Pionotum with irregular impunctate median stripe, rest 

 with moderate umbilicate punctures, usually separated by more than 

 their diameter and somewhat obscured by the coarse dense ground 

 sculpture. Elytra with moderately coarse deep punctures, abrupt 

 only in front, the intervals flat, without serial arrangement; surface 

 exceedingly minutely coriaceous. Male dimorphic, fouvih steriut'^ 

 with a transverse fovea; fifth with a small circular fovea, with or 

 without a narrow acuminate lobe, whicli extends to the seventh ster- 

 :nite. Female., sternites not modified. Length, 8 to 10 mm. 



Type locality. — Cuba, "Cercania de Guanabo; Caimito del Guaya- 

 bal." Of congener^ Cuba, "Sierra del Rosario, Rio Taco-Taco." 



Types. — In collection of Alexander Bierig (for both). (Three "co- 

 types" of congener are in the United States National Museum, No. 

 52727.) 



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



Cuba: Guanabo (Biorig, 1935), Caimito del Guayabale (Bierig, 1935), Sierra del 

 liosario (Bierig, 1935, as congener), Aspiro (Bierig, in U.S.N.M., as congener), 

 Buenos Aires, Trinidad Mountains (Darlington, in M.C.Z. and U.S.N.M.), 

 Maisi, Oriente (Darlington, in M.C.Z. and U.S.N.M.), Ilangel Mountains, 

 Pinar del Rio (Darlington, in M.C.Z.), Soledad (J. G. INIyers and Dariington, 

 in M.C.Z. and U.S.N.M.). 



Hispaniola: Haiti, Enuery (Darlington, in M.C.Z. and U.S.N.IM.), mountains 

 near Port-au-Prince (Darlington, in M.C.Z. and U.S.N.M.), nortlieast foolhills 

 of the Massif de La Hotte (Darlington, in M.C.Z. and U.S.N.M.), Camp Perrin 

 (Darlington, in M.C.Z.) ; Dominican Returlk:!, Villa Altagracia (Darlington, 

 in M.C.Z. and U.S.N.M.), Puerto Plata (Darlington, in M.C.Z. and U.S.N.M.), 

 Coustanza (Darlington, in M.C.Z.). 



Specimens examined. — Beside the paratypes of congener^ I have 

 seen 33 examples from the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 



Rem.ar'ks. — Although I have not seen examples identified by Bierig 

 as testaccipes., the three examples of cotigcner, in conjunction with the 



