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tures ; punctures about as on head but less dense and more irregularly- 

 placed ; without distinct ground sculpture, but with surface through- 

 out minutely uneven. Klytra shorter and scarcely wider than pro- 

 notum, narrower than the abdomen, closely appressed ; with punctures 

 about as coarse as on head but denser and less regularly shaped, not 

 at all serial; ground sculpture as on pronotum. i/aZe, with a small 

 circular pale area (scarcely a fovea) at center of posterior margin of 

 fifth sternite; seventh with punctation and vestiture finer and denser 

 along middle posteriorly; eighth with a narrow attenuated emargina- 

 tion, a little deeper than -wide at apex, at least three times as deep 

 as wide at middle. Female^ sternites unmodified. Length, 7i/^ mm. 



TyjJe local if y.—Ri\ii\, :Morne La Hotte, 5,000 to 7,800 feet. 



Types. — Holotype, male, in Museum of Comparative Zoology; para- 

 type, female, in United States National Museum (No. 62506) ; collected 

 on October 16-17, 1934 by Dr. P. J. Darlington. 



Records. — The following is the only record known to me: 



Hispaniola: Haiti, Morne La Hotte (Darlington, in M.C.Z. and U.S.N.M.). 



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



Remarhs. — This species has the aspect of a subterranean insect. 

 It may be distinguished by the peculiar male characters which are 

 unique in the Crypt obia of the West Indies. 



It was taken at a high altitude (for the West Indies), probably 

 under ground cover. 



6. UIOCRYPTA CUBENSIS, new species 



Description. — Rufopiceous, the head and pronotum sometimes less 

 rufescent. Head with eyes small, separated from base by over four 

 times their diameter, by two times from apex; basal segment of an- 

 tenna three-fifths as long as head, a little longer than distance betvvccn 

 them; antennal grooves feeble; with moderately coarse but sparse and 

 sometimes umbilicate punctures interspersed with minute punctures; 

 with dense ground sculpture throughout (obsolescent in small area 

 of vertex between the eyes). Pronotum with irregular impunctate 

 median band marked by punctures that are only partly serial ; punc- 

 tures a little less coarse than on head, sparse and seldom serial ; with 

 fine but distinct ground sculpture throughout. Elytra shorter and 

 scarcely wider than pronotum, narrower than the abdomen, closely 

 appressed ; with punctures about as coarse as on head but denser and 

 less regularly shaped, not at all serial; without distinct ground sculp- 

 ture, but surface strongly coriaceous. Male., fifth sternite with a small 

 median oval fovea, posterior fifth of margin prolonged in a narrow 

 abrupt but tapering lobe which extends to middle of seventh; eighth 

 not distinctly emarginate. Female^ fifth sternite with a central smooth 

 area rising to an abrupt semicircular posterior rim. Length 8V4 mm. 



