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strong;, ocular grooves absent; with coarse and somewhat umbilicate 

 punctures scattered particularly at sides, center of vertex impunctate; 

 without ground sculture. Pronotwrn three-tenths longer than wide, 

 widest at anterior angles which are narrowly rounded, thence evenly 

 narrowed to base which is broadly rounded ; wide smooth median area 

 outlined by two series of six or seven punctures, wnth an indistinct 

 lateral series and a few other punctures; without ground sculpture. 

 Elytra with coarse but not dense punctures more or less serial, not 

 evenly spaced. Abdomen with sparse submuricate setigerous punc- 

 tures and indistinct transverse strigulae. Length, 4 to 5 mm. 



Tij'pe locality. — St, John. 



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

 Museum, Berlin. 



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



Cuba: Dn Val, 1857, as ptowticeps), Cayamas (Seliwarz, in U.S.N.M.). 

 Hispaniola: Haiti (Parish, in British Museum), Morne La Selle (Black welder 



station 22A ; Andri' Autlant, in Service Technique). 

 Puerto Rico: Maricao (Blackwelder station 47A), San German (Dozier, in 



U.S.N.M.). 

 St. John: (Brichson, 1839b). 



St. Croix: (Blackwelder stations 331, 335B, 339; H. A. Beatty, in U.S.N.M.). 

 Antigua: (H. E. Box, as Blackwelder station 4440). 

 Montserrat: (Blackwelder stations 2G2, 265B, 270). 

 Dominica: (Blackwelder station 250). 

 St. Vincent: (Blackwelder stations 165, 175, 179; British Museum, as vilis; 



U.S.N.M.). 



Specimens examined. — I have examined 49 examples in the British 

 Museum, 11 in the United States National Museum, and 48 collected by 

 me in 1935-37. 



Re?narks. — The West Indian specimens identified in the British 

 Museum as vilis Sharp differ from the Guatemalan type in part as 

 follows : They have six or seven punctures in the pronotal series in- 

 stead of eight, nine, or ten ; the antcnnal segments are more transverse, 

 the whole more compact; the punctures of .the head are larger and 

 there are more of them on the disk. They seem to agree perfectly with 

 specimens identified as humeralis and puncticeps. This species may 

 be recognized by the coloring of the elytra, although it varies in extent 

 and paleness. 



All my specimens were collected from dung or among decaying 

 forest debris. 



6. XANTHOLINUS CUBENSIS, new species 



DescHption. — Black, jirouotum and abdomen piceous, elytra some- 

 what rufescent and indefinitely paler both at humeri and along apex. 

 Head as wide as long, sides converging in front, basal angles distinct ; 

 eyes not at all jjrominent, at a little more than twice their length from 



