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head but more densely and finely; with sliort pubescence. Elytra 

 nearly as broad as head and pronotum, nearly one-fourth longer 

 than broad; with rather dense rounded setiferous tuberculi, witli 

 rather indistinct but granulose ground sculpture between. Abdomen 

 with fine and dense but obsolescent submuricate punctures, without 

 definite ground sculpture. Male., unknown. FemoJc, apical tergiteg 

 iind sternites unmodified. Length, 4 mm. 



Type locality. — Cuba. 



Types. — In the collection of Alexander Bierig. 



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



Cuba: La Lisa (Bierig, 1038), El Mariel (Bierig, 1938), Sierra de Anafe (Bierig. 

 1J)38), Aspiro (Bieriti, 1938), Soledad (Weber, in M.C.Z.). 



Specimens examined. — I have >e<'n only tlie one specimen, from 

 Soledad in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 



Reraarks. — This specimen is assigned to this species without much 

 hesitation. The description given above is that of mj' specimen and 

 has not been compared with the type or changed to fit Bierig's 

 description. 



I have some doubt as to the sex of the specimen I have seen, al- 

 though it has no ai)parent modifications of the abdomen. Sr. Bierig 

 did not record the sex of his specimens. 



The type was found under fallen leaves, and Mr. "Weber's example 

 was collected in a Berlese funnel. 



LIV. Genus SUNIOCHARIS Sharp 



Suniochttiis Sharp, 1880, p. 586. 



Genotype. — jS. modesta Sharp (designated by Blafkwelder, 1939). 



Diagnosis. — Body slender; antennae short, flexile at first joint; 

 labrum indistinctly bidenticulate; mandibles short, acutely triden- 

 tate; third segment of maxillary pal])us nnich enlarged, fourth 

 minute; gular sutures narrowly separated, feebly converging pos- 

 teriorly at least in front; neck very slender; hypomera divided by a 

 diagonal line descending from base to apex; prosternum longitu- 

 dinally carinate at middle, dilated posteriorly under coxae as far as 

 the hypomera but not connate with it; anterior coxae large, promi- 

 nent; mesosternum not carinate; middle coxal cavities continent; 

 abdomen strongly margined; sternites of first and second segments 

 jiot present; sternite of third segment longitudinally carinate at 

 base; front femora dilated; tarsi o-segmeiited, very slender, fourth 

 tarsomere simple. 



Remarks. — Bernhauer has described a subgenus of this as Para- 

 ^'iuniocharis (1933, pp. 519, 520), with genotype Sfmioch/^tris {Para- 

 ^uniochan.3) hoxi Bernhauer (monobasic and designated). I have 



