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punctures rather dense but indefinite, intervals irregularly convex. 

 Abdomen very finely, more or less submuricately punctate. Male^ 

 eighth sternite very broadly and feebly emarginate; ninth tergite sub- 

 rectangularly emarginate, declivous, and with four black hairs at each 

 side. Female, eighth sternite arcuate posteriorly; ninth tergite 

 deeply triangularly emarginate, with three or four black hairs at each 

 side. Length, 2^/2 to 31^ mm. 



Type locality. — "Americae ins. St. Johannis" ( = St. John in the 

 Virgin Islands of the U. S. A.). Of delauneyi^ Guadeloupe, Camp- 

 Jacob and Trois Rivieres; of apicalis^ Jamaica, Hope River district; 

 of inearenatus^ caribaeus^ and tfuricaius, Cuba. 



Types. — In either the Hope Museum, Oxford, or the Zoologische 

 Museum, Berlin. Of deluuneyi, possibly in the Musee d'Histoire 

 Natiirelle National, Paris; of apicalis, in collection of Dr. Cameron; of 

 incarenattis, caribaeus, and truncaPiis, in collection of Alexander 

 Bierig, and "cotypes" in the United States National Museum (Nos. 

 52721, 52722, 52720) or the collection of R. E. Blackwelder. 



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



Cuba: Cayamas (Schwarz, in United States National Museum), Sierra Bonilla 

 (Bierig, 1936, as incarenatus) , Sitio Perdido (Bierig, 1936, as incarenatus) , 

 Sierra del Rosario (Bierig, 1936, as incarenatus, truncatus, and caribaeus) , 

 Sierra del Grille (Bierig, 1936, as caribaens), Aspiro, El Sabicu, and 

 El Raugel (Bierig. 1936, as truncatus), Buenos Aires in Trinidad Mountains 

 (Darlington, in M.C.Z. and U.S.N.M.), Soledad (Darlington and Leavitt, 

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



Isle of Pines: Sierra de las Casas (Bierig, 1936, as carilaeus) . 



Jamaica: (Leng and Mutchler, 1917, as apicalis), Hope River (Cameron, 1913, as 

 apicalis). Blue Mountains (Darlington, in M.C.Z. and U.S.N.M.). 



Hispaniola: Haiti, Port-au-Prince (Darlington, in M.C.Z.), Ennery (Darlington, 

 in M.C.Z. and U.S.N.M.) ; Dominican Republic, Sanchez (Darlington, in 

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



Puerto Rico: Villalba (Blackwelder station 64), El Yunque (Darlington, in 

 M.C.Z.) 



St. John: (Erichson, 1840). 



Guadeloupe: Bas.se Terre (Fleutianx and Salle, 1889, as delauneyi; Leng and 

 Mutchler, 1914; Blackwelder station 81). 



Dominica: (Blackwelder station 244A). 



Specimens examined. — ^I have examined 8 examples (including 

 the type of apicalis) in the collection of Dr. Cameron, 18 in the 

 British Museum, 28 from the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 9 

 in the United States National Museum, and 15 collected by me in 

 1935-37. 



Remarks. — ^Although I have not compared any of my specimens 

 directly with the type of apicalis., they differ in no way from the 

 original description except to show a slight variability and indicate 

 a wide range. The examples from Dominica and Guadeloupe seem 

 to lit perfectly the description of delaumeyi but also are identical 



